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خَبَارٌ

Root: خبر

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خَبَارٌ Soft land or soil, in which are burrows and hollows; as also خَبْرَآءُ : or soft land or soil, in which beasts sink and are embarrassed: or crumbling ground, in which the feet of beasts sink. It is said in a prov., مَنْ تَجَنَّبَ الخَبَارَ أَمِنَ العِثَارَ [He who avoids soft ground in which the feet sink will be secure from stumbling].
2 Also Heaps of earth, or dust, collected at the roots of trees.
3 And Burrows of جِرْذَان [or large field-rats]: [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة.


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