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دَابِرٌ

Root: دبر

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دَابِرٌ act. part. n. of دَبَرَ, Following behind the back; following the back; following, with respect to place, and also with respect to time, and also with respect to rank or station. [Hence,] دَابِرُ قَوْمٍ The last that remains of a people or party; he who comes at the end of a people or party; as also ; which likewise signifies those who remain after them: and دَابِرَةٌ [so in the TA, but accord. to the T دَابِرٌ, which I think the right reading,] signifies one who comes after; or follows, another. And الدَّلْوُ بَيْنَ قَابِلٍ وَدَابِرٍ The bucket is between one who advances with it to the well and one who goes back, or returns, with it to the wateringtrough. And جَعَلَهُ دَابِرَ أُذُنِهِ: see دَبْرٌ. And أَمْسِ الدَّابِرُ and Yesterday that is past: the epithet being here a corroborative. You say, صَارُوا كَأَمْسِ الدَّابِرِ [They became like yesterday that is past]. And هَيْهَاتَ ذَهَبَ كَمَا ذَهَبَ أَمْسِ الدَّابِرُ [Far distant is he, or it! He, or it, hath gone like as hath gone yesterday that is past].
2 Also An arrow that passes forth from the butt, [or passes beyond it, ] and falls behind it: you say سَهْمٌ دَابِرٌ, and سِهَامٌ دَابِرَةٌ and دَوَابِرُ.
3 An arrow that does not win [in the game called المَيْسِر]; contr. of قَابِلٌ.
4 The last arrow remaining in the quiver.
5 The last of anything; and so دَابِرَةٌ : [see also دُبُرٌ:] and the root, stock, race, or the like; syn. أَصْلٌ. One says, قَطَعَ ٱللّٰهُ دَابِرَهُمْ May God cut off the last that remain of them. And قَطَعَ ٱللّٰهُ دَابِرَهُ May God cut off the last of him, or it: or may God extirpate him. And in the Kur [vi. 45] it is said, فَقُطِعَ دَابِرُ القَوْمِ And the last of the people were extirpated. And in a trad., يُقْطَعُ بِهِ دَابِرُهُمْ All of them shall be cut off thereby, not one remaining.
6 See also دَبِرٌ, last sentence.
7 As an epithet applied to a camel: see غُدَّةٌ.


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