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سَابِرِىٌّ

Root: سبر

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سَابِرِىٌّ A coat of mail made of slender rings, and strongly: so called in relation to the king Sáboor.
2 Hence, or from Sáboor, a province of Persia, A thin, or delicate, kind of garment or cloth, of excellent quality: and anything thin, or delicate. Whence the prov., عَرْضٌ سَابِرِيٌّ A slight exhibition: [see variations of this phrase in art. عرض, under عَرَضَ الشَّىْءَ:] said to him to whom a thing is shown in a slight manner: because the garment or cloth called سابرىّ, being of the best of qualities, is desired when exhibited in the slightest manner. (S, K. [See the first paragraph in art. عرض; and see also عَرَضَ عَلَىَّ سَوْمَ عَالَّةٍ in the first paragraph of art. سوم.])
3 A certain sort of dates, of good quality. It is said that the best of the dates in El-Koofeh are the نِرْسِيَان and the سابرىّ.
4 نَخْلَةٌ سَابِرِيَّةٌ A palmtree of which the unripe dates are yellow and somewhat long.
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