صَبْرٌ
Root: صبر
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صَبْرٌ
[Verbal.Noun of 1, q. v.
2 Used as a simple subst.,] Patience, or endurance; contr. of جَزَعٌ: or restraint of oneself, or of one's soul, from impatience.
3 شَهْرُ الصَّبْرِ The month of fasting: fasting being called صَبْر because it is self-restraint from food and beverage and sexual intercourse.
4 [قَتَلَهُ صَبْرًا, and قُتِلَ صَبْرًا: see 1.]
5 يَمِينُ الصَّبْرِ The oath for which the judge, or governor, [in the CK الحُكْمُ is erroneously put for الحَكَمُ,] holds one in custody until he swears it: or the oath that is obligatory upon the swearer, and which the swearer is compelled to take, he being confined by the Sultán until he do so: such an oath is also termed يَمِينٌ : [i. e.] the term مَصْبُورَةٌ is applied to an oath, meaning one on account of which a man is confined, in order to make him swear it; but the man being مَصْبُور, and not the oath, the latter is thus
6 [حَلَفَ صَبْرًا: see 1.]
def.2 See also صَبِرٌ.
2 Used as a simple subst.,] Patience, or endurance; contr. of جَزَعٌ: or restraint of oneself, or of one's soul, from impatience.
3 شَهْرُ الصَّبْرِ The month of fasting: fasting being called صَبْر because it is self-restraint from food and beverage and sexual intercourse.
4 [قَتَلَهُ صَبْرًا, and قُتِلَ صَبْرًا: see 1.]
5 يَمِينُ الصَّبْرِ The oath for which the judge, or governor, [in the CK الحُكْمُ is erroneously put for الحَكَمُ,] holds one in custody until he swears it: or the oath that is obligatory upon the swearer, and which the swearer is compelled to take, he being confined by the Sultán until he do so: such an oath is also termed يَمِينٌ : [i. e.] the term مَصْبُورَةٌ is applied to an oath, meaning one on account of which a man is confined, in order to make him swear it; but the man being مَصْبُور, and not the oath, the latter is thus
6 [حَلَفَ صَبْرًا: see 1.]
def.2 See also صَبِرٌ.
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