صُنْبُورٌ

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صُنْبُورٌ A solitary palm-tree, apart from others, (AO, S in art. صبر, and M, A in art. صبر, and K,) the lower part of which becomes slender, (S and A in art. صبر,) and stripped of the external parts [or the stumps of the branches]: and a palm-tree slender in its lower part, and bared of the stumps of its branches, and scanty in its fruit; as also صُنْبُورَةٌ : and a palm-tree that comes forth from the root, or lower part, of another palm-tree, without being planted: or a little palm-tree that does not grow from its mother-tree: and the lowest part of a palm-tree, from which the roots branch off: and branches that come forth from the lowest part of a palm-tree: or a branch that comes forth from the trunk of a palmtree, not from the ground: this is [said to be] the original signification: or branches that come forth from the trunk of a palm-tree, not having their roots in the ground: such branches weaken the mother-tree, which is cured by pulling them off: the pl. is صَنَابِيرُ and صَنَابِرُ : and the صَنَابِير are also called رَوَاكِيبُ and عِقَّانٌ.
2 Hence, applied to a man, Solitary; lonely: or solitary, or lonely, without offspring and without brother: or solitary, weak, vile, or ignominious, having no family nor offspring nor assistant: or having no offspring, nor kinsfolk or near relations, nor assistant, whether of strangers or relations: and weak: and mean, or ignoble. See also صَنْبَرٌ. And A young, or little, or weak, boy, or child. It was applied as an epithet to Mohammad, by the unbelievers, as also [its dim.] صُنَيْبِيرٌ , or they called him صُنْبُورٌ, meaning that he had no offspring nor brother, so that, when he should die, his name would be lost; likening him to a [solitary] palm-tree, of which the lower part had become slender, and the branches few, and which had become dry; or to a branch growing from the trunk of a palm-tree.

def.2 The tube, or pipe, that is in the [kind of leathern vessel, or bag, for water, called] إِدَاوَة, of iron, or of lead, or brass, or of other material, from which one drinks.
2 The [aperture called] مَثْعَب of a watering-trough or tank [from which the water runs out]: or the hole, or perforation, thereof, from which the water issues when it is washed.
3 The pipe of copper or brass by which the water runs from one tank to another in a both.
4 And The mouth of a قَنَاة [or water-pipe].

def.3 Also A cold wind: and a hot wind. See also صِنَّبْرٌ.
2 And A calamity, or misfortune.

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