غُبَيْرَآءُ
Root: غبر
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غُبَيْرَآءُ
[dim. of غَبْرَآءُ]: see أَغْبَرُ, in two places.
2 Also A certain plant [or tree], well known, growing in the plains; [the service-tree, or sorb: or its fruit: so called in the present day: as is also the “ inula undulata: ”] and so غَبْرَآءُ : so called because of the colour of its leaves; the fruit of which, when it appears, becomes intensely red: or the former is the tree, and the latter is the fruit: or the converse is the case: the sing. and pl. are alike: all this says AHn, in his “ Book of Plants. ”
def.2 Also A kind of beverage, (شَرَاب, S, K, or نَبِيذ, Msb,) which intoxicates, made by the Abyssinians, from ذُرَة [or millet]; also called سُكُرْكَة: or wine [or cider] made from the wellknown fruit of the same name [the service-apple]. [See also مِزْرٌ.] It is said in a trad., إِيَّاكُمْ وَٱلغُبَيْرَآءَ فَإِنَّهَا خَمْرُ العَالَمِ Avoid ye the beverage called غبيراء; for it is like the wine that is commonly known of all men: there is no distinction to be made between the two drinks with respect to prohibition. In another trad., it is called غُبَيْرَآءُ السَّكَرِ; to distinguish it from a kind of غبيراء made of dates, or dried dates.
2 Also A certain plant [or tree], well known, growing in the plains; [the service-tree, or sorb: or its fruit: so called in the present day: as is also the “ inula undulata: ”] and so غَبْرَآءُ : so called because of the colour of its leaves; the fruit of which, when it appears, becomes intensely red: or the former is the tree, and the latter is the fruit: or the converse is the case: the sing. and pl. are alike: all this says AHn, in his “ Book of Plants. ”
def.2 Also A kind of beverage, (شَرَاب, S, K, or نَبِيذ, Msb,) which intoxicates, made by the Abyssinians, from ذُرَة [or millet]; also called سُكُرْكَة: or wine [or cider] made from the wellknown fruit of the same name [the service-apple]. [See also مِزْرٌ.] It is said in a trad., إِيَّاكُمْ وَٱلغُبَيْرَآءَ فَإِنَّهَا خَمْرُ العَالَمِ Avoid ye the beverage called غبيراء; for it is like the wine that is commonly known of all men: there is no distinction to be made between the two drinks with respect to prohibition. In another trad., it is called غُبَيْرَآءُ السَّكَرِ; to distinguish it from a kind of غبيراء made of dates, or dried dates.
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