كَبُرَ
Root: كبر
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 كَبُرَ الأَمْرُ [The affair, or case, was, or became, of great moment; it was, or became, momentous: or it signifies as in the phrase next following].
3 كَبُرَ عَلَيْهِ الأَمْرُ The affair, or case, was, or became, difficult, hard, severe, grievous, distressing, afflictive, troublesome, or burdensome, to him or in its effect upon him; syn. شَقَّ. In this sense the verb is used in the Kur, x, 72, and xlii, 11. And so in the Kur again, xvii, 53, أَوْ خَلْقًا مِمَّا يَكْبُرُ فِى صدُورِكُمْ, meaning, أَوْخَلْقًا مِمَّا يَكْبُرُ عِنْدَكُمْ عَنْ قُبُولِ الحَيَاةِ [Or a created thing of those which are too difficult in your minds to receive life], as being the thing most remote from capability to receive life. [This signification is from the primary application of the verb.]
def.2 كَبِرَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun كِبَرٌ and مَكْبِرٌ, He became full-grown, or old, or advanced in age. Hence the prov., كَبِرَ عَمْرُو عَنِ الطَّوْقِ: see art. طوق.]
2 [In modern Arabic, and, I believe, sometimes, in classic authors, it also signifies He became big; (said of a boy, or child, in the TA in art. رع, &c.;) i. e. attained to full growth: and to adolescence: and to puberty: see كَبِيرٌ.] This form of the verb and that first mentioned are sometimes erroneously used, each for the other, by persons of distinction as well as by the vulgar.
3 See كَبْرَةٌ, below.
def.3 كَابَرْتُهُ فَكَبَرْتُهُ, Present.T of the latter, ـُ: see 3.
2 كَبَرَهُ بِسَنَةٍ, Present.T ـُ He exceeded me in age by a year. And مَا كَبَرَنِى إِلَّا بِسَنَةٍ He did not exceed me in age save by a year.
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