Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مِئْبَرَةٌ

Root: ابر

Full Definition

مِئْبَرَةٌ and مِئْبَرٌ and إِبْرَةٌ Malicious and mischievous misrepresentation; calumny; or slander; and the marring, or disturbance, of the state of union or concord or friendship or love between a people or between two parties: pl. مَآبِرٌ. You say, خَبُثَتْ مِنْهُمُ المَخَابِرْ فَمَشَتْ بَيْنَهُمُ المَآبِرْ [Their internal states, or qualities, became bad, or evil, or corrupt, and in consequence calumnies became current among them].


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