وبر

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Arabic

Etymology

From the root و ب ر (w-b-r) denoting a camel with a lot of hair or fur.

Pronunciation

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Verb

وَبِرَ (wabira) I (non-past يَوْبَرُ (yawbaru), verbal noun وَبَر (wabar))

  1. to be rich in hair

Conjugation

Noun

 وبر on Arabic Wikipedia

وَبَر (wabarm (plural أَوْبَار (ʔawbār))

  1. fine hair (specifically from camels and goats, specifically from the hump; used for the cloths and tents of nomads from yore; distinguished from the مَدَر (madar, loam) of town buildings)
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 54:134:
      ثُمَّ يُرْسِلُ اللّٰهُ مَطَرًا لَا يَكُنُّ مِنْهُ بَيْتُ مَدَرٍ وَلَا وَبَرٍ فَيَغْسِلُ الأَرْضَ حَتَّى يَتْرُكَهَا كَالزَّلَفَةِ
      ṯumma yursilu llāhu maṭaran lā yakunnu minhu baytu madarin walā wabarin fayaḡsilu l-ʔarḍa ḥattā yatrukahā ka-z-zalafati
      Then God will send rain and there will be no brickhouse and no tent and he washes the earth, so that he leaves it blank like a nacre-shell.

Declension

Noun

وَبْر
 وبريات on Arabic Wikipedia

وَبْر (wabrm (plural وُبُور (wubūr) or وِبَار (wibār) or وِبَارَة (wibāra))

  1. klipdachs, dassie, hyrax, daman (Hyracoidea, of which the rock hyrax Procavia capensis is found in the Arabian peninsula and Greater Syria)

Declension

Derived terms

Adjective

وَبِر (wabir) (feminine وَبِرَة (wabira), elative أَوْبَر (ʔawbar))

  1. hairy

Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 43
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “وبر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 429
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “وبر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1475–1476
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “وبر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1226
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “وبر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1371