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بُورٌ بذر بذور A bad, or corrupt, man; (S, A, K;) and one (M, K) in a state of perdition; (S, M, A, K;) in whom is no good; (S, K;) originally an inf. n., (Fr, T,) and [therefore, as an epithet,] applied also to a female, (AO, T, S, M, K,) and to two persons, and more: (AO, T, M, K:) [but see what here follows:] ↓ بَائِرٌ , also, signifies bad, or corrupt; destitute of good; (Zj, M;) a man in a state of perdition; (AO, T, S;) and its pl., (K,) or rather quasi-pl., (M, TA,) is ↓ بَوْرٌ , (M, K,) like as نَوْمٌ is of نَائِمٌ, and صَوْمٌ of صَائِمٌ; (M, TA;) and another pl. of the same is بُورٌ, (AO, T, S, M,) like as حُولٌ is of حَائِلٌ, or, accord. to some, as Akh states, this is a dial. var., not a pl., of بَائِرٌ. (S.) ― -b2- See also بَوْرٌ, in three places. -A2- إِِنَّهُمْ لَفِى حُورٍ وَ بُورٍ (A, TA [but in the latter, جور is put for حَور]) Verily they are in a state of deficiency, or detriment. (TA.) See also بَائِرٌ. [And see حَوْرٌ.] You say also, ذَهَبَ فُلَانٌ فِى ↓ الحَوارِ وَ البَوَارِ Such a one went away in a defective and bad state. (L, TA in art. حور.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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