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صُبْرٌ ذ (S, M, Msb, K) and ↓ صِبْرٌ (M, Msb, K) The side of a thing: (S, M, K:) or a side rising above the rest of a thing: (Msb:) or its upper part, or top: (TA:) and the edge of a thing: (S, M, K:) and its thickness: formed by transposition from بُصْرٌ: (S:) pl. أًصْبَارٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) and pl. pl. أَصْبَارَةٌ. (Msb.) أَصْبَارٌ signifies The sides of a vessel, (S,) and of a grave. (TA.) And you say, He filled the drinking-cup, (S, M, A, K,) and the measure, (A, TA,) إِِلَى أَصْبَارِهِ, (S, M, A, K,) to its top, (S, M, K,) as also الى أَصْمَارِهِ; (S;) or to its uppermost parts; (TA;) or to its edges. (A.) And أَخَذَهُ بِأَصْبَارِهِ He took it altogether. (S, M, A, Msb, * K.) And لَقِىَ الشِّدَّةَ بِأَصْبَارِهَا (assumed tropical:) He met with complete distress, or adversity. (As, S.) And in a trad., the tree called سِدْرَةُ المُنْتَهَى is said to be صُبْرَ الجَنَّةِ in the highest part of Paradise. (A, TA.) ― -b2- Also the former, (S, M, K,) and ↓ صُبُرٌ , (M, K,) Land in which are pebbles, (S, M, K,) not rugged. (S, M.) Hence, ↓ أُمُّ صَبَّارٍ , q. v. (S, M.) ― -b3- See also صَبِيرٌ, in two places.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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