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1 أَبَرَ الكَلْبِ ذ , (S, K,) aor. اَبِرَ and اَبُرَ , (K,) inf. n. أَبْرٌ, (TA,) He gave the dog, to eat, a needle in bread: (S, K:) and [app., in like manner, أَبَرَ الشَّاةَ he gave the sheep, or goat, to eat, a needle in its fodder: for you say,] أُبِرَتِ الشَّاة the sheep, or goat, ate a needle in the fodder. (A.) ― -b2- أَبَرَتْهُ العَقْرَبُ (tropical:) The scorpion stung him with the extremity of its tail. (S, M, A, K.) ― -b3- أَبَرَهُ (tropical:) He spoke evil of him behind his back, or in his absence, or otherwise, with truth, or though it might be with truth; or defamed him; (IAar, T, A, K;) and annoyed him, or hurt him. (IAar, T, A.) -A2- أَبَرَ, (T, S, A, Msb, K,) aor. اَبِرَ and اَبُرَ , inf. n. أَبْرٌ (M, Msb, K) and إِِبَارٌ and إِِبَارَةٌ, (M, K,) He fecundated a palm-tree [by means of the spadix of the male tree, which is bruised, or brayed, and sprinkled upon the spadix of the female; or by inserting a stalk of a raceme of the male tree into the spathe of the female, after shaking off the pollen of the former upon the spadix of the female (see أَلْقَحَ)]; (T, S, A, Msb;) as also ↓ أبّر , (S, A,) inf. n. تَأْبِيرٌ: (S:) or the latter has an intensive and frequentative signification [meaning the doing so much, or frequently, or to many palmtrees]: (Msb:) and the former (S, M, A, K) and ↓ latter, (M, A, K,) he dressed, or put into a good or right or proper state, a palm-tree, (S, M, A, K,) and seed-produce, (M, K,) or any thing, as, for instance, a snare for catching game. (A Hn, M.) You say also, أُبِرَتِ النَّخْلَةُ, and ↓ أُبِّرَت , and وُبِرَت, The palm-tree was fecundated. (Aboo- 'Amr Ibn-El-'Alà, L.) -A3- أَبِرَ, aor. اَبَرَ , He, (a man, TA,) or it, was, or became, in a good or right or proper state. (T, K.)

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