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غَبَرٌ ذ A remaining, lasting, or continuance; (TA;) and so ↓ مَغْبَرٌ . (Ham p. 225.) ― -b2- [And by some of the grammarians it is used as signifying The future: see also غَابِرٌ.] -A2- Also A certain disease in the interior of the foot of a camel. (K.) ― -b2- And A morbid affection in a vein, that will hardly, or in nowise, be cured. (TA.) [See also غَبِرٌ.] ― -b3- دَاهِيَةُ الغَبَرِ (said by A'Obeyd to be from the phrase جُرْحٌ غَبِرٌ [q. v.], TA) means A calamity, or misfortune, (JK, S, K,) of great magnitude, (S,) which, (JK, S,) or the like whereof, (K,) is such that no way of escape therefrom will be found: (JK, S, * K: *) or a trial, or an affliction, that will hardly, or in nowise, depart: (TA:) or a person who opposes thee, disagreeing with thee, and then returns, or has regard, to thy saying; (K, TA;) whence the saying, mentioned by AZ, إِِلَّا لِطَلَبِ المِرَآءِ ↓ مَا غَبَّرَتْ . (TA. [See 2, last sentence.]) ― -b4- صَمَّآءُ الغَبَرِ, occurring in a verse of El- Hirmázee in praise of El-Mundhir Ibn-Járood, to whom it is applied, is expl. by Z as meaning The serpent that dwells near to a small water in a place where it collects and stagnates, and that will not be approached. (TA.) And [it is said that] الغَبَرُ signifies Water little in quantity. (O.) -A3- Also Dust, or earth; syn. تُرَابٌ. (K.) [See also غُبَارٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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