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5 تغبّر النَّاقَةَ ذ He milked the camel, drawing what remained in her udder; (Z, Sgh, K, TA;) as also ↓ غَبَّرَهَا . (Ham p. 527.) ― -b2- Hence the following saying, of a people who had increased and multiplied, on their being asked how it was that they had increased: كُنَّا لَا نَلْتَبِئُ الصَّغِيرَ وَلَا نَتَغَبَّرُ الكَبِيرَ (assumed tropical:) We used not to take the first seed of the young, nor the remainder of the seed of the old; meaning the marrying them, from eagerness to procreate. (TA. [But لَا is there omitted in both clauses, and نَلْتَبِسُ is put by mistake for نَلْتَبِئُ.]) [See also art. لبأ.] ― -b3- And hence, (TA,) تغبّر مِنَ المَرْأَةِ وَلَدً (S, K) (assumed tropical:) He got offspring from the woman [she being old]. (K.) It is related that a certain man, (S, K, TA,) an Arab of the desert, (Z,) 'Othmán, accord. to the K, but correctly, as in the Genealogies of Ibn-El-Kelbee, Ghanm (غَنْمٌ) with gheyn moved by fet-h, and a quiescent noon, (TA,) the son of Habeeb (K, TA) the son of Kaab the son of Bekr the son of Yeshkur the son of Wáïl, (TA,) married a woman advanced in age, (S, Z,) Rakáshi the daughter of 'Ámir, (K,) and it was said to him, “ She is old: ” (S, * K, * TA:) whereupon he said, لَعَلِّى أَتَغَبَّرُ مِنْهَا وَلَدًا (S, K) May-be I shall get from her offspring: (TA:) and when a son was born to him, he named him غُبَرُ, (S, K,) like غُمَرُ; (S;) and he became the father of a tribe. (TA.) -A2- تغبّر also signifies He, or it, became sullied, or sprinkled, with dust; (TA;) as also ↓ غَبِرَ . (L.) You say also التَّمْرُ ↓ غَبِرَ The dates, or dried dates, became dusty. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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