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غُبَيْرَآءُ ذ [dim. of غَبْرَآءُ]: see أَغْبَرُ, in two places. ― -b2- Also A certain plant [or tree], (K,) well known, (S,) growing in the plains; (TA;) [the service-tree, or sorb: or its fruit: so called in the present day: as is also the “ inula undulata: ”] and so ↓ غَبْرَآءُ : (K:) so called because of the colour of its leaves; the fruit of which, when it appears, becomes intensely red: (TA:) or the former is the tree, and the latter is the fruit: or the converse is the case: (K:) the sing. and pl. are alike: all this says AHn, in his “ Book of Plants. ” (TA.) -A2- Also A kind of beverage, (شَرَاب, S, K, or نَبِيذ, Msb,) which intoxicates, made by the Abyssinians, (S,) from ذُرَة [or millet]; (S, Msb, K;) also called سُكُرْكَة: (Mgh, Msb, K:) or wine [or cider] made from the wellknown fruit of the same name [the service-apple]. (Th, TA.) [See also مِزْرٌ.] It is said in a trad., إِِيَّاكُمْ وَا@لغُبَيْرَآءَ فَإِِنَّهَا خَمْرُ العَالَمِ (S, Mgh, TA) Avoid ye the beverage called غبيراء; for it is like the wine that is commonly known of all men: there is no distinction to be made between the two drinks (Mgh, TA) with respect to prohibition. (TA.) In another trad., it is called غُبَيْرَآءُ السَّكَرِ; to distinguish it from a kind of غبيراء made of dates, or dried dates. (Mgh.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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