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غُبْرٌ ذ A remain, remainder, remnant, relic, or residue, (S, K,) of a thing; (K;) generally, of the blood of the menses, (K,) and of milk in the udder: (S, K:) as also ↓ غُبَّرٌ : (Msb, K:) or ↓ غُبَّرٌ is a pl. of غُبْرٌ: [but if so it is extr.:] (TA:) or the pl. of غُبْرٌ is أَغْبَارٌ: (S, K:) and ↓ غُبَّرٌ is pl. of ↓ غَابِرٌ [used as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant]; (A'Obeyd, TA;) and signifies remains, &c.: (A'Obeyd, S, TA:) and ↓ غُبَّرَاتٌ is a pl. pl.; i. e., pl. of ↓ غُبَّرٌ . (A'Obeyd, TA.) You say بِهَا غُبْرٌ مِنْ لَبَنٍ In her (the camel) is a remain of milk. (S.) And ↓ غُبَّرُ الحَيْضِ signifies The remains [of the blood] of the menses; (S;) as also غُبْرُهُ. (Ham p. 37.) And المَرَضِ ↓ غُبَّرُ The remains of the disease. (S.) And in like manner, اللَّيْلِ ↓ غُبَّرُ (S) The last part, and the remains, of the night. (TA.) It is said in a trad. of 'Amr Ibn-El-Ás, مَا تَأَبَّطَتْنِى الإِِمَآءُ وَلَا المَآلِى ↓ حَمَلَتْنِى البَغَايَا فِى غُبَّرَاتِ [Female slaves did not carry me under their armpits,] i. e., female slaves did not have the office of rearing me, nor did prostitutes carry me in the remains of the rags used for the menses. (TA.) And in another trad., مِنْ أَهْلِ الكِتَابِ ↓ فَلَمْ يَبْقَ إِِلَّا غُبَّرَاتٌ , or أَهْلِ ↓ غُبَّرُ الكِتَابِ, accord. to different relations, i. e. And there remained not save remains of the people of the Scripture, or the remains &c. (TA.) And in a trad. of Mo'áwiyeh, بِفَنَائِهِ أَعْنُزٌ دَرُّهُنَّ غُيْرٌ [In the court of his house were some she-goats whose flow of milk was a mere remain of what it had been,] meaning, little. (L.) [See also غَابِرٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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