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حَبِيرٌ حبير A [garment of the kind called] بُرْد, variegated, (مُوَشَّىِ,) (K,) [i. e.] striped. (TA.) One says بُرْدٌ حَبِيرٌ and بُرْدُ حَبِيرٍ. (TA.) [See also حِبَرَةٌ. Hence the saying,] لَبِسَ حَبِيرَ الحُبُورِ وَا@سْتَوَى عَلَى سَرِيرِ السُّرُورِ (tropical:) [He clad himself with the mantle of cheerfulness, and seated himself firmly upon the couch of happiness]. (A.) ― -b2- Also, applies to a garment, or piece of cloth, New: (S, K:) and soft and new; (K, TA;) applied to the same; (TA;) and so ↓ حَبِرٌ ; (K;) which also signifies a soft thing: (TA:) pl. of the former حُبْرٌ. (K.) ― -b3- And Clouds; syn. سَحَابٌ: (S:) or clouds spotted (مُنَمَّرٌ); (K;) in which one sees what resembles تَنْمِير, by reason of the abundance of their water; but Er-Riyáshee disapproves of this. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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