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مُدْبِرٌ مدبر [Going, turning his back; turning back; &c.: see its verb, 4]. You say, مَا لَهُمْ مِنْ مُقْبِلٍ وَلَا مُدْبِرٍ They have not one that goes forward nor one that goes back. (A.) In the phrase in the Kur [ix. 25], ثُمَّ وَلَّيْتُمْ مُدْبِرِينَ [Then ye turned back retreating], the last word is a corroborative denotative of state; for with every تَوْلِيَة is إِِدْبَار. (M.) See also دَابِرٌ. ― -b2- نَابٌ مُدْبِرٌ is said to signify (assumed tropical:) An aged she-camel whose goodness has gone. (TA.) ― -b3- أَرْضٌ مدبرةٌ [app. مُدْبِرَةٌ] (assumed tropical:) A land upon which rain has fallen partially, not generally, or not universally. (TA in art. قبل. [This explanation is there given as though applying also to ارض مقبلة, app. مُقْبِلَةٌ; but I think that there is an omission, and that the latter phrase has the contr. meaning.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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