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مَأْبُورٌ ذ A dog that has had a needle given him, to eat, in bread: (S:) and, with ة, applied to a sheep or goat (شاة) that has eaten a needle in its fodder, and in whose inside it has stuck fast; in consequence of which the animal eats nothing, or, if it eat, the eating does it no good. (TA.) It is said in a trad., المُؤْمِنُ كَا@لْكَلْبِ المَأْبُورِ The believer is like the dog that has had a needle given to him, to eat, in bread. (S.) [Accord. to Ibr D, the meaning is, that he is generous and incautious, so that he is easily deceived.] -A2- Also, (T, S, A,) and ↓ مُؤَبَّرٌ , (S,) A palm-tree fecundated: (T, S, A:) and the same, and seed-produce, dressed, or put into a good or right or proper state. (T, TA.) The former is the meaning in the phrase سِكَّةٌ مَأْبُورَةٌ, (T, S,) occurring in a trad., [q. v. voce مَأْمُورٌ,] i. e. A row of palm-trees [or perhaps a tall palm-tree] fecundated: or, as some say, this phrase means a ploughshare properly prepared for ploughing. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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