مِئْبَرَةٌ ذ (Lh, S, M, K) and ↓ مِئْبَرٌ and ↓ إِِبْرَةٌ (M, K) (tropical:) Malicious and mischievous misrepresentation; calumny; or slander; (Lh, S, M, K;) and the (assumed tropical:) marring, or disturbance, of the state of union or concord or friendship or love between a people or between two parties: (Lh, S, K, TA:) pl. مَآبِرٌ. (S, M.) You say, خَبُثَتْ مِنْهُمُ المَخَابِرْ فَمَشَتْ بَيْنَهُمُ المَآبِرْ (tropical:) [Their internal states, or qualities, became bad, or evil, or corrupt, and in consequence calumnies became current among them]. (A.)
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