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البَاقِرُ الباقر باقر The lion: (K:) because, when he catches his prey, he rips open his belly. (TA.) ― -b2- بَاقِرٌ and ↓ بَاقرَةٌ , [the latter an intensive epithet,] A man who inquires, and searches to the utmost, after sciences. (A.) And بَاقِرُ عِلْمٍ One who enlarges himself, or takes a wide range, in science, or knowledge. (Msb.) ― -b3- فِتْنَةٌ بَاقِرَةٌ, (S, K,) occurring in a trad., (TA,) (assumed tropical:) A sedition, discord, dissension, or the like, that severs society; (K;) that corrupts religion, and separates men: or that is wide-spreading and great: (TA:) it is likened to the disease of the belly; meaning the yellow water or fluid: (S:) or to pain of the belly; because its exciting cause and its cure are unknown. (TA.) -A2- See also بَقَرٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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