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مُبْصِرٌ مبصر : see بَصِيرٌ. ― -b2- [Hence,] (tropical:) A watcher, or guard, set in a garden. (A.) ― -b3- And المُبْصِرُ (assumed tropical:) The lion, which sees his prey from afar, and pursues it. (K.) -A2- [Making, or causing, to see, or to have sight: and hence, giving light; shining; illumining: and conspicuous; manifest; evident; apparent: also making, or causing, to have mental perception, or knowledge, or skill.] وَالنَّهَارَ مُبْصِرًا, in the Kur [x. 68, &c. (in the CK ↓ والنّهارُ مُبْصَرًا ）], means, And the day [causing to see; or] in which one sees; (K;) giving light; shining; or illumining. (TA.) And فَلَمَّا جَآءَتْهُمْ آيَاتُنَا مُبْصِرَةً, also in the Kur [xxvii. 13], (assumed tropical:) And when our signs came to them, making them to have sight, or to have mental perception, or knowledge, or skill; expl. by تَجْعَلُهُمْ بُصَرَآءَ: (Akh, S, K:) or giving light; shining; or illumining: (S:) or being conspicuous, manifest, or evident: or we may read ↓ مُبْصَرَةً , meaning having become manifest, or evident. (Zj, M.) And آتَيْنَا ثَمُودَ النَّاقَةَ مُبْصِرَةً, also in the Kur [xvii. 61], (assumed tropical:) And we gave to Thamood the she-camel, by means of which they had sight, or mental perception, or knowledge, or skill: (Akh:) or a sign giving light, shining, or illumining; (Fr, T;) and this is the right explanation: (T:) or a manifest, or an evident, sign: (Zj, L, K:) and some read ↓ مُبْصَرَةً , meaning having become manifest, so as to be seen. (Zj, L.) And جَعَلْنَا آيَةَ النَّهَارِ مُبْصِرَةً, also in the Kur [xvii. 13], (tropical:) We have made the sign of the day manifest, or apparent. (K, TA.) -A3- One who hangs upon his door a بَصِيرَة, i. e. an oblong piece of cloth (K, TA) of cotton or other material. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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