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تَبَاشِيرُ ذ , as though it were pl. of تَبْشِيرٌ, inf. n. of بَشَّرَ; (A;) a word which has not its like except in the instances of تَعَاشِيبُ and تَعَاجِيبُ and تَفَاطِيرُ [and تَبَاكِيرُ and تَبَارِيحُ, and probably a few others]; (TA;) (tropical:) [Annunciations; foretokens; foretellers; foreshowers; prognostics; earnests; of what is good:] the beginnings of anything: (S, K:) the first of blossoms &c.: (TA:) the beginnings, (S, K,) or first annunciations, (A,) of daybreak; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ بَشَائِرُ : (TA:) it has no verb: (S:) and [is said to have] no sing.: but in a trad. of El-Hajjáj, تَبْشِيرٌ occurs as meaning (assumed tropical:) the commencement of rain. (TA.) One says, فِيهِ مَخَايِلُ الرُّشْدِ وَ تَبَاشِيرُهُ (tropical:) [In him are indications of right conduct, or belief, and its earnests]. (A.) See also بُشْرَى. ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) Streaks of the light of daybreak in the night. (TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) Streaks that are seen upon the surface of the ground, caused by the winds. (Lth, K. *) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) The colours of palm-trees when their fruit begins to ripen; (K;) as also تَبَاكِيرُ. (TA.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) Such as bear fruit early, or before others, of palm-trees. (K.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) Marks of galls upon the side of a beast. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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