Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ت

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تِبْرٌ أبار أبر بار بر برى تبر [a coll. gen. n., of which the n. un. is with ة: Native gold, in the form of dust or of nuggets: this is the sense in which the word is generally used in the present day:] broken gold: (M:) it is not so called unless in the dust of its mine, or broken: (IJ, M:) or gold, and silver, before it is wrought: (Lth, T, IF, Msb:) or broken, or crumbled, particles of gold, and of silver, before they are wrought: when they are wrought, they are called ذَهَبٌ and فِضَّةٌ: (IAar, T, K:) or uncoined gold (S, Mgh, Msb) and silver: (Mgh:) when coined, it is called عَيْنٌ: (S, Msb:) [properly,] the term تبر should not be employed save as applied to gold; but some apply it to silver also: (S:) the تبر of silver, as well as of gold, is mentioned in a trad.: (TA:) or gold (M, K) universally: (M:) and silver: (K:) or what is extracted from the mine, (M, K,) of gold and silver and all جَوَاهِر [here meaning native ores] of the earth, (M,) before it is wrought (M, K) and used: (M:) or any جَوْهَر [or native ore] before it is used, of copper (Zj, T, Mgh, Msb) and brass (Zj, T, Mgh) or iron (Msb) &c.: (Zj, Mgh, Msb:) and any جوهر [or native ore] that is used, of copper and brass: (K:) the word is sometimes applied to other minerals than gold and silver, as copper and iron and lead, but generally to gold; and some say that its primary application is to gold, and that the other applications are later, or tropical: (TA:) also broken pieces of glass. (Zj, T, M, K.)