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مُدَابِرٌ مدابر [act. part. n. of 3, q. v.:] (assumed tropical:) One who turns back, or away, from his companion; who avoids, or shuns, him. (As.) ― -b2- Also A man whose arrow does not win [in the game called المَيْسِر]: (S, K:) or one who is overcome in the game called الميسر: or one who has been overcome [therein] time after time, and returns in order that he may overcome: or, accord. to A'Obeyd, he who turns about, or shuffles, the arrows in the رِبَابَة in that game. (TA.) [See an ex. in a verse cited in art. خض.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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