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صَبَّارٌ ذ : see صَابِرٌ, in two places. ― -b2- أُمُّ صَبَّارٍ (S, M, A, K) and ↓ أُمُّ صَبُّورٍ , (K,) or the former only is meant in the K as having the first of the significations here following, (TA,) A stony tract, of which the stones are black and worn and crumbling, as though burned with fire; syn. حَرَّةٌ; (T, S, M, A, &c.;) for which حَرّ is erroneously put in copies of the K: (TA:) from ↓ صُبْرٌ , q. v.; (S, M;) or from صُبَارَةٌ: or, accord. to some, such as is level, abounding with stones, and difficult to walk upon: (M:) or the former is [the tract called] حَرَّةُ لَيْلَى, and [that called] حَرَّةُ النَّارِ: (ElFezáree:) or it has the first of the above-mentioned significations, and signifies also a [mountain, or hill, such as is termed] هَضْبَة: (ISk:) or smooth rock upon which nothing makes an impression: but the latter, accord. to Aboo-'Amr Esh-Sheybánee, signifies a هَضْبَة without a pass. (ISh.) ― -b3- Also أُمُّ صَبَّارٍ (M, K) and ↓ أًمُّ صَبُّورٍ (S, M, K) A calamity, or misfortune: and a severe war: (M, K:) or the latter, a distressing case. (S.) One says, وَقَعُوا فِى أُمِّ صَبَّارٍ (M) and ↓ أُمِّ صَبُّورٍ (S, M) They fell into a calamity, &c.: (M:) or the latter, they fell into a distressing case: (S:) or into a perplexing and distressing case, from which they could not escape, like the هَضْبَة, above mentioned, without a pass: (Aboo-'Amr EshSheybánee:) but in some of the copies of the “ Alfádh ” [of ISk], أُمِّ صَيُّورٍ, as though derived from صِيَارَةٌ, signifying “ stones. ” (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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