Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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ضَبْرٌ ذ an inf. n. used as an epithet: see مَضْبُورٌ. -A2- Also (assumed tropical:) A company of men engaged in a warring, or warring and plundering, expedition, (S, O, K, TA,) on foot. (TA.) And Footmen [app. meaning foot-soldiers]; syn. رَجَّالَةٌ [quasi-pl. n. of رَاجِلٌ]. (TA.) ― -b2- Also [The musculus, or testudo; a machine made of] skin covering wood, (Lth, O, K,) within which are men, (K,) and which is brought near to fortresses, for the purpose of fighting, (Lth, O, K,) i. e. for fighting the people thereof: (Lth, O:) pl. ضُبُورٌ, (Lth, O, K,) which means what are termed دَبَّابَاتٌ: (Lth, A, O: [see دَبَّابَةٌ:]) [or it is a coll. gen. n.; for it is said that] one such thing is called ضَبْرَةٌ. (TA.) -A3- Also [The species of nut called] the wild جَوْز (جَوْزُ البَرِّ), which is a hard sort of جوز, not the wild pomegranate, for this is called the مَظّ: (S, O:) or the tree of what is called جَوْزُ البَرِّ; as also ↓ ضَبِرٌ : (K:) or, accord. to [AHn] Ed-Deenawaree, each of these words, the latter being a dial. var. of the former, is applied to the tree of a sort of جَوز found in the mountains of the Saráh (السَّرَاة), which blossoms, but does not organize and compact any fruit (لاَ يَعْقِدُ); and the n. un. is ↓ ضَبِرَةٌ [and ضَبْرَةٌ]: he says also that the ضَبِر was described to him by an Arab of the desert, of Saráh, as a great tree, as big as the great walnut-tree, having round leaves, as big as the hand, and very numerous. (O.) And the ضَبْر is [also] What is called جَوْزُ بَوَّا [i. e. the nutmeg]: (K:) IAar says that it is what the people of the towns and villages call جَوْزُ بَوَّا. (O.) -A4- And i. q. فَقْرٌ [Poverty, &c.]. (IAar, TA.)