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قُبَّرٌ ذ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ قُبَرٌ (K) and ↓ قُنْبُرَآءُ (S, K) and ↓ فُنْبُرٌ , this last occurring in a Rejez, to be cited below, (S,) The [lark;] a kind of bird, (S, K,) resembling the حُمَّرَة; (TA;) a kind of small bird; (Msb:) n. un. قُبَّرَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and قُبَرَةٌ (K) and قُنْبُرَةٌ, (S, Msb,) which last is the form used by the vulgar, (S,) or it is not allowable, or it is a form of weak authority, (K,) and is also pronounced قُنْبَرَةٌ: (Msb:) pl. of قنبراء, (S, K,) and of قنبرة, (Msb,) قَنَابِرُ. (S, Msb, K.) AO cites, from a Rejez of Jendel Ibn-El-Muthennà Et- Tahawee, “ جَآءَ الشِّتَآءُ وَا@جْثَأَلَّ القُنْبُرُ
” [The winter came, and the lark plumed himself]. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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