شبر

Arabic

Etymology 1

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Noun

شِبْر (šibr) m (plural أَشْبَار (ʾašbār))

  1. span (the measure of the hand)
Declension
Derived terms
  • شَبَرَ (šabara, to mete with the span)
  • شَبَّرَ (šabbara, to magnify; to gesture)
  • أَشْبَرَ (ʾašbara, to beget children tall in the statures; to donate)
  • تَشَبَّرَ (tašabbara, to be of a large stature)
  • تَشَابَرَ (tašābara, to approach each other in battle closely)
  • أَشْبَر (ʾašbar, wider in the span)

Verb

شَبَرَ (šabara) I, non-past يَشْبُرُ or يَشْبِرُ‎ (yašburu or yašbiru)

  1. to mete with the span, to apportion by the شِبْر (šibr)
Conjugation

Noun

شَبْر (šabr) m

  1. verbal noun of شَبَرَ (šabara) (form I)
  2. dation, gift
Declension

Verb

شَبَّرَ (šabbara) II, non-past يُشَبِّرُ‎ (yušabbiru)

  1. to magnify, to extol
  2. to gesture, to sign with the hand
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin sūber.

Noun

شُبِر (šubir) m

  1. cork oak (Quercus suber)
    • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام‎ [Yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʾaḥmad ibn al-ʿawwām], José Antonio Banqueri, editor, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802IA, Cap. 34, Art. 6, pages 721–722:
      وقال غيره يتخذ لها الخلايا من خشب الأرز ومن طين طيب الريح وتطين الخلايا من خارجها برماد وأخثاء البقر مدقوق معجون بالماء ويتخذ لها بعض الناس الخلايا من قشور الشبر وتسميه العامة «جناحا»
      And another author said that for beehives cedar wood and clay of good smell is taken and the beehives are daubed from the outside with ash and cow dung powdered and kneaded with water, and some people take for beehives the barks of the cork oak, generally called “wings”.
Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), شبر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 719
  • Freytag, Georg (1833), شبر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 388
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), شبر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1183
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), شبر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1495–1496
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), شبر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 628
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