دبار

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /di.baːr/

Etymology 1

From the root د ب ر (d-b-r).

Noun

دِبَار (dibār) m

  1. verbal noun of دَابِرَ (dābira, to turn the back upon) (form III)
    • 7th century CE, Sunan Abī Dāwud, 2:203:
      «ثَلَاثَةٌ لَا يَقْبَلُ اللّٰهُ مِنْهُمْ صَلَاةً مَنْ تَقَدَّمَ قَوْمًا وَهُمْ لَهُ كَارِهُونَ وَرَجُلٌ أَتَى الصَّلَاةَ دِبَارًا […] وَرَجُلٌ اِعْتَبَدَ مُحَرَّرَهُ»‏.‏
      “ṯalāṯatun lā yaqbalu llāhu minhum ṣalātan man taqaddama qawman wahum lahū kārihūna warajulun ʾatā ṣ-ṣalāta dibāran […] warajulun iʿtabada muḥarrarahū”.
      There are three kinds of people of which Allah does not accept the prayer, those who go in front of people whilst the latter hate this, those who lag behind, and those who take as slaves their freedmen.
Declension

Noun

دُبَار (dubār) m

  1. (obsolete) Wednesday, the fourth day of the week
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܕܒܪܐ (dḇārā, way of driving; plowing; plowland), from ܕܒܪ (dḇar, to drive; to plough).

Noun

دِبَار • (dibār) m (collective, singulative دِبَارَة (dibāra) or دِبْرَة (dibra) or دَبْرَة (dabra))

(obsolete)
  1. plowland, a seedbed measure, a part of ground separated from others by ridges of earth thus retaining water for irrigation
    • a. 728, by جَرِير (jarīr)
      قَطْعُ الدِبَارِ وَأَبْرُ النَخْلِ عَادَتُهُم / قِدْمًا فَمَا جَاوَزَت هٰذَا مَسَاعِيهَا
      qaṭʿu d-dibāri waʾabru n-naḵli ʿādatuhum / qidman famā jāwazat hāḏā masāʿīhā
      The snithing the plowland and the seeding the palms goes according to their customs from yore, and it did not go beyond its efforts.
Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

دِبَار (dibār) pl

  1. plural of دِبْر (dibr, swarm, drove)

References

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