صبر

صَبْرٌ ذ [inf. n. of 1, q. v. ― -b2- Used as a simple subst.,] Patience, or endurance; contr. of جَزَعٌ: (M, K:) or restraint of oneself, or of one's soul, from impatience. (S. [Several other explanations of this word are shown by explanations of the verb.]) ― -b3- شَهْرُ الصَّبْرِ The month of fasting: (K:) fasting being called صَبْر because it is self-restraint from food and beverage and sexual intercourse. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b4- [قَتَلَهُ صَبْرًا, and قُتِلَ صَبْرًا: see 1.] ― -b5- يَمِينُ الصَّبْرِ The oath for which the judge, or governor, [in the CK الحُكْمُ is erroneously put for الحَكَمُ,] holds one in custody until he swears it: (M, K:) or the oath that is obligatory (K, TA) upon the swearer, (TA,) and which the swearer is compelled to take, (Mgh, K,) he being confined by the Sultán until he do so: (Mgh, * TA:) such an oath is also termed ↓ يَمِينٌ مَصْبُورَةٌ: (Mgh:) [i. e.] the term مَصْبُورَةٌ is applied to an oath, (S, K, TA,) meaning one on account of which a man is confined, in order to make him swear it; (TA; [and this seems to be indicated by the context in the S and K;]) but the man being مَصْبُور, and not the oath, the latter is thus termed tropically. (TA.) ― -b6- [حَلَفَ صَبْرًا: see 1.] -A2- See also صَبِرٌ.