صبر

صَبِيرٌ ذ : see صَابِرٌ, in two places. ― -b2- Also A surety. (S, M, Msb, K.) You say, هُوَ بِهِ صَبِيرٌ He is a surety for him, or it. (TA.) ― -b3- And صَبِيرُ قَوْمٍ The chief, head, director, conductor, or manager, of the affairs of a people, or party: (M, K:) he who is patient for, and with, a people, or party, in [ the managing of ] their affairs: (A:) pl. صُبَرَاآءُ. (M.) ― -b4- [And accord. to Golius, A solitary man, having neither offspring nor brother: but app. a mistake for صُنْبُورٌ, which is thus expl. in the S in this art.] -A2- Also, (S, M, K,) and ↓ صُبَارَةٌ, (M,) A white cloud; (M, K;) and so ↓ صِبْرٌ and ↓ صُبْرٌ, of which the pl. is أَصْبَارٌ: (K:) or white clouds; (M, K;) as also أَصْبَانٌ, pl. of ↓ صِبْرٌ and ↓ صُبْرٌ: (Fr, Yaakoob, S:) or white clouds that scarcely ever, or never, give rain: (S:) or clouds, (M, K,) or white clouds, (As, S,) that become disposed one above another (As, S, M, K) in the manner of steps: (As, S, M:) or a dense cloud that is above another cloud: (M, K:) or a stationary portion of cloud: (K:) or a portion of cloud which one sees as though it were مَصْبُورَة, i. e. detained; but this explanation is of weak authority: or, accord. to AHn, clouds remaining stationary a day and a night; as though detained: (M:) or clouds in which are blackness and whiteness: or, as some say, clouds slow in motion, by reason of their heaviness and the abundance of their water: (Ham p. 786:) the pl. of صَبِيرٌ is the same as the sing., (M,) or it is صُبُرٌ. (S, M, K.) ― -b2- And صَبِيرٌ, A mountain: (O, K:) or الصَّبِيرُ is the name of a particular mountain. (TA.) ― -b3- [And accord. to Freytag, as from the K, in which I do not find this meaning, A hill consisting of stones. ] -A3- Also صَبِيرٌ, (K,) i. e. (TA) the صَبِير of a خَوَان [or table, or thing upon which one eats], (M, A, TA,) A thin, round cake of bread, which is spread beneath the food that one eats: (M, A, K:) or (K, TA, but in the CK “ and ”) upon which the food to be eaten at a wedding-feast is ladled (K, TA) by the maker of the bread: (TA:) also called ↓ صَبِيرَةٌ. (K.)