وبر

أَوْبَرُ ذ : see وَبِرٌ. ― -b2- بَنَاتُ أَوْبَرَ, (As, A 'Obeyd, AHn, T, S, M, K,) and بَنَاتُ الأَوْبَرِ, (AZ, T, S, M,) the art. being added by poetic license, (M,) A species of كَمْأَة [or truffles ], downy, (AZ, As, A 'Obeyd, T, S, M, [the epithet thus rendered is written in copies of the K مُزْغِبَةٌ, and in the T, S, M, مُزَغِّبَةٌ, but in art. زغب in the TA it seems to be indicated that it is probably مُزْغِبَّةٌ,]) small, and of the colour of earth: (AZ, S, K:) or, accord. to AHn, truffles (كمأة) like pebbles, small, found in places where they have broken through the crust of the soil, in number from one to ten; they are bad in flavour; and are the first of كمأة: or, as he says in another place, they are like كمأة, but are not كمأة; and they are small: (M: see also جَبْءٌ:]) n. un. اـِبْنُ أَوْبَرَ. (As, A 'Obeyd, T.) You say, اـِنَّ بَنِى فُلَانٍ مِثْلُ بَنَاتِ أَوْبَرَ [ Verily the sons of such a one are like benát-owbar ]: one imagines that there is good in them [when there is none]. (M.) And لَقِيتُ مَنْهُ بَنَاتَ أَوْبَرَ I experienced from him [ a disappointment, or] a calamity, or misfortune. (Sgh, K.) ― -b3- دَاهِيَةٌ وَبْرَاآءُ, (S, A, art. شعر), (tropical:) An evil, a foul, or an abominable, calamity, or misfortune. (TA, voce أَشْعَرُ, q. v.)