زبر
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaأَزْبَرُ ذ and ↓ مَزْبَرَانِىٌّ (the latter written in [some of] the copies of the K, [not in all of them, for in the CK it is written as above,] مُزْبِرٌ, which is a mistake, TA) Large in the زُبْرَة [q. v.]: (S, K:) the former applied to a man, and the latter to a lion: (S:) or, accord. to ISd, Khálid Ibn-Kulthoom is in error in saying that the latter is an epithet applied to the lion; and that the correct word is مَرْزُبَانِىٌّ: the fem. of the former is زَبْرَاآءُ. (TA.) ― -b2- Also the former, Annoying, or hurting. (Sgh, K.) ― -b3- قَدْ هَاجَتْ زَبْرَاآءُ [ Zebrà has become excited ], (S,) or هَاجَتْ زَبْرَاآؤُهُ His anger has become excited, is said of any man when this has been the case: (TA:) [it is said that] Zebrà was a clamorous and foul-tongued slave-girl of ElAhnaf Ibn-Keys; and when she was angry, he used to say, قد هاجت زبراآء: and it became a proverb. (S, TA.)
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