Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

دَابِرٌ دابر act. part. n. of دَبَرَ, Following (S, K, TA) behind the back; following the back; following, with respect to place, and also with respect to time, and also (assumed tropical:) with respect to rank or station. (TA.) [Hence,] دَابِرُ قَوْمٍ The last that remains of a people or party; he who comes at the end of a people or party; as also ↓ دَابِرَتُهُمْ; which likewise signifies those who remain after them: and ↓ دَابِرَةٌ [so in the TA, but accord. to the T دَابِرٌ, which I think the right reading,] signifies one who comes after; or follows, another. (TA.) And الدَّلْوُ بَيْنَ قَابِلٍ وَدَابِرٍ The bucket is between one who advances with it to the well and one who goes back, or returns, with it to the wateringtrough. (A.) And جَعَلَهُ دَابِرَ أُذُنِهِ: see دَبْرٌ. And أَمْسِ الدَّابِرُ and ↓ المُدْبِرُ Yesterday that is past: (S, M, K:) the epithet being here a corroborative. (S, * M.) You say, صَارُوا كَأَمْسِ الدَّابِرِ [ They became like yesterday that is past ]. (A.) And هَيْهَاتَ ذَهَبَ كَمَا ذَهَبَ أَمْسِ الدَّابِرُ [ Far distant is he, or it! He, or it, hath gone like as hath gone yesterday that is past ]. (S.) ― -b2- Also An arrow that passes forth from the butt, (S, Msb, K,) [or passes beyond it, (see 1,)] and falls behind it: (TA:) you say سَهْمٌ دَابِرٌ, and سِهَامٌ دَابِرَةٌ and دَوَابِرُ. (Msb.) ― -b3- An arrow that does not win [in the game called المَيْسِر]; (K, TA;) contr. of قَابِلٌ. (S, TA.) ― -b4- The last arrow remaining in the quiver. (A.) ― -b5- The last of anything; (Ibn-Buzurj, T, M, K;) and so ↓ دَابِرَةٌ: (M:) [see also دُبُرٌ:] and (accord. to As and others, TA) the root, stock, race, or the like; syn. أَصْلٌ. (K.) One says, قَطَعَ ا@للّٰهُ دَابِرَهُمْ May God cut off the last that remain of them. (S.) And قَطَعَ ا@للّٰهُ دَابِرَهُ May God cut off the last of him, or it: (A:) or may God extirpate him. (As, T.) And in the Kur [vi. 45] it is said, فَقُطِعَ دَابِرُ القَوْمِ And the last of the people were extirpated. (M, TA.) And in a trad., يُقْطَعُ بِهِ دَابِرُهُمْ All of them shall be cut off thereby, not one remaining. (TA.) ― -b6- See also دَبِرٌ, last sentence. ― -b7- As an epithet applied to a camel: see غُدَّةٌ.

دَابِرَةٌ دابر دابره دابرة : see the next preceding paragraph, in three places. ― -b2- Also (tropical:) The end of a tract of sand: (Esh-Sheybánee, S, A, * K:) pl. دَوَابِرُ. (A.) ― -b3- Of a solid hoof, The hinder part: (T, TA:) or the part that corresponds to the hinder part of the pastern: (S, K:) or the part that is next after the hinder part of the pastern: (M, TA:) pl. as above. (T, TA.) ― -b4- Of a bird, The back toe: it is with this that the hawk strikes: (M, TA:) or a thing like a toe, in the inner side of the foot, with which the bird strikes: (S:) that of a cook is beneath his صِيصِيَة [or spur]; and with it he treads: (M, TA:) pl. as above. (TA.) ― -b5- See also دَبْرَةٌ. ― -b6- Also A mode of شَغْزَبِيَّة [or throwing down by a trick ] (S, K) in wrestling. (S.)

أَدْبَرُ ذ ; and its fem. دَبْرَاآهُ: see دَبِرٌ.

اـِدْبَارٌ أدبار اـدبار ادبار دبر [originally inf. n. of 4]: see the next paragraph, in two places.

اـِدْبَارَةٌ أدباره اـدبار اـدباره ادباره ادبارة دبر A slit in the ear [of a ewe or she-goat or she-camel], which being made, that thing [ thus made, meaning the pendulous strip, ] is twisted, and turned backward: if turned forward, it is termed اـِقْبَالَةٌ: and the hanging piece of skin of the ear is termed اـِدْبَارَةٌ [in the former case] and اـِقْبَالَةٌ [in the latter case]; as though it were a زَنَمَة [q. v.]; (As, S, M, * K;) and, respectively, ↓ اـِدْبَارٌ and اـِقْبَالٌ, and ↓ دِبْرَةْ and قِبْلَةٌ. (TA in art. قبل.) The ewe or she-goat [to which this has been done] is termed ↓ مُدَابَرَةٌ [in the former case] and مُقَابَلَةٌ [in the latter]: and you say of yourself [when you have performed the operation, in these two cases respectively], دَابَرْتُهَا and قَابَلْتُهَا: and the she-camel is termed ذَاتُ اـِدْبَارَة and ذَاتُ اـِقْبَالَةٌ; (As, S, K;) and so is the ewe or she-goat; (As, T;) and the she-camel, ↓ ذَاتُ اـِدْبَارٍ and ذَاتٌ اـِقْبَالٍ. (TA in art. قبل.)

أُدَابِرٌ ذ A man who cuts, or severs, the ties, or bonds, of his relationship; who disunites himself from his relations; (S, K;) like أُبَاتِرٌ: (S:) one who does not accept what any one says, (AO, [who mentions أُبَاتِرٌ therewith as having the former signification,] T, S, M, K,) nor regard anything: (AO, T, S, M:) one who will not receive admonition. (IKtt.) [See أُخَايِلٌ.]

مُدْبِرٌ مدبر [ Going, turning his back; turning back; &c.: see its verb, 4]. You say, مَا لَهُمْ مِنْ مُقْبِلٍ وَلَا مُدْبِرٍ They have not one that goes forward nor one that goes back. (A.) In the phrase in the Kur [ix. 25], ثُمَّ وَلَّيْتُمْ مُدْبِرِينَ [ Then ye turned back retreating ], the last word is a corroborative denotative of state; for with every تَوْلِيَة is اـِدْبَار. (M.) See also دَابِرٌ. ― -b2- نَابٌ مُدْبِرٌ is said to signify (assumed tropical:) An aged she-camel whose goodness has gone. (TA.) ― -b3- أَرْضٌ مدبرةٌ [app. مُدْبِرَةٌ] (assumed tropical:) A land upon which rain has fallen partially, not generally, or not universally. (TA in art. قبل. [This explanation is there given as though applying also to ارض مقبلة, app. مُقْبِلَةٌ; but I think that there is an omission, and that the latter phrase has the contr. meaning.])

مَدْبَرَةٌ مدبر مدبره مدبرة i. q. اـِدْبَارٌ [inf. n. of 4, q. v.]. (M.)

مُدَبَّرٌ مدبر A slave made to be free after his owner's death; (S;) to whom his owner has said, “ Thou art free after my death; ” whose emancipation has been made to depend upon his owner's death. (TA.)

مُدَبِّرٌ مدبر [is extensively and variously applied as meaning One who manages, conducts, orders, or regulates, affairs of any kind, but generally affairs of importance]. فَا@لْمَدَبِّرَاتِ أَمْرًا, in the Kur [lxxix. 5], signifies [accord. to most of the Expositors] And those angels who are charged with the managing, conducting, ordering, or regulating, of affairs. (TA. [See also Bd.])

مَدْبُورٌ مدبور , (TA,) and مَدْبُورُونَ, (S,) A man, (TA,) and people, (S,) smitten, or affected, by the [ westerly ] wind called الدَّبُور. (S, TA.) -A2- Also, the former, Wounded: (K:) or galled in the back. (TA.) -A3- And Possessing much property or wealth, or many camels or the like. (K.)

مُدَابَرٌ مدابر applied to a place of abode, Contr. of مُقَابَلٌ. (M.) You say, هٰذَا جَارِى مُقَابَلِى and مُدَابَرِى [ This is my neighbour in front of me and in rear of me ]. (TA in art. قبل.) ― -b2- مُدَابَرَةٌ applied to a ewe or she-goat: see اـِدْبَارَةٌ: so applied, Having a portion of the hinder part of her ear cut, and left hanging down, not separated: and also when it is separated: and مُقَابَلَةٌ is applied in like manner to one having a portion of the extremity [or fore part] of the ear so cut: (As, T:) and the former, applied to a she-camel, having her ear slit in the part next the back of the neck: or having a piece cut off from that part of her ear: and in like manner applied to a ewe or she-goat: also an ear cut, or slit, in the hinder part. (M.) [It seems that a she-camel had her ear thus cut if of generous race. And hence,] نَاقَةٌ مُقَابَلَةٌ مُدَابَرَةٌ (tropical:) A she-camel of generous race by sire and dam. (T, TA.) And فُلَانٌ مُقَابَلٌ وَ مُدَابَرٌ (tropical:) Such a one is of pure race, (S, K,) or of generous, or noble, race, (A,) by both parents: (S, A, K:) accord. to As, (S,) from الاـِقْبَالَةُ and الاـِدْبَارَةُ. (S, K.)

مُدَابِرٌ مدابر [act. part. n. of 3, q. v.:] (assumed tropical:) One who turns back, or away, from his companion; who avoids, or shuns, him. (As.) ― -b2- Also A man whose arrow does not win [ in the game called المَيْسِر]: (S, K:) or one who is overcome in the game called الميسر: or one who has been overcome [ therein ] time after time, and returns in order that he may overcome: or, accord. to A'Obeyd, he who turns about, or shuffles, the arrows in the رِبَابَة in that game. (TA.) [See an ex. in a verse cited in art. خض.]

فُلَانٌ مُسْتَدْبِرٌ المَجْدِ مُسْتَقْبِلُهُ فلان مستدبر المجد مستقبله فلان مستدبر المجد مستقبلة (tropical:) Such a one is [ as though he had behind him and before him honour or dignity or nobility; meaning that he is] generous, or noble, in respect of his first and his last acquisition of honour or dignity. (TA. [But it is there without any syll. signs; and with مستقبل in the place of مُسْتَقْبِلُهُ.])

4 ادبست الأَرْضُ ذ The land showed its plants or herbage: (K:) or began to show the blackness of its plants or herbage. (AHn, M, S.)

9 ادبسّ ادبس , inf. n. اِدْبِسَاسٌ; (S, K;) or ↓ ادباسّ; (M;) He (a horse, S, M, K, and a sheep, or goat, M, and a bird, S) became black: (K:) or [ brown; i. e.] of a colour between black and red; (S;) or black tinged, or intermixed, with redness. (M, TA.) [See دُبْسَةٌ and أَدْبَسُ.]

11 اـِدْبَاْسَّ see 9. ادباسّت الأَرْضُ The blackness of the land became mixed with redness. (M, TA.)

دَبْسٌ دبس Anything black. (Lth, A, K.) ― -b2- [Hence, app.,] Much people; as also ↓ دِبْسٌ: (IAar, K:) the former is also common to other things; (M, * TA;) so that you say مَالٌ دَبْسٌ, meaning much property. (TA.)

دُبْسٌ دبس : see the next paragraph.

دِبْسٌ دبس (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ دُبْسٌ (M) and ↓ دِبِسٌ (K) The expressed juice of fresh ripe dates; (A, Mgh, Msb;) what flows from fresh ripe dates; (S;) the honey of dates; [i. e. the sweet, thick, or inspissated, juice thereof; ] (M, K;) the expressed juice of dates, (M,) or of fresh ripe dates not cooked: (AHn, M:) what is called صَقْرٌ in the dial. of the people of ElMedeeneh: said by some to be the honey of fresh ripe dates: by some, what flows, or exudes, from raisins and from fresh grapes: and by some, what flows from the baskets of dates: (TA:) [see also رُبٌّ, in an explanation of which the inspissated juice of any fruit is termed its دِبْس:] also the honey of bees, عَسَلُ النَّحْلُ: so in the copies of the K and in [some of the copies of] the A; a signification not known; but [AHn] EdDeenawaree mentions the word دَبَاسَاتٌ, and explains it as signifying “ domestic bee-hives; ” and by this it is seen that the application of دبس to what bees eject may be correct: or the true reading may be عَسَلُ النَّخْلِ, with خ, as in some copies of the A; and it may be meant as explaining what precedes, meaning the expressed juice of the fruit of the palm-tree, by a kind of trope; though, as such, a useless repetition: but it is said in the O, on the authority of IDrd, that bees' honey is called ↓ دِبِسٌ: (TA:) the vulgar apply the word to [the inspissated juice of fresh ripe grapes, which resembles thick honey: and sometimes to] the honey of raisins. (MF.) -A2- See also دَبْسٌ.

دِبِسٌ دبس : see دِبْسٌ, in two places.

دُبْسَةٌ دبس دبسه دبسة A colour in animals that have hair; (Msb;) [ brownness; ] or redness tinged, or intermixed, with blackness: (M, Msb:) it is in sheep, or goats, and in horses; (M;) [and in birds: see 9:] accord. to Hoseyn Ibn-' Abd-Allah El-Isbahánee, in his book on strange pigeons, greenness, or a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour, in which are redness and blackness. (TA.) [See also أَدْبَسُ.]

دُبْسِىٌّ دبس دبسى دبسي A certain bird, (S, K,) of small size, (TA,) of a colour inclining to black, that cooes (يُقَرْقِرُ): (K, TA:) hence said by some to be the male of the يَمَام [or dove ]: (TA:) or a species of pigeons: (M:) or a pigeon of a colour between black and red: (Mgh:) or a species of the فَوَاخِت [or collared turtle-doves ]: (Msb:) fem. with ة: (Mgh, K:) [pl. دَبَاسِىٌّ:] a rel. n. from طَيْرٌ دُبْسٌ: (S, M, Msb, K: *) [see أَدْبسُ:] or from دِبْس of fresh ripe dates, but made to deviate from the form of the original, like دُهْرِىٌّ and سُهْلِىٌّ: (S:) or it has the form of a rel. n. without being such. (M, TA.)

دَباسَاتٌ دباسات Domestic bee-hives; خَلَايَا أَهْلِيَّةٌ. (AHn, M.)

دَبَّاسٌ دباس [ A seller of دِبْس]. (K in art. صقر.)

دَبُّوسٌ دبوس , (S, K,) by some written دُبُّوسٌ, which is said to be the correct form, (TA,) A mace (K, TA) of iron or other material: (TA:) app. an arabicized word, (S, K, TA,) from [the Persian] دبوز (TA) [or دَبُوسْ]: pl. دَبَابِيسُ. (S, K.)

أَدْبَسُ ذ A bird, (S, A, Msb, * K,) and a horse, (S, M, A, Mgh,) and a sheep, or goat, (M,) or a goat, (A,) [ brown; or] of a colour between black and red; (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) or of a red colour tinged, or intermixed, with blackness: (M:) or, accord. to Hoseyn Ibn-'Abd-Allah ElIsbahánee, in his book on strange pigeons, of a green colour, or a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour, in which are redness and blackness: (TA:) fem. دَبْسَاآءُ: (A:) pl. دُبْسٌ. (S, A, Msb, K.)

أَرْضٌ مُدْبِسَةٌ ذ Land beginning to show the blackness of its plants or herbage. (AHn, S.)

1 دَبَغَ الاـِهَابَ دبغ الاهاب , (S, K,) or الجِلْدَ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) aor. دَبُغَ and دَبَغَ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and دَبْغٌ, (Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. دَبْغٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and دِبَاغٌ (S, Mgh, K) and دِبَاغَةٌ, (S, K,) or the last is a subst. sometimes used as an inf. n., (Msb,) He tanned the hide, or skin; i. e., prepared it, or made it fit for use, and softened it, or made it pliable, with قَرَظ [q. v.] and the like. (TA.) It is said in a trad., دِبَاغُهَا طَهُورُهَا [ The tanning thereof is the means of purification thereof ]. (S, TA.) ― -b2- See also دَبُوغٌ.

7 اندبغ أندبغ اندبغ ٱندبغ It (a hide, or skin,) was, or became, tanned; i. e., prepared, &c., with قَرَظ and the like; (TA;) quasi-pass. of 1. (S, Msb, K, TA.) جِلْدُ الخِنْزِيرِ لَا يَنْدَبِغُ [ The skin of the pig will not become tanned ] is a prov., said of him whom good advice will not profit. (TA.)

دِبْغٌ دبغ : see دِبَاغٌ.

دَبْغَةٌ دبغ دبغه دبغة [in one of my copies of the S written دَبْغ] A single act of tanning. (S, * TA.)

دِبْغَةٌ دبغ دبغه دبغة : see what next follows.

دِبَاغٌ دباغ Tan; [ tanning-liquor, or ooze; ] that with which one tans, (S, * Mgh, * Msb, * K, * TA,) i. e., prepares, or makes fit for use, and softens, or makes pliable, a hide, or skin, consisting of قَرَظ [q. v.] and the like; (TA;) as also ↓ دِبْغٌ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ دِبْغَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ دِبَاغَةٌ. (AHn, TA.) One says, الجِلْدُ فِى الدِّبَاغِ [ The skin is in the tan, or tanning-liquor ]. (S.) And نَقَعَهُ فِى الدِّبَاغِ [ He soaked it in the tanning-liquor ]. (K in art. منأ.) ― -b2- [Hence,] دِبَاغٌ لِلْمَعِدَةِ [app. A stomachic ]. (Lth and M and Msb voce طُرْثُوثٌ, q. v.) -A2- Also an inf. n. of 1. (S, Mgh, K.)

دَبُوغٌ دبوغ (tropical:) Rain that puts the earth into a good state, and softens it, (الأَرْضَ ↓ يَدْبُغُ,) by its water. (IDrd, K, TA.)

دَبِيغٌ دبيغ , applied to a hide, i. q. ↓ مَدْبُوغٌ [i. e. Tanned ]. (K.)

دِبَاغَةٌ دباغ دباغه دباغة The craft of the دَبَّاغ [or tanner ]. (Msb, K, TA.) ― -b2- Also an inf. n. of 1, (S, K,) or a subst. sometimes used as an inf. n. of 1. (Msb.) -A2- See also دِبَاغٌ.

دَبَّاغٌ دباغ A tanner. (Msb, * K, * TA.)

دَابُوغٌ دابوغ Anguria, or water-melon; in Pers. هِنْدُوَانَهْ (KL.)

مَدْبَغَةٌ مدبغ مدبغه مدبغة and مَدْبُغَةٌ A place where hides, or skins, are tanned. (T, * Msb, * K, * TA.) [Hence,] one says, هٰذَا البَلَدُ مَدْبَغَةُ الرِّجَالِ (tropical:) [ This country is the place where men are tanned by the sun]. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, the former, Skins put into the دِبَاغ [or tanning-liquor ]: (Sgh, K:) or of which the tanning has been commenced: (Az, TA:) as though made a pl., (Sgh, TA,) like مَشْيَخَةٌ as syn. with مَشَائِخُ. (Sgh, K.)

أُدُمٌ مُدَّبَغَةٌ ذ [app. Hides, or skins, much tanned ]. (TA.)

مَدْبُوغٌ مدبوغ : see دَبِيغٌ. ― -b2- [Hence,] هٰذَا كَلَامٌ غَيْرُ مَدْبُوغٍ (tropical:) This is speech in which nothing is meant. (TA.)

1 دَبِقَ بِهِ دبق به دبق بة , (JK, K,) aor. دَبَقَ , (K,) inf. n. دَبَقٌ, (TA,) [lit. He, or it, stuck to it: and hence,] (assumed tropical:) he was, or became, attached, addicted, given, or devoted, to it, (namely, a thing, JK,) so that he did not quit it. (JK, K.) ― -b2- دَبِقَ فِى مَعِيشَتِهِ is explained by Lh only as signifying لَزِقَ [app. meaning (assumed tropical:) He stuck fast, or perhaps he clave to one course, in respect of his means of subsistence: see also مُدَبَّقٌ]. (TA.) -A2- دَبَقَهُ He stuck it, or made it to adhere. (TA. [See 4.]) ― -b2- See also what next follows.

2 دبّقهُ دبق دبقه دبقة , inf. n. تَدْبِيقٌ, (Lth, JK, K,) He caught it with دِبْق [or bird-lime ]; (Lth, K;) namely, a bird: (JK:) and so ↓ دَبَقَهُ, aor. دَبُقَ , inf. n. دَبْقٌ. (TA.)

4 ادبقهُ أدبقه ادبقه ادبقة دبق He made it to stick, or adhere. (K. [See also 1.]) You say, ادبقهُ ا@للّٰهُ بِهِ (assumed tropical:) God made him, or may God make him, to stick to it; or, it to him. (JK, TA.) ― -b2- مَا أَدْبَقَهُ (assumed tropical:) How great is his attachment, addictedness, or devotedness! (JK, TA.)

5 تدبّق دبق تدبق It (a thing) was, or became, sticky, glutinous, viscous, or ropy. (TA.) ― -b2- It (a bird) was, or became, caught by means of دِبْق [or birdlime ]; (K, TA;) i. e. it stuck, or adhered. (TA.) [See also دَبِقَ.])

دِبْقٌ دبق (Lth, IDrd, S, K, &c.) and ↓ دَابُوقٌ (Fr, K) and ↓ دَبُوقَاآءُ (K) [ Bird-lime: and the viscum, or mistletoe; and its berries, of which bird-lime is mostly prepared: the first of these words has these applications in the present day:] a kind of glue, (IDrd, K,) well known, (IDrd,) or a sticky, glutinous, or viscous, thing, like glue, (Fr, S, TA,) with which birds are caught; (Fr, IDrd, S, K, TA;) in one dial. called طِبْقٌ: (IDrd:) Lth says, it is the fruit, or produce, of a tree, having in its interior a substance like glue, that sticks to the wing of the bird: the hakeem Dáwood says, [in a passage which is imperfect in the TA,] it is found upon the tree in like manner as lichen (الشَّيْبَة), but is a berry, like the chick-pea (حِمَّص) in roundness; . . . . the best thereof is the smooth, soft, with much moisture, inclining, in its exterior, to greenness, and it is mostly found upon the oak; when it is cooked with honey and دِبْس [or the expressed juice of fresh ripe dates, &c.], . . . . and drawn out into longish strings, and put upon trees, the birds become caught by it. (TA.)

[ دَبِقٌ دبق part. n. of دَبِقَ, Sticky, glutinous, or viscous: so in modern Arabic.]

دَبُوقَاآءُ دبوقاآء : see دِبْقٌ. ― -b2- Also Anything sticky, glutinous, viscous, or ropy; that draws out with a sticky, glutinous, viscous, or ropy, continuity of parts. (IDrd, K, * TA.) ― -b3- And Human ordure; (JK, S, K;) because of its sticky, or ropy, quality. (JK.)

دَابُوقٌ دابوق : see دِبْقٌ.