زءبر

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes the fine, downy fuzz or nap that appears on new cloth, particularly luxurious fabrics like silk. It extends to the idea of something being covered in such a fuzz, and metaphorically, to the entirety of something.

Derived headwords

الزِّئْبِرnoun

1.
Fuzz on new clothboth
The fine, downy fuzz or nap that appears on new garments, similar to what is seen on silk.

الزِّئْبِرnoun

1.
Fuzz on silk/velvetclassical
The nap of silk, velvet, or similar fine fabrics.

زَأْبَرَverb

1.
To produce fuzzclassical
A garment produced its fuzz or nap.

زَأْبَرَهُverb

1.
To produce fuzzclassical
A garment produced its fuzz or nap.

مُزَأْبِرadjective

1.
Fuzzyclassical
Describing a garment that has produced its fuzz or nap.

مُزَأْبِرadjective

1.
Fuzzyclassical
Describing a garment that has produced its fuzz or nap.

زَأْبَرverb

1.
To produce fuzzclassical
A garment produced its fuzz or nap.

زَغْبَرَverb

1.
To produce fuzzclassical
A garment produced its fuzz or nap (synonymous with زأبر).

ازْئِبْرَارnoun

1.
Thickening of furclassical
The state of a cat's fur becoming thick and abundant.

يَزْبَئِرّverb

1.
To become furryclassical
The verb form describing the process of fur becoming thick and abundant.

Parallel reading

الزِّئْبِر، بالكسر مهموز: ما يعلو الثوب الجديد مثل ما يعلو الخز.

The zi'bir, with a kasra and hamza: is what covers new cloth, like what covers silk.

الزِّئْبِر والزِّئْبِر، بضم الباء، ما يظهر من درز الثوب؛

The zi'bir and zi'bir, with a damma on the ba', is what appears from the seam of a garment;

وقد زأبر الثوب وزأبره: أخرج زئبره،

And the garment produced its fuzz and it produced its fuzz: it brought out its fuzz,

وهو مزأبر ومزأبر.

And it is fuzzy and fuzzy.

وأخذ الشيء بزأبره أي بجميعه؛

And he took the thing with its entirety, meaning all of it;

زئبر الثوب وزغبره.

The garment produced its fuzz and its fuzz.

هو زئبر الثوب، وقد قيل: زئبر، بضم الباء، ولا يقال زئبر.

It is the fuzz of the garment, and it has been said: zu'bir, with a damma on the ba', and it is not said zu'bir.

الزِّئْبِر، بضم الباء، زئبر الخز والقطيفة والثوب ونحوه؛

The zu'bir, with a damma on the ba', is the fuzz of silk, velvet, and similar garments;

ومننه اشتق ازبئرار الهر إذا وفى شعره وكثر؛

And from it is derived the azbi'rar of a cat when its fur becomes abundant and plentiful;

فهو ورد اللون في ازبئراره،

So it is rose-colored in its abundance of fur,

وكميت اللون ما لم يزبئر

And dark-colored as long as it has not become abundant with fur.