جعبر

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes shortness and stockiness, often in a negative or unflattering way. It also refers to a specific historical figure and a castle named after him, as well as the act of knocking someone down.

Derived headwords

الجَعْبَرُnoun

1.
short, stocky personboth
A short, stocky, and somewhat clumsy or ill-formed person.
2.
short, thick-walled vesselclassical
A short, thick-walled vessel, like a cup or bowl, whose walls were not well-carved or finished.

كجعفرother

1.
like Ja'farclassical
Used as a pattern for pronunciation or form, similar to the name Ja'far.

الجَعْبَرِيُّadjective

1.
short and stockyboth
Describing someone who is short and stocky, or short and stout.

جعبرname

1.
name of a manclassical
A proper name of a man from the Banu Numayr tribe, also known as Sa'iq al-Din Ja'bar ibn Saabaq.

قلعة جعبرname

1.
Ja'bar Castleclassical
A castle on the Euphrates River named after Ja'bar ibn Saabaq, who took control of it.

جعبرهverb

1.
knocked him downboth
To strike someone and knock them down, to fell them.

الجعبريةnoun

1.
short, unattractive womanclassical
A woman who is short and unattractive or ill-favored.

الجعبرةnoun

1.
shortness and stockinessclassical
The state or quality of being short and stocky, often used to describe women.

الجعنبارadjective

1.
short and stoutclassical
Describing someone who is short and stout or thick-set.

Parallel reading

والجعبري: (القصير) المتداخل، وقال يعقوب: القصير الغليظ.

And al-Ja'bari: (the short) and stocky, and Ya'qub said: the short and stout.

والجعبر: (القعب الغليظ القصير الجدر)، الذي (لم يحكم نحته)، كذا في المحكم.

And al-Ja'bar: (the thick-walled, short cup), which (was not well carved), as stated in al-Muhkam.

جعبر، (بلا لام رجل من بني نمير)

Ja'bar, (without the definite article, a man from the Banu Numayr tribe)

ويقال: قشير، وهو الأمير سابق الدين جعبر بن سبق، (تنسب إليه قلعة جعبر) على الفرات، (لاستيلائه عليها) وتملكه لها،

And it is said: Qushayr, and he is the Amir Saabiq al-Din Ja'bar ibn Saabaq, (to him is attributed Ja'bar Castle) on the Euphrates, (due to his taking possession of it) and owning it,

قتله السلطان ملكشاه السلجوقي لما قدم على حلب؛ لأنه بلغه أن ولديه يقطعان الطريق، وذالك سنة 479 ه.

Sultan Malikshah al-Seljuqi killed him when he came to Aleppo; because it reached him that his two sons were highway robbers, and that was in the year 479 AH.

ويقال لهاذه القلعة أيضا: الدوسرية، لأن دوسر غلام ملك الحيرة النعمان بن المنذر بناها، كذا في تاريخ الذهبي.

And this castle is also called: al-Dawsariyya, because Dawser, a slave of the king of Hira, al-Nu'man ibn al-Mundhir, built it, as stated in the history of al-Dhahabi.

ومن ينسب إلى هاذه القلعة البرهان إبراهيم بن عمر بن إبراهيم بن خليل الجعبري الخليلي، المقرىء، الشافعي، ولد بها، وتوفي بالخليل سنة 732 ه.

And among those who are attributed to this castle is al-Burhan Ibrahim ibn Umar ibn Ibrahim ibn Khalil al-Ja'bari al-Khalili, the reciter, the Shafi'i, born there, and died in al-Khalil in the year 732 AH.

ويقال: ضربه فجعبره أي (صرعه).

And it is said: he struck him and Ja'barahu, meaning (he knocked him down).

والجعبرية: القصيرة الدميمة)، بالدال المهملة، (كالجعبرة)،

And al-Ja'bariyya: the short and unattractive), with the unpointed dal, (like al-Ja'bara),

قال رؤبة بن العجاج يصف نساء: يمسين عن قس الأذى غوافلا لا جعبريات ولا طهاملا

Ru'ba ibn al-'Ajjaj said, describing women: They spend the evening heedless of harm, neither short and stocky nor tall and slender.

الجعنبار، وقع في كلامهم، نقله الزبيدي ولمي فسره، وهو القصير الغليظ، وقد نبه عليه شيخنا رحمه الله تعالى.

Al-Ja'anbaar, it occurred in their speech, narrated by al-Zubaidi without explanation, and it means the short and stout, and our shaykh, may God have mercy on him, pointed it out.