ز ب ر

ز ب ر • (z-b-r)

1. putting pieces in place (with connotations of stonework, writing, or trimming trees)

• Form I: زَبَرَ‎ (zabara, “to case with stones; to write; to prune”)
  • Verbal noun: زَبْر‎ (zabr)
  • Active participle: زَابِر‎ (zābir)
  • Passive participle: مَزْبُور‎ (mazbūr)
• Form II: زَبَّرَ‎ (zabbara, “to write; to prune”)
  • Verbal noun: تَزْبِير‎ (tazbīr)
  • Active participle: مُزَبِّر‎ (muzabbir)
  • Passive participle: مُزَبَّر‎ (muzabbar)
• Form IV: أَزْبَرَ‎ (ʔazbara, “to become large in body”)
  • Verbal noun: إِزْبَار‎ (ʔizbār)
  • Active participle: مُزْبِر‎ (muzbir)
• Form VII: اِنْزَبَرَ‎ (inzabara, “to be pruned”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْزِبَار‎ (inzibār)
  • Active participle: مُنْزَبِر‎ (munzabir)

Nouns and adjectives

• زَبْر‎ (zabr, “stones”)
• زَبْرَة‎ (zabra, “extremity of a branch, what one prunes”)
• زُبْرَة‎ (zubra, “morsel, piece; piece of iron; the upper part of the back”)
• زَبَّار‎ (zabbār, “who prunes, pruner”)
• زَبَّارَة‎ (zabbāra, “billhook”)
• مِزْبَر‎ (mizbar, “billhook”)
• زَبُور‎ (zabūr, “written composition”)
• زَبِير‎ (zabīr, “reliable”)
• زِئْبِر‎ (ziʔbir, “fluff, down, nap (on a garment)”)
• أَزْبَر‎ (ʔazbar, “large in the upper part of the back”)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ز ب ر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 578–579
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “ز ب ر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 221–222
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ز ب ر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 969–970
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ز ب ر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1210-1211