عبرة

From the root ع ب ر‎ (ʕ-b-r). Compare to عَبْر‎ (ʕabr, “crossing”).

• IPA^(key): /ʕib.ra/

عِبْرَة • (ʕibra) f (plural عِبْرَات‎ (ʕibrāt) or عِبَر‎ (ʕibar))

1. example, lesson, warning
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:111:

     ‏لَقَدْ كَانَ فِي قَصَصِهِمْ عِبْرَةٌ لِأُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ‎

     laqad kāna fī qaṣaṣihim ʕibratun li-ʔulī l-ʔalbābi

     There is a lesson in the stories of such people for those who understand.

     Translated by Muhammad Abdel-Haleem

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   ‏اَلْعِبْرَةُ بِالْكَيْفِ لَا بِالْكَمِّ.‎‎

   al-ʕibratu bi-l-kayfi lā bi-l-kammi.

   What matters is quality, not quantity.

• اَلْعِبْرَةُ بِعُمُومِ اللَّفْظِ لَا بِخُصُوصِ السَّبَبِ‎ (al-ʕibratu biʕumūmi l-lafẓi lā biḵuṣūṣi s-sababi)

عَبْرَة • (ʕabra) f (plural عَبَرَات‎ (ʕabarāt) or عَبَر‎ (ʕabar) or عِبَر‎ (ʕibar))

1. a tear before it overflows, a sobbing, the first sign of weeping
   • a. 750, unknown, quoted by Kitāb al-ʿAyn and Taḏhīb al-Luḡa:

     ‏فَفَاضَت دُمُوعُ الْجَحْمَتَيْنِ بِعَبْرَةٍ … عَلَى الزُبِّ حَتَّى الزُبِّ فِي المَاءِ غَامِس‎

     fa-fāḍat dumūʕu l-jaḥmatayni bi-ʕabratin … ʕalā z-zubbi ḥattā z-zubbi fī l-māʔi ḡāmis

     And the tears of the two eyes overflowed without sobbing … over the beard, until the beard was dipping into water

• اِعْتِبَار‎ (iʕtibār)
• مُعْتَبِر‎ (muʕtabir)
• مُعْتَبَر‎ (muʕtabar)
• عِبْرِيّ‎ (ʕibriyy)
• اِعْتَبَرَ‎ (iʕtabara, “to consider, to examine”)

• “عبرة” in Almaany