probe, examine

, (S, M, A, &c.,) aor. (S, M, Msb) and , (M, TA,) inf. n. سَبْرٌ; (S, M, Msb, K;) and ↓ استبرهُ; (K;) He probed the wound; measured its depth with the مِسْبَار, i. e., with an iron or other instrument; (A, Mgh:) tried, (K,) or examined, (S,) or endeavoured to learn, (Msb,) its depth; (S, Msb, K;) examined its extent. (M.) ― -b2- سَبَرَهُ (assumed tropical:) He determined, or computed by conjecture or by the eye, its measure, quantity, size, or bulk. (M, K, * TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) He tried, proved, or tested, it; proved it by experiment or experience; (S, M, TA;) namely, anything; as also ↓ استبرهُ. (S.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) He elicited its true, or real, condition. (TA.) ― -b5- It is related in the trad. of the cave, that Aboo-Bekr said to Mohammad, لَا تَدْخُلْهُ حَتَّى أَسْبُرَهُ قَبْلَكَ (assumed tropical:) Do not thou enter it until I explore it before thee, and see if there be in it any one, or anything that may hurt. (TA.) ― -b6- مَفَازَةٌ لَا تُسْبَرُ (tropical:) A desert of which the extent cannot be known. (A.) ― -b7- سَبَرْتُ فُلَانًا (tropical:) [I searched into such a one]. (A.) — فُيهِ خَيْرٌ كَثِيرٌ لَا يُسْبَرُ (tropical:) [In him is much good, the extent of which cannot be known]. (A.) ― -b8- أَمْرٌ عَظِيمٌ لَا يُسْبَرُ (tropical:) [A great affair, of which the uttermost cannot be known]. (A.) ― -b9- اُسْبُرْ لِى مَا عِنْدَهُ (assumed tropical:) Learn thou for me what he has [in his mind, or in his possession]. (M.) ― -b10- سَبَرْتُ القَوْمَ, aor. and , inf. n. سَبْرٌ, (assumed tropical:) I observed the people attentively, with investigation, one after another, that I might know their number. (Msb.)

see 1, in two places.

: see سِبْرٌ. -A2- Also The lion. (El-Mu- ärrij, K.)

(S, M, K) and ↓ سَبْرٌ (M, K) The source, or origin, [of a thing,] syn. أَصْلٌ: (M, K:) pl. of both أَسْبَارٌ. (M.) ― -b2- (tropical:) Form, or appearance; figure, feature, or lineaments; external state or condition; state with regard to apparel and the like; (S, M, K;) or goodly form or appearance &c.; (K;) aspect; garb, or habit; (TA;) colour, or complexion; (M, K;) beauty; (K;) brightness of countenance: (M:) pl. of both as above. (M.) ― -b3- IAar says, I heard Aboo-Ziyád El-Kilábee say, I returned from Marw to the desert, and one of its people said to me, أَمَّا السِّبْرُ فَحَضَرِىٌّ وَأَمَّا اللِّسَانُ فَبَدَوِىٌّ (tropical:) As to garb and appearance, [thou art like] an inhabitant of a town; but as to tongue, an inhabitant of the desert. (S, * TA.) ― -b4- You say, فُلَانٌ حَسَنُ الحِبْرِ وَالسِّبْرِ (tropical:) Such a one is beautiful and of goodly appearance. (S.) [See also حِبْرٌ.] ― -b5- A woman of the desert said, أَعْجَبَنِى سِبْرُ فُلَانٍ (tropical:) The good condition, and flourishing state of body, of such a one pleased me: and رَأَيْتُهُ سَيِّيأَ السِّبْرِ (tropical:) I saw him to have an altered and ill appearance of body: thus she assigned to سبر two significations. (TA.) ― -b6- One says also, إِنَّهُ لَحَسَنُ السِّبْرِ (tropical:) Verily he is goodly in complexion and appearance. (TA.) ― -b7- سِبْرٌ also signifies (tropical:) A characteristic by which one knows the generousness or ungenerousness of a beast. (AZ, M.) ― -b8- And (assumed tropical:) One's knowledge of the fruitfulness or unfruitfulness [or the good or bad condition] of a beast. (AZ, TA.) ― -b9- Also (assumed tropical:) Likeness; syn. شَبَهٌ. (K, TA. [In some copies of the K, سُبَّةٌ, which is an evident mistake.]) So in the phrase, occurring in a trad., غَلَبَ عَلَيْهِمْ سِبْرُ أَبِى بَكْرٍ (assumed tropical:) The likeness (شَبَه) of Aboo-Bekr predominated in them. (IAar, TA.) One says also, عَرَفَهُ بِسِبْرِ أَبِيهِ (assumed tropical:) He knew him by the appearance and likeness of his father. (TA.) ― -b10- Also the former (سِبْرٌ), Enmity, (K,) accord. to El-Muärrij; but Az says that this is strange. (TA.)

A cold morning, between daybreak and sunrise: (S, M, A, Mgh, K:) or from the time a little before daybreak to daybreak: or from daybreak to sunrise: (M:) or a cold morning during the period next after sunrise: (Msb:) pl. سَبَرَاتٌ: (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K:) which latter is also expl. as signifying the intenseness of the cold of winter, and of the year. (TA.)

and سِبْرَاتٌ and سُبْرُوتٌ and سِبْرِيتٌ: &c.: see art. سبرت.

Poor; (K, TA;) possessing no property: like سُبْرُوتٌ, in this sense, and in that following. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) Land in which is no herbage. (K, TA.)

and ↓ مِسْبَارٌ A probe; an instrument with which a wound is probed; (S, M, K;) as also ↓ مِسْبَرٌ: (Ham p. 818:) a twist like a wick, (T, Msb,) or a similar thing, (Msb,) which is put into a wound (T, Msb) to ascertain its depth; (Msb;) an iron or other instrument with which the depth of a wound is measured: (A, Mgh:) pl. of the first, سُبُرٌ; and of ↓ the second, مَسَابِيرُ. (Msb.) It is said in a prov., مَا عُرِفَ ↓ لَوْ لَا المِسْبَارُ غَوْرُ الجُرْحِ [Were it not for the probe, the depth of the wound would not be known]. (A.) And ↓ بَعِيدُ المِسْبَارِ is applied as an epithet to a woman's vulva [or vagina, in an obvious sense,] by Ibn-Habeeb: and accord. to the K, to a woman [in allusion to her vagina]. (TA in art. خجى.)

an irreg. pl. of سُبْرُوتٌ: see the latter in art. سبرت.

A coat of mail made of slender rings, and strongly: (K:) so called in relation to the king Sáboor. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) or from Sáboor, a province of Persia, (Mgh, Msb,) A thin, or delicate, kind of garment or cloth, (IDrd, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) of excellent quality: (K:) and anything thin, or delicate. (M.) Whence the prov., عَرْضٌ سَابِرِيٌّ (S, M, * K *) A slight exhibition: (M:) [see variations of this phrase in art. عرض, under عَرَضَ الشَّىْءَ:] said to him to whom a thing is shown in a slight manner: (S:) because the garment or cloth called سابرىّ, (S, K,) being of the best of qualities, (S,) is desired when exhibited in the slightest manner. (S, K. [See the first paragraph in art. عرض; and see also عَرَضَ عَلَىَّ سَوْمَ عَالَّةٍ in the first paragraph of art. سوم.]) ― -b3- A certain sort of dates, (S, Msb, K,) of good quality. (Msb, K.) It is said that the best of the dates in El-Koofeh are the نِرْسِيَان and the سابرىّ. (S.) ― -b4- نَخْلَةٌ سَابِرِيَّةٌ A palmtree of which the unripe dates are yellow and somewhat long. (AHát, Msb.)

(assumed tropical:) [The internal state or condition of a man]. You say, حَمَدْتُ مَسْبَرَهُ and مَخَبَرَهُ (assumed tropical:) [I praised his internal state or condition]: (S:) and ↓ مَسْبَرَةٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The internal state or condition; an internal, or intrinsic, quality; or the intrinsic, or real, as opposed to the apparent, state, or aspect. (TA.)

: see سِبَارٌ.