عِبْرَة

EaborapN * : see EibaArapN . -A2- Also A tear: (TA:) or a tear before it overflows: or a [ sobbing, or] reiteration [ of the sound ] of weeping in the bosom: (A, K:) or an overflowing of tears without the sound of weeping: (TA:) or a flowing, or an oozing, of tears: (S, O:) or grief without weeping: (A, K:) pl. EabaraAtN (O, K) and ↓ EabarN , (so in the O, [but this, if correct, is a quasi-pl. n.,]) or EibarN . (Thus in copies of the K.) Of the first meaning, the following is an ex.: waA_in~a $ifaAy^iY EaborapN lawo safaHotuhaA [ And verily my cure would be a tear if I shed it ]: and of the last, the following is an ex.: laka maA A^abokiY walaA Eaborapa biY or, as some relate it, wlA Ebrp liY ; and the meaning is, For thy sake I weep, but there is grief in me for myself: so says As: (TA:) or in this saying, which is a prov., mA may be redundant, or it may be what is termed maSodariy~ap ; and the meaning is, For thee I weep, or for thee is my weeping, I [myself] having no need of weeping. (Meyd.)

EiborapN * a subst. from AlAiEotibaAru ; An admonition, or exhortation: (Bd in iii. 11): an admonition, or exhortation, by which one takes warning or example: (Jel in xxiii. 21:) a thing by the state, or condition, of which one is admonished, or reminded, and guided, or directed: (Bd in xxiii. 21:) i. q. ↓ AiEotibaArN [lit. a being admonished, or reminded, &c.; but meaning a cause of being admonished, &c.; i. e. a warning, or an example ]: (Jel in xvi. 68:) or AiEotibaArN bimaA maDaY i. e. Ait~EaAZN and ta*ak~urN [meaning, in like manner, a cause of being admonished, or reminded, by what has passed ]: (Msb:) an indication, or evidence, (Bd and Jel in xxiv. 44, and Bd in xvi. 68,) whereby one passes from ignorance to knowledge: (Bd in xvi. 68:) a state [ of things or circumstances ] whereby, from the knowledge of what is seen, one arrives at the knowledge of what is not seen; as also ↓ AiEotibaArN : (B, TA:) and a wonderful thing [app. such as serves as a warning or an example ]: (A, K:) pl. EibarN . (Msb, TA.) ― -b2- And The account, or estimation, or regard, in which a thing is held in respect of predicamental order; as also ↓ AiEotibaArN . (Msb.) [Hence the common phrase laA Eiborapa bihi , meaning No regard is due to it. ] -A2- See also EibaArapN .