كَبِير

kabiyrN * Great [ in body, or corporeal substance, and in estimation or rank or dignity; contr. of SagiyrN , but see EaZiymN ]; (S, K;) as also kibiyrN , as asserted by En-Nawawee and others, (TA,) and ↓ kubaArN (S, K) [in an intensive sense, like EuTaAmN ,] and ↓ kaAbirN and ↓ kub~aArN : (K:) or the last signifies excessively great: (S, TA:) and kaAbirN is an epithat applied to a man, and signifying great in dignity and nobility; (S, TA;) or great and noble; (Msb;) or one overcoming in greatness; (A;) or a lord, or chief; and the greatest, or oldest, ancestor: (AA:) the fem. [of kabiyrN ] is with p : (K:) and the pl. is kibaArN (S, K) and kubaraA='u , applied to men, (TA,) and makobuwraA='u , (S, * K,) [or rather the last is a quasi-pl. n.,] like ma$oyuwxaA='u ; [see $ayoxN ;] (TA;) and [of kub~aArN ] kub~aAruwna . (K.) [See also A^akobaru , and mutakab~irN .] You say tawaAravuwA ↓ A@lomajoda kaAbirFA Eano kaAbirK They inherited by degrees dignity, or nobility, one great in dignity and nobility from another great in dignity and nobility: (S:) or one great and noble from another great and noble: (Msb:) or Eano is here used in the sense of baEoda [ after ]: (TA voce TabaqN :) or one overcoming in greatness from another overcoming in greatness. (A.) [In the A and Msb, instead of twArvwA , I find warivuwA .] ― -b2- Great, or advanced, in age; old: (A, Msb, TA:) and also big; meaning full-grown; and adolescent: (see kabira :) occurring in apposition to baAligN in art. brk in the S; and often, like baAligN , when applied to a human being, signifying one who has attained to puberty; opposed to SagiyrN :] fem. with p : and pl. kibaArN . (Msb.) ― -b3- [Hence,] A teacher, and master: so in the Kur, xx. 74, and xxvi. 48: (Ks:) and the most knowing, or learned, of a people: so in the Kur, xii. 80. (Mujáhid.) ― -b4- Difficult, severe, grievous, distressing, afflictive, troublesome, or burdensome: (TA:) fem. with p ; occurring in this sense in the Kur, ii. 42. (Bd, TA.) [The fem. is often used in the present day as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates, meaning, An affair, or a matter, that is difficult, severe, grievous, &c.] ― -b5- Alkabiyru as an epithet applied to God is syn. with AlEaZiymu [signifying The Incomparably-great ]. (TA in art. EZm .)