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The corpus record — Arabic

مُبْصِر

mubsir

muboSirN mbSr : see baSiyrN . ― -b2- [Hence,] (tropical:) A watcher, or guard, set in a garden. (A.) ― -b3- And AlmuboSiru (assumed tropical:) The lion, which sees his prey from afar, and pursues it. (K.) -A2- [ Making, or causing, to see, or to have sight: and hence, giving light; shining; illumini

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Where it lives

  • The Quran 4 · 0.31/10k

What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

muboSirN mbSr : see baSiyrN . ― -b2- [Hence,] (tropical:) A watcher, or guard, set in a garden. (A.) ― -b3- And AlmuboSiru (assumed tropical:) The lion, which sees his prey from afar, and pursues it. (K.) -A2- [ Making, or causing, to see, or to have sight: and hence, giving light; shining; illumining: and conspicuous; manifest; evident; apparent: also making, or causing, to have mental perception, or knowledge, or skill. ] waAln~ahaAra muboSirFA , in the Kur [x. 68, &c. (in the CK ↓ wAln~hAru muboSarFA )], means, And the day [ causing to see; or] in which one sees; (K;) giving light; shining; or illumining. (TA.) And falam~aA jaA='atohumo A=yaAtunaA muboSirapF , also in the Kur [xxvii. 13], (assumed tropical:) And when our signs came to them, making them to have sight, or to have mental perception, or knowledge, or skill; expl. by tajoEaluhumo buSaraA='a : (Akh, S, K:) or giving light; shining; or illumining: (S:) or being conspicuous, manifest, or evident: or we may read ↓ muboSarapF , meaning having become manifest, or evident. (Zj, M.) And A=tayonaA vamuwda Aln~aAqapa muboSirapF , also in the Kur [xvii. 61], (assumed tropical:) And we gave to Thamood the she-camel, by means of which they had sight, or mental perception, or knowledge, or skill: (Akh:) or a sign giving light, shining, or illumining; (Fr, T;) and this is the right explanation: (T:) or a manifest, or an evident, sign: (Zj, L, K:) and some read ↓ muboSarapF , meaning having become manifest, so as to be seen. (Zj, L.) And jaEalonaA A=yapa Aln~ahaAri muboSirapF , also in the Kur [xvii. 13], (tropical:) We have made the sign of the day manifest, or apparent. (K, TA.) -A3- One who hangs upon his door a baSiyrap , i. e. an oblong piece of cloth (K, TA) of cotton or other material. (TA.)

In the wild

Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.