دبر

From Proto-Afroasiatic *dâb-. Compare دُبْر (dubr, “back”), perhaps cognate with Hebrew דִּבֵּר (“to speak”).

دَبَرَ • (dabara) I (non-past يَدْبُرُ (yadburu), verbal noun دُبُور (dubūr))

1. to be hindmost, to come behind, to follow

دَبَرَ • (dabara) I (non-past يَدْبُرُ (yadburu), verbal noun دَبْر (dabr) or دُبُور (dubūr))

1. to turn the back
2. to elapse, to pass (of time)
3. to grow old, to age
4. to veer to the west
5. to be turned backwards
6. to fall behind the aim
7. to take away

دَبِرَ • (dabira) I (non-past يَدْبَرُ (yadbaru), verbal noun دَبَر (dabar))

1. to have galls in the back, to have sores in the back

دَبَّرَ • (dabbara) II (non-past يُدَبِّرُ (yudabbiru), verbal noun تَدْبِير (tadbīr))

1. to arrange, to dispose, to plan, to prepare, to organize, to hatch, to contrive, to devise, to forecast
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 32:5:

     يُدَبِّرُ الْأَمْرَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الْأَرْضِ ثُمَّ يَعْرُجُ إِلَيْهِ فِي يَوْمٍ كَانَ مِقْدَارُهُ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ مِّمَّا تَعُدُّونَ

     yudabbiru al-ʔamra mina s-samāʔi ʔilā l-ʔarḍi ṯumma yaʕruju ʔilayhi fī yawmin kāna miqdāruhu ʔalfa sanatin mimmā taʕuddūna

     He arranges [each] matter from the heaven to the earth; then it will ascend to Him in a Day, the extent of which is a thousand years of those which you count.

2. to set free
3. to direct, to manage, to regulate

دَبْر • (dabr) m

1. verbal noun of دَبَرَ (dabara) (form I)

دَبَر • (dabar) m

1. verbal noun of دَبِرَ (dabira) (form I)

دُبْر or دُبُر • (dubr or dubur) m (plural أَدْبَار (ʔadbār))

1. back, back side, reverse
2. buttocks
3. anus
4. rear part
5. end, tail

دِبْر • (dibr) m (plural دُبُور (dubūr) or دِبَار (dibār))

1. swarm, flock, drove
2. great wealth, much property

دَبِر • (dabir)

1. having galls in the back

From Arabic دَبَّرَ (dabbara).

• IPA^(key): /dab.bar/, [ˈdab.bar]

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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دبّر • (dabbar) II (present بدبّر (bidabber))

1. to manage, to arrange, to sort out, to get (something) done

   Synonym: لحق (liḥiʔ)