عبرة

From the root ع ب ر (ʕ b r). Compare to عَبْر (ʕabr, “crossing”).

• IPA^(key): /ʕib.ra/

عِبْرَة • (ʕibra) f (plural عِبْرَات (ʕibrāt) or عِبَر (ʕibar))

1. example, lesson, warning
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:111:

     لَقَدْ كَانَ فِي قَصَصِهِمْ عِبْرَةٌ لِأُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ

     laqad kāna fī qaṣaṣihim ʕibratun li-ʔulī l-ʔalbābi

     There is a lesson in the stories of such people for those who understand.

     Translated by Muhammad Abdel-Haleem

2. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   اَلْعِبْرَةُ بِالْكَيْفِ لَا بِالْكَمِّ.

   al-ʕibratu bi-l-kayfi lā bi-l-kammi.

   What matters is quality, not quantity.

• اَلْعِبْرَةُ بِعُمُومِ اللَّفْظِ لَا بِخُصُوصِ السَّبَبِ (al-ʕibratu biʕumūmi l-lafẓi lā biḵuṣūṣi s-sababi)

• → Azerbaijani: ibrət
• → Kazakh: ғибрат (ğibrat)
• → Northern Kurdish: îbret
• → Ottoman Turkish: عبرت (ʿibret)

  > Turkish: ibret (inherited)

• → Tatar: гыйбрәт (ğıybrät), ğibrät
• → Uyghur: ئىبرەت (ibret)
• → Uzbek: ibrat

عَبْرَة • (ʕabra) f (plural عَبَرَات (ʕabarāt) or عَبَر (ʕabar) or عِبَر (ʕibar))

1. a tear before it overflows, a sobbing, the first sign of weeping
   • a. 750, unknown, quoted by Kitāb al-ʿAyn and Taḏhīb al-Luḡa:

     فَفَاضَت دُمُوعُ الْجَحْمَتَيْنِ بِعَبْرَةٍ … عَلَى الزُبِّ حَتَّى الزُبِّ فِي المَاءِ غَامِس

     fa-fāḍat dumūʕu l-jaḥmatayni bi-ʕabratin … ʕalā z-zubbi ḥattā z-zubbi fī l-māʔi ḡāmis

     And the tears of the two eyes overflowed without sobbing … over the beard, until the beard was dipping into water

   • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 86:

     أسندتْ رأسها إلى صدري وسالت عبراتها.

     She leant her head on my chest where slight tears flew.

• اِعْتِبَار (iʕtibār)
• مُعْتَبِر (muʕtabir)
• مُعْتَبَر (muʕtabar)
• عِبْرِيّ (ʕibriyy)
• اِعْتَبَرَ (iʕtabara, “to consider, to examine”)

• “عبرة” in Almaany