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دبر

“دبر” is an Arabic word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to be hindmost, to come behind, to follow
  2. to turn the back
  3. to elapse, to pass (of time)
  4. to grow old, to age
  5. to veer to the west
  6. to be turned backwards
  7. to fall behind the aim
  8. to take away
  9. to have galls in the back, to have sores in the back
  10. to arrange, to dispose, to plan, to prepare, to organize, to hatch, to contrive, to devise, to forecast
  11. to set free
  12. to direct, to manage, to regulate

noun

  1. back, back side, reverse
  2. buttocks
  3. anus
  4. rear part
  5. end, tail
  6. swarm, flock, drove
  7. great wealth, much property

adjective

  1. having galls in the back

Etymology

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

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