عِبَارَةٌ
1.
Speech that passes from the tongue of the speaker to the ear of the hearer. (TA.)
2.
[And hence, A passage in a book or writing.]
3.
[Hence also,] A word, an expression, or a phrase. (Kull p. 60.)
4.
And [An explanation, or interpretation;] a subst. from عَبَّرَ عَنْهُ; as also
عَبَارَةٌ, (L, K, TA, [the former only in the CK,]) and
عَبْرَةٌ or
عِبْرَةٌ, according to different copies of the K. (TA.) You say, هُوَ حَسَنُ
العِبَارَةِ, and, according to the M,
العَبَارَةِ also, i. e. He has a good faculty of explaining, or of diction, or of speaking perspicuously. (Msb.) [And هٰذَا عِبَارَةٌ عَنْ كَذَا
This is a word, or an expression, or a phrase, for, or denoting, such a thing; lit., an explanation of such a thing.]
5.
Also A thing that is made a condition: or a thing that is made account of, or esteemed, or regarded as being of importance. (Msb.)