عِبْرَةٌ

a subst. from الاِعْتِبَارُ; An admonition, or exhortation: (Bd in iii. 11): an admonition, or exhortation, by which one takes warning or example: (Jel in xxiii. 21:) a thing by the state, or condition, of which one is admonished, or reminded, and guided, or directed: (Bd in xxiii. 21:) i. q. اِعْتِبَارٌ [lit. a being admonished, or reminded, &c.; but meaning a cause of being admonished, &c.; i. e. a warning, or an example]: (Jel in xvi. 68:) or اِعْتِبَارٌ بِمَا مَضَى i. e. اِتّعَاظٌ and تَذَكُّرٌ [meaning, in like manner, a cause of being admonished, or reminded, by what has passed]: (Msb:) an indication, or evidence, (Bd and Jel in xxiv. 44, and Bd in xvi. 68,) whereby one passes from ignorance to knowledge: (Bd in xvi. 68:) a state [of things or circumstances] whereby, from the knowledge of what is seen, one arrives at the knowledge of what is not seen; as also اِعْتِبَارٌ: (B, TA:) and a wonderful thing [apparently such as serves as a warning or an example]: (A, K:) plural عِبَرٌ. (Msb, TA.)

And The account, or estimation, or regard, in which a thing is held in respect of predicamental order; as also اِعْتِبَارٌ. (Msb.) [Hence the common phrase لَا عِبْرَةَ بِهِ, meaning No regard is due to it.]