كَبِيرَة

A foul, or an abominable, sin, or crime, or offence, forbidden by the law, of great magnitude; such as murder and adultery or forni- cation, and fleeing from an army proceeding against an enemy [of the Muslims], &c.; [opposite of صَغِيرَةٌ;] an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates: (TA:) and ↓ كِبْرٌ and ↓ كِبْرَةٌ [in like manner] signify a great sin, or crime, or offence, for which one deserves punishment: (M, K:) the ة is to give intensiveness to the signification: (TA:) or ↓ كِبْرٌ signifies [simply] a sin, a crime, or an offence, for which one deserves punishment, [as كَبِيرَةٌ is said, not well, to signify, in the Msb,] and is from كَبِيرَةٌ, like خِطْ from خَطِيْيءَةٌ: (TA:) plural of the first, كَبَايءِرُ, (Msb, TA,) and كَبِيرَاتٌ also occurs. (Msb.)

And see كَبِيرٌ.