أَوْبَرُ
1.
See وَبِرٌ.
2.
بَنَاتُ أَوْبَرَ, (As, A 'Obeyd, AHn, T, S, M, K,) and بَنَاتُ الأَوْبَرِ, (AZ, T, S, M,) the article being added by poetic license, (M,) A species of
كَمْأَة [or truffles], downy, (AZ, As, A 'Obeyd, T, S, M, [the epithet thus rendered is written in copies of the K مُزْغِبَةٌ, and in the T, S, M, مُزَغِّبَةٌ, but in article زغب in the TA it seems to be indicated that it is probably مُزْغِبَّةٌ,]) small, and of the colour of earth: (AZ, S, K:) or, according to AHn, truffles (كمأة) like pebbles, small, found in places where they have broken through the crust of the soil, in number from one to ten; they are bad in flavour; and are the first of
كمأة: or, as he says in another place, they are like
كمأة, but are not
كمأة; and they are small: (M: see also جَبْءٌ:]) n. un. إِبْنُ أَوْبَرَ. (As, A 'Obeyd, T.) You say, إِنَّ بَنِى فُلَانٍ مِثْلُ
بَنَاتِ أَوْبَرَ [Verily the sons of such a one are like benát-owbar]: one imagines that there is good in them [when there is none]. (M.) And لَقِيتُ
مَنْهُ بَنَاتَ أَوْبَرَ
I experienced from him [a disappointment, or] a calamity, or misfortune. (Sgh, K.)
3.
دَاهِيَةٌ وَبْرَاءُ, (S, A, article شعر), (tropical:) An evil, a foul, or an abominable, calamity, or misfortune. (TA, voce أَشْعَرُ, q. v.)