زُنْبُورٌ

[The hornet, or hornets; a large sort of wasp;] a stinging kind of fly; (K;) a certain kind of flying thing that stings; (T, TA;) i. q. دَبْرٌ, (S,) or دُبُورٌ; (TA;) and ↓ زُنْبُورَةٌ signifies the same, (K,) [or apparently is the n. un.,] and so does ↓ زِنْبَارٌ; (S, K,) a dialect var. mentioned by ISk: (S:) [being a coll. gen. n.,] زنبور is [sometimes] made of the feminine gender: the plural is زَنَابِيرُ: (S:) and الزَّنَابِيرُ sometimes means the flies of the meadows or gardens (ذُبَابُ الرَّوْضِ). (Ham p. 324.)

Also A young ass that is able to bear burdens. (K.)

And A large rat: plural زَنَابِرُ, occurring in poetry [apparently for زَنَابِيرُ]. (TA.)

Also, [as an epithet,] Light, or active; clever, or ingenious; (K, TA;) mentioned by Abu-l-Jarráh, from a man of the Benoo-Kiláb, and he adds that it means light, or active; (TA;) quick in reply; (K, TA;) and so ↓ زُنْبُرٌ. (K.)

-A2- Also, and ↓ زِنبِيرٌ and ↓ زِنْبَارٌ, A certain tree, (K, TA,) of large size, (TA,) resembling the دُلْب [or plane-tree], (K, TA,) but not wide, the leaves of which are like those of the nut-tree in appearance and scent, having blossoms like those of the عُشَر [q. v.], white tinged [with another colour], and having a fruit exactly like the olive, which, when fully ripe, becomes intensely black and very sweet, and is eaten by men like ripe dates, has a stone like that of the غُبَيْرَاء [or fruit of the service-tree], and dyes the mouth like as does the mulberry: it is planted. (TA.)

Also, the same three words, A species of the تِين [or fig], called by the people of the towns and villages the تِين حُلْوَانِىّ; (IAar, K, TA;) one of the strange trees of the desert: plural زَنَابِيرُ. (IAar, TA.)