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Morphology · Lane's Lexicon · CC BY-SA 3.0

From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root ضمر. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

ضَمَرَ , (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. ضَمُرَ ; (S, Msb, K;) and ضَمُرَ ; (S, Msb, K;) inf. n. ضُمُورٌ , of the former, and ضُمْرٌ , (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) of the former also, (A, Mgh,) or of the latter, (Msb,) [also written ضُمُرٌ , (see an ex., voce نَهَارٌ ,)] He (a horse, [&c.,] S, A, &c.) was, or became, lean, or light of flesh: (S:) or slender, and lean: (Msb:) or lean, and lank in the belly: (A, K:) or lank in the belly by reason of leanness: (Mgh:) and ↓ اضطمر signifies the same. (S, K.) [See also 5 and 8.] ― -b2- Also, inf. n. ضُمُورٌ , He became lean and weak. (TA.) ― -b3- ضَمُرَ العِنَبُ (assumed tropical:) The grapes became withered, so as to be neither fresh grapes nor raisins. (Sgh.) ― -b4- ضَمَرَتِ الحِنْطَةُ (assumed tropical:) The wheat, being parched over the fire, became contracted and small. (Mgh.)

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ضمّرهُ , inf. n. تَضْمِيرٌ , He made him (a horse) lean, or light of flesh; [&c.;] as also ↓ اضمرهُ . (S.) ― -b2- He prepared him (i. e. a horse) for racing, [or for a military expedition, (see مُضَمِّرٌ ,)] by feeding him with food barely sufficient to sustain him, after he had become fat; as also ↓ اضمرهُ . (Msb:) he fed him with food barely sufficient to sustain him, after he had become fat; as also ↓ اضمرهُ : (K:) or he fed him with fodder so that he became fat, and then reduced him to food barely sufficient to sustain him; which is done during forty days: (S:) or he saddled him, and put on him a housing, in order that he might sweat under it, and so lose his flabbiness, and become firm in flesh; and then mounted upon him a light boy or young man, to make him run, but not to make him go so quick a pace as that which is termed عَنَق ; by the doing of which, one becomes in no fear of his losing his breath in running, and a quick run does not cut him short: this (says AM) is what I have seen the Arabs practise; and they term it تَضْمِيرٌ , and also ↓ مِضْمَارٌ . (T, L.) ― -b3- Also He, or it, weakened, and subdued, and diminished, him: and the same signification is assigned to it [tropically] when the objective complement is a word denoting a sensation or passion. (TA.) ― -b4- التَّضْمِيرُ also signifies The plaiting well, and the anointing well, the lock of hair termed ضَمِيرَة . (TA.)

أَضْمَرَ see 2, in three places. -A2- اضمرهُ signifies also He determined, or resolved, upon it, فِى ضَمِيرِهِ in his heart, or mind. (Msb.) ― -b2- He conceived it in his heart, or mind. (MA, KL.) ― -b3- He concealed it, syn. أَسَرَّهُ , (A,) or أَخْفَاهُ , (K,) فِى قَلْبِهِ in his heart, (A,) or فى نَفْسِهِ in his mind. (S.) ― -b4- [And hence, He suppressed it, (namely a word or the like,) meaning it to be understood. ― -b5- And hence also اضمر meaning He made use of a pronoun.] ― -b6- And اضمر صَرْفَ الحَرْفِ [He suppressed the vowel of the final letter;] he made the movent [final] letter quiescent. (TA.) ― -b7- And أَضْمَرَتُهُ البِلَادُ (tropical:) The lands, or countries, hid him, by his having travelled far: (A:) and اضمرته الأَرْضُ (assumed tropical:) the earth hid him, either by reason of travel, or by death. (K, TA.) -A3- اضمر is also syn. with اِسْتَقْصَى [q. v.]. (O, K.) [Accord. to the TK, one says اضمر الشَّىْءَ meaning استقصاهُ .]

تضمّر وَجْهُهُ His face became shrivelled, or contracted, by emaciation. (Sgh, L, K.)

انضمر It (a branch, or twig,) became dried up. (TA.)

اضطمر : see 1. ― -b2- Also He, (a horse,) after having been fed until he had become fat, was reduced to food barely sufficient to sustain him. (TA.) [See 2.]

ضَمْرٌ : see ضَامِرٌ , in two places. ― -b2- Hence, in the opinion of ISd, as he says in the M, it is also applied to a horse as meaning دَقِيقُ الحَجَاجَيْنِ [i. e. Thin in the bones surrounding, or projecting over, the cavities of the eyes: in the TA, الهجاجين , an obvious mistranscription; and in the TK, الحجاجتين , which is also wrong]: on the authority of Kr: in the copies of the K, الحَاجِبَيْنِ . (TA.) ― -b3- And Narrow; (O, K;) applied to a place. (O.) ― -b4- And i. q. ↓ ضَمِيرٌ [app. in the first of the senses assigned to the latter below]. (O, K: in the CK ضِمِّير .) See also. مُضْمَرٌ .

ضَمْرَانٌ (S, O, K) and ↓ ضُمْرَانٌ (TA) A certain plant, (S, O, K,) of the shrub-kind ( مِنْ دِقِّ الشَّجَرِ ): (K:) or of the kind called حَمْض : AM says, it is not of the shrub-kind, and has [what are termed] هَدَب [q. v.] like the هَدَب of the أَرْطَى : (TA:) AHn says, it resembles the رِمْث , except that it is yellow ( أَصْفَرُ [app. a mistranscription for أَصْغَرُ i. e. smaller]), and it has little wood, [and] the small and dry parts of its branches are fed upon [by the camels] ( يُحْتَطَبُ ): he adds, on the authority of the ancient Arabs of the desert, that it is [of the kind called] حَمْض , green, lank, pleasing to the camels: and Aboo-Nasr says that it is of the kind called حَمْض . (O.) -A2- See also what next follows.

ضُمْرَانُ (A 'Obeyd, S, O, K, TA) and ↓ ضَمْرَان , thus, with fet-h, as said by As on the authority of ISk; each of the names of dogs; (TA;) a name of a male dog; (O, K;) not of a bitch, as J asserts it to be. (K.) -A2- See also the next preceding paragraph.

ضِمَارٌ A place, or a valley, that is depressed, concealing him who is journeying in it. (O.) [Accord. to the K, الضِّمَارُ is “ A place; ” i. e. the name of a certain place.] ― -b2- مَالٌ ضِمَارٌ Property of which one hopes not for the return: (K:) or absent property of which one hopes not for the return: (A 'Obeyd, Msb, TA:) if not absent, it is not thus called. (A 'Obeyd, TA.) ― -b3- دَيْنٌ ضِمَارٌ A debt of which the payment is not hoped for: (S:) or for the payment of which no period is fixed. (K, * TA.) ― -b4- عَطَا=ءٌ ضِمَارٌ A gift that is not hoped for. (A.) ― -b5- وَعْدٌ ضِمَارٌ , (S,) and عِدَةٌ ضِمَارٌ , (A, K, [ من العَذابِ in the CK being a mistranscription for مِنَ العِدَاتِ , as in other copies of the K and in the TA, in which latter is added that عِدَات is pl. of عِدَةٌ , which is syn. with وَعْدٌ ,]) A promise of which the fulfilment is not hoped for: (S, A:) or of which the fulfilment is delayed. (K.) ― -b6- ضِمَارٌ also signifies Anything of which one is not confident, or sure. (S.) ― -b7- And A debt of which the payment is deferred by the creditor to a future period; or a sale upon credit, in which the payment is deferred to a definite period; or a postponement, or delay, as to the time of the payment of a debt or of the prince of a thing sold &c.; syn. نَسِيْيءَةٌ . (Fr, TA.) ― -b8- Also Unseen; not apparent; contr. of عِيَانٌ . (K.) A poet says, censuring a certain man, وَعَيْنُهُ كَالكَالِيءِ الضِّمَارِ [And his present gift is a thing not hoped for, like the unseen debt of which the payment is deferred by the creditor:] meaning, his present gift is like the absent that is not hoped for. (TA.) ― -b9- ذَهَبُوا بِمَالِى ضِمَارًا means They took away my property by gaming. (Fr, TA.) -A2- Also A certain idol, which was worshipped by El-Abbás Ibn-Mirdás. (O, K, TA. [It is implied in the K that it is with the art. ال ; but it is not so accord. to the O and TA.])

ضَمِيرٌ A thing that thou concealest, or conceivest, or determinest upon, ( تُضْمِرُهُ ,) in thy heart, or mind: (Lth, TA:) a secret; syn. سِرٌّ : (K:) a subst. from أَضْمَرَ فِى نَفْسِهِ شَيْيءًا : (S:) pl. ضَمَايءِرُ . (S, K.) ― -b2- [Hence used as meaning A pronoun; which is also termed ↓ مُضْمَرٌ , and اِسْمٌ مُضْمَرٌ , lit. a concealed noun, i. e. a noun of which the signification is not shown by itself alone; opposed to مُظْهَرٌ : pl. of the first as above; and of the second مُضْمَرَاتٌ .] ― -b3- See also ضَمْرٌ . ― -b4- And الضَّمِيرُ signifies The heart [itself]; the mind; the recesses of the mind; the secret thoughts; or the soul; syn. قَلْبُ الاـِنْسَانِ , and بَاطِنُهُ , (Msb,) or دَاخِلُ الخَاطِرِ : (A, K:) pl. as above, (Msb, K,) the sing. being likened to سَرِيرَةٌ , of which the pl. is سَرَايءِرُ . (Msb.) [See also مُضْمَرٌ . And see an ex. in a verse cited in art. سيح , 7th conj.] -A2- Also Withered, or shrivelled, grapes, (O, K,) that are neither fresh grapes nor raisins. (O.)

لَقِيتُهُ بِالضُّمَيْرِ is a phrase mentioned by Sgh [in the O] as meaning I met him at sunset: but it is correctly [ بِالصُّمَيْرِ ,] with the unpointed ص . (TA.)

ضَمِيرَةٌ A lock, or plaited lock, of hair, such as is termed ضَفِيرَةٌ and غَدِيرَةٌ : pl. ضَمَايءِرُ . (As, TA.)

ضَامِرٌ Lean, and lank in the belly; [&c.; see 1;] (A, K;) applied to a he-camel, (K,) and to a horse, as also ↓ ضَمْرٌ , and ↓ مُضَمَّرٌ , and ↓ مُضْطَمِرٌ ; (A;) and to a she-camel, (S, A, K,) as also ضَامِرَةٌ ; (S;) [and to a man;] ضَامِرٌ applied to a she-camel being regarded as a possessive epithet [signifying ذَاتُ ضُمْرٍ ]: (TA:) and ↓ ضَمْرٌ signifies also lank in the belly, and small and slender in person; applied to a man: (S, A, K:) fem. with ة : (A, K:) the pl. of ضَامِرٌ is ضُمَّرٌ . (Ham p. 473.) ― -b2- And A horse in a state of preparation for racing, by his having been fed with food barely sufficient to sustain him, after having become fat: and you say خَيْلٌ ضَامِرَةٌ and ضَوَامِرُ , meaning horses in that state. (Msb.) ― -b3- Applied to grain, it means Thin, or slender: (Mgh:) and to a branch or twig, sapless; dried up; as also ↓ مُنْضَمِرٌ . (K.)

ضَوْمَرَانٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and ضَوْمُرَانٌ (Msb) and ↓ ضَمْيُرَانٌ (O, Msb, K) and ضَيْمَرَانٌ (Msb) A species of the رَيَاحِين [or sweet-smelling plants]: (S, O:) or of the wild رَيْحَان : (K:) or the رَيْحَان فَارِسِىّ : (Msb, K:) Aboo-Nasr says that the ضيمران is the شَاهَسْفَرَم [or شَاهِسْفَرَم , i. e. basil-royal, or common sweet basil, ocimum basilicum]: AHn says, on the authority of an Arab of the desert, of El-Yemen, that the ضيمران is exactly like the حَوْك [which is one of the names now applied to sweet basil], of sweet odour, and is therefore asserted by some to be the شاهسفرم , but the ضيمران is wild; and he says that some call it ضَوْمَرَان . (O.)

ضَيْمُرَانٌ and ضَيْمَرَانٌ : see the next preceding paragraph.

مُضْمَرٌ Concealed, (K,) [or conceived,] in the mind. (S.) You say, هَوًى مُضْمَرٌ , meaning Concealed love; as also ↓ ضَمْرٌ ; as though the latter were believed to be an inf. n. [used in the sense of a pass. part. n.] from the unaugmented, for the augmented, verb. (TA.) See also ضَمِيرٌ . ― -b2- Also The place of concealment, (K,) [or of conception,] in the mind. (S.) A poet, (S,) ElAhwas Ibn-Mohammad El-Ansáree, (TA,) says, سَتَبْقَى لَهَا فِى مُضْمَرِ القَلْبِ وَالحَشَا سَرِيرَةُ وُدٍّ يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرَايءِرُ [There will remain to her, in the hiding-place of the heart and the bowels, a secret love, (lit. a secret of love,) on the day when secrets shall be revealed]. (S, TA.)

مُضَمَّرٌ : see ضَامِرٌ .

مُضَمِّرٌ One who prepares his horses, by reducing them to scanty food, ( يُضَمِّرُهَا ,) for a military expedition or for racing. (TA.)

مِضْمَارٌ A training-place in which horses are prepared for racing [or for military service] by being fed with food barely sufficient to sustain them, after they have become fat: (S, * Msb, K: *) [a hippodrome; a place where horses are exercised:] pl. مَضَامِيرُ . (A.) You say, جَرَى فِى المِضْمَارِ [He ran in the hippodrome, or place of exercise]. (A.) And الغِنَا=ءُ مِضْمَارُ الشِّعْرِ (tropical:) [app. meaning Singing is that in which the excellences of poetry are displayed, like as the excellences of a horse are displayed in the hippodrome]. (A.) ― -b2- Also The time, of forty days, during which a horse is reduced to food barely sufficient to sustain him, after his having been fed with fodder so that he has become fat; (S, TA;) the time during which a horse is thus prepared for racing or for an expedition against the enemy: pl. as above. (TA.) It is said in a trad., اَلْيَوْمَ مِضْمَارٌ وَغَدًا ا@لْسِّبَاقُ وَالسَّابِقُ مَنْ سَبَقَ ا@لْجَنَّةَ [To-day is a time for training, and to-morrow is the race, and the winner is he who wins Paradise:] i. e., to-day one is to work, in the present world, for the desire of Paradise; like as a horse is trained for racing. (Sh.) [One of the explanations of المضمار in the K is غَايَةُ الفَرَسِ فِى السِّبَاقِ , or, as in the TA, لِلسِّبَاقِ ; app. meaning The goal, or limit, of the horse in racing: but in the TA, these words are made to form part of an explanation which I have given before, i. e., the time during which a horse is prepared for racing, &c.] -A2- See also 2.

لُوءْلُوءٌ مُضْطَمِرٌ Contracted pearls: (K:) or pearls having somewhat of contraction in the middle. (S.) ― -b2- See also ضَامِرٌ .

مُنْضَمِرٌ : see ضَامِرٌ , last sentence.

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