ضمر

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Arabic

Root
ض م ر (ḍ m r)
6 terms

Etymology 1.1

Verb

ضَمَرَ or ضَمُرَ (ḍamara or ḍamura) I (non-past يَضْمُرُ (yaḍmuru), verbal noun ضُمْر (ḍumr) or ضُمُور (ḍumūr))

  1. to be slender, to be lean
Conjugation

Etymology 1.2

Verb

ضَمَّرَ (ḍammara) II (non-past يُضَمِّرُ (yuḍammiru), verbal noun تَضْمِير (taḍmīr))

  1. to make slender, to make lean
Conjugation

Etymology 1.3

Adjective

ضَمْر (ḍamr) (feminine ضَمْرة (ḍamra))

  1. (of people) thin, having no paunch
  2. (of horses) having fine bones surrounding the eyes
Declension

Etymology 1.4

Noun

ضُمْر or ضُمُر (ḍumr or ḍumurm

  1. lack of a paunch, of plumpness
  2. condition of being a person who is thin
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “ضمر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 27
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ضمر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1803
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ضمر”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie