Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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قطف قطمر قطن


قِطْمِيرٌ

قِطْمِيرٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) and قِطْمَارٌ (Ḳ) The cleft (شَقّ) of a date-stone: (M, Ḳ:) or the integument (قِشْرَة) that is upon it (فِيهَا): (Ḳ:) the thin skin (Ṣ, Ḳ) called فُوفَة, which is upon a date-stone, (Ṣ,) between the stone and the date itself: (Ḳ:) or the white point [i. e. the embryo] in the back of the date-stone, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) from which [when it is sown] the palm-tree grows forth. (Ṣ.)

Root: قطمر - Entry: قِطْمِيرٌ Signification: A2

[Hence,]A small, mean, paltry, contemptible, thing. So the former signifies in the Ḳur, xxxv. 14. One says also مَا أَصَبْتُ مِنْهُ قِطْمِيرًا, meaning, † I obtained not of him, or it, anything. (TA.)


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