Arabic edit

Root
ض م ر (ḍ-m-r)

Verb edit

ضَمُرَ or ضَمَرَ (ḍamara or ḍamura) I, non-past يَضْمُرُ‎ (yaḍmuru)

  1. to be slender, to be lean

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

ضَمَّرَ (ḍammara) II, non-past يُضَمِّرُ‎ (yuḍammiru)

  1. to make slender, to make lean

Conjugation edit

Adjective edit

ضَمْر (ḍamr) (feminine ضَمْرة (ḍamra))

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

Declension edit

Noun edit

ضُمْر or ضُمُر (ḍumr or ḍumurm

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

Declension edit

References edit

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “ضمر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 27
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ضمر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], 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[3] (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie