Arabic

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Root
ض م ر (ḍ m r)
8 terms

Etymology 1.1

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Verb

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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
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Etymology 1.2

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Verb

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

  1. to make slender, to make lean
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Etymology 1.3

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Adjective

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ضَمْر (ḍamr) (feminine ضَمْرة (ḍamra))

  1. (of people) thin, having no paunch
  2. (of horses) having fine bones surrounding the eyes
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Etymology 1.4

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Noun

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ضُمْر or ضُمُر (ḍumr or ḍumurm

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

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  • 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