ذمر

مُذَمِّرٌ ذ A man who inserts his hand into the vulva of a she-camel, to discover if her fœtus be a male or a female: (S, M, K:) because he feels its مُذَمَّر, and thus knows it: he feels its jaw-bones: if they be thick, it is a male; and if thin, a female. (M.) El-Kumeyt says, وَقَالَ المُذَمِّرُ لِلنَّاتِجِينَ مَتَى ذُمِّرَتْ قَبْلِىَ الأَرْجُلُ [ And he whose business it was to feel the fœtus, for the purpose of discovering if it were male or female, said to those assisting the she-camels in bringing forth, When, before my time, were the legs felt to discover the sex of the fœtus? ]: (S, M:) for it is the head that is felt, as above explained. (M.) The مُذَمِّر is, to camels, as the midwife to human beings. (A.)