قمح

القُمَّحَانُ ذ , thus accord. to the Basrees, (TA,) and القُمَّحَانُ, and ↓ القُمْحَةُ, (K,) The [ plant called ] وَرْس [q. v.]: (S, K, TA:) or [ the kind of perfume called ] الذَّرِيرَةُ: (TA:) or (so accord. to the K and TA, but in the S “ also, ”) a substance that comes upon the surface of wine, like الذَّرِيرَة: (S, K, TA:) it is the froth, or scum, thereof: (L, TA:) or, as some say, (TA, but in the K “ and, ”) saffron: (K, TA:) or a certain perfume: or a white substance that overspreads wine resembling الذَّرِيرَة: this last is said to be what is meant in the following verse by En-Nábighah [Edh-Dhubyánee], the only poet known by AHn to have mentioned القمّحان: اـِذَا فُضَّتْ خَوَاتِمُهُ عَلَاهُ يَبِيسُ القُمَّحَانِ مِنَ المُدَامِ [ When its seals are broken, what is exsiccated of the white substance resembling particles of calamus aromaticus of the wine comes, or appears, upon its surface ]. (L, TA.)