سمر

سَامِرٌ ذ A man holding, or who holds, a conversation, or discourse, by night: (S:) pl. سُمَّارٌ (S, M, K) and سُمَّرٌ. (TA.) It is also a quasi-pl. n., (M, K,) [as such occurring in a verse cited voce مُرِمٌّ, in art. رم,] and is syn. [as such] with سُمَّارٌ, signifying persons holding, or who hold, conversation, or discourse, by night: (S, M:) or persons waking, continuing awake, not sleeping; as also ↓ سَامِرَةٌ [a fem. sing., and therefore applicable as an epithet to a broken pl. and to a quasi-pl. n. and to a coll. gen. n.]: (M, K:) سَامِرٌ is a pl. [or rather quasi-pl. n.] applicable to males and to females: (T, TA:) or it is a sing., and, like other sings., is used as a qualificative of a pl. only when the latter is determinate; as in the phrase تَرَكْتُهُمْ سَامِرًا [ I left them holding a conversation & c.]. (Lh, M.) ― -b2- Also A camel pasturing by night. (TA.) ― -b3- See also سَمَرٌ.