صمر

Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

The root صمر (ṣmr) primarily relates to gathering, withholding, and being stingy. It also extends to meanings of dryness, leanness, and unpleasant odors, particularly associated with the sea. Additionally, it encompasses concepts of stillness, resting places, and even specific plants and geographical features.

Derived headwords

صَمَرَverb

1.
to gather and withholdclassical
To collect one's belongings and keep them, implying stinginess or preventing others from accessing them.
2.
to be stingyclassical
To be miserly and refuse to spend or give.
3.
to enter the time of sunsetclassical
To reach the period of sunset, when the sun disappears from view.
4.
to flow and become stillclassical
Describing water that flows downhill and then settles in a level area.

صمر متاعه — he gathered his belongings

صمر يصمر صمرا وصمورا بخل ومنع — ṣamara, yaṣmuru, ṣamran and ṣumūran: to be stingy and withhold

التَصْمِيرnoun

1.
gathering and withholdingclassical
The act of collecting and keeping things, often with a connotation of stinginess.
2.
entering sunsetclassical
The act of entering the time of sunset.

التصمير: الجمع والمنع — al-taṣmīr: gathering and withholding

التصمير أيضا: أن يدخل في الصمير — al-taṣmīr also: to enter into the time of sunset

أَصْمَرَverb

1.
to gather and withholdclassical
To collect one's belongings and keep them, similar to صمر.
2.
to enter the time of sunsetclassical
To reach the period of sunset.

صمر متاعه وصمره وأصمره — he gathered his belongings, and ṣamara and aṣmara

أصمرنا وصمرنا وأقصرنا وقصرنا وأعرجنا وعرجنا بمعنى واحد — aṣmarnā, ṣamarnā, aqṣarnā, qaṣarnā, aʿrajnā, and ʿarajnā all mean the same thing

صَامِرadjective

1.
stingy personclassical
A person who is stingy and withholds their possessions.
2.
lean and dryclassical
Describing a person whose flesh is dry and leathery on the bones.

فإني رأيت الصامرين متاعهم ... يموت ويفنى — for I have seen the stingy ones, their possessions... die and perish

ورجل صمير: يابس اللحم على العظام — and a man ṣamīr: dry of flesh upon the bones

صَمِيرadjective

1.
lean and dryclassical
Describing a person whose flesh is dry and leathery on the bones, with a strong smell of sweat.

ورجل صمير يابس اللحم على العظم تفوح منه رائحة العرق — and a man ṣamīr, dry of flesh upon the bone, from whom the smell of sweat emanates

الصَّمَرnoun

1.
stenchclassical
A foul or unpleasant odor, particularly associated with the sea or decaying matter.
2.
sea stenchclassical
The foul smell and murkiness of the sea when its waves are rough.
3.
fresh muskclassical
The scent of fresh musk.
4.
sea foam/surgeclassical
The foam or surging waves of the sea when it is agitated.
5.
stillness of waterclassical
The state of water that has flowed and then become still.

والصمر، بالتحريك: النتن — and al-ṣamar, with vowelization: stench

لتدهن به بني أخيه من صمر البحر — to anoint with it the children of her brother from the stench of the sea

أما صمر البحر فهو نتن ريحه وغمقه وومده — as for the stench of the sea, it is its foul smell, its murkiness, and its surge

ابن الأعرابي: الصمر رائحة المسك الطري — Ibn al-Aʿrābī: al-ṣamar is the scent of fresh musk

والصمر: غتم البحر إذا خب أي هاج موجه — and al-ṣamar: the sea's foam when it is agitated, meaning its waves are rough

صَمَرَةnoun

1.
stenchclassical
A foul or unpleasant odor.

يدي من اللحم صمرة — my hand has a stench from the meat

صَمُورnoun

1.
stinginessclassical
The act or state of being stingy.
2.
stillness of waterclassical
The place where water flows and then becomes still.

صمر يصمر صمرا وصمورا بخل ومنع — ṣamara, yaṣmuru, ṣamran and ṣumūran: to be stingy and withhold

صمر الماء يصمر صمورا: جرى من حدور في مستوى فسكن — water ṣamara, yaṣmuru, ṣumūran: it flowed downhill on a level surface and then settled

صَمَرُ الوَادِيnoun

1.
still water placeclassical
A place in a valley where water flows and then becomes still.

وذلك المكان يسمى صمر الوادي — and that place is called ṣamar al-wādī

صَمَارَىnoun

1.
anusclassical
The anus, with a connotation of foulness or stench.

الصمارى، مقصورا: الاست لنتنها — al-ṣamārā, shortened: the anus due to its stench

الصمارى، بالضم، الدبر — al-ṣamārī, with damma, the anus

الصِّمَارnoun

1.
anusclassical
The anus.

الصمارى، بكسر الصاد — al-ṣamārī, with kasra on the ṣād

أَصْمَارnoun

1.
upper parts of a cupclassical
The upper parts or rim of a cup, filled to the brim.

وملأ الكأس إلى أصمارها أي إلى أعاليها كأصبارها — and he filled the cup to its aṣmār, meaning to its upper parts like its aṣbār

صَيْمَرِيّadjective

1.
from Saymarclassical
Relating to Saymar, a place known for a type of cheese.

إليه نسب الجبن الصيمري — to it is attributed the Saymari cheese

الصَّوْمَرnoun

1.
a type of plantclassical
A plant known as 'bādrūj', or a shrub that grows entwined with the ghāf tree, having leaves like the arāk and edible, sweet fruit resembling acorns.

والصومر: الباذروج — and al-ṣūmar: the bādrūj

وهو قضبان لها ورق كورق الأراك، وله ثمر يشبه البلوط يؤكل، وهو لين شديد الحلاوة — it has branches with leaves like the arāk, and it has fruit resembling acorns which is eaten, and it is soft and intensely sweet

Parallel reading

التصمير: الجمع والمنع.

Al-taṣmīr: gathering and withholding.

يقال: صمر متاعه وصمره وأصمره.

It is said: he gathered his belongings, and ṣamara and aṣmara.

والتصمير أيضا: أن يدخل في الصمير، وهو مغيب الشمس.

And al-taṣmīr also: to enter into the time of sunset, which is the disappearance of the sun.

ويقال: أصمرنا وصمرنا وأقصرنا وقصرنا وأعرجنا وعرجنا بمعنى واحد.

And it is said: aṣmarnā, ṣamarnā, aqṣarnā, qaṣarnā, aʿrajnā, and ʿarajnā all mean the same thing.

ابن سيده: صمر يصمر صمرا وصمورا بخل ومنع؛

Ibn Sīdah said: ṣamara, yaṣmuru, ṣamran and ṣumūran: to be stingy and withhold;

قال: فإني رأيت الصامرين متاعهم ... يموت ويفنى، فارضخي من وعائيا

He said: for I have seen the stingy ones, their possessions... die and perish, so give generously from my container.

ورجل صمير: يابس اللحم على العظام.

And a man ṣamīr: dry of flesh upon the bones.

والصمر، بالتحريك: النتن

And al-ṣamar, with vowelization: stench

يقال: يدي من اللحم صمرة.

It is said: my hand has a stench from the meat.

أما صمر البحر فهو نتن ريحه وغمقه وومده.

As for the stench of the sea, it is its foul smell, its murkiness, and its surge.

ابن الأعرابي: الصمر رائحة المسك الطري.

Ibn al-Aʿrābī: al-ṣamar is the scent of fresh musk.

والصمر: غتم البحر إذا خب أي هاج موجه.

And al-ṣamar: the sea's foam when it is agitated, meaning its waves are rough.

رجل صمير يابس اللحم على العظم تفوح منه رائحة العرق.

A man ṣamīr, dry of flesh upon the bone, from whom the smell of sweat emanates.

وصمر الماء يصمر صمورا: جرى من حدور في مستوى فسكن، وهو جار وذلك المكان يسمى صمر الوادي، وصمره: مستقره.

And water ṣamara, yaṣmuru, ṣumūran: it flowed downhill on a level surface and then settled, while it is flowing, and that place is called ṣamar al-wādī, and its resting place is ṣamara.

والصمارى، مقصورا: الاست لنتنها.

And al-ṣamārā, shortened: the anus due to its stench.

والصمر: الصبر؛ أخذ الشيء بأصماره أي بأصباره، وقيل: هو على البدل.

And al-ṣamar: patience; taking something by its aṣmār, meaning by its aṣbār, and it is said: it is by substitution.

وملأ الكأس إلى أصمارها أي إلى أعاليها كأصبارها، واحدها صمر وصبر.

And he filled the cup to its aṣmār, meaning to its upper parts like its aṣbār, its singular is ṣamar and ṣabr.

والصومر: الباذروج،

And al-ṣūmar: the bādrūj,

وهو قضبان لها ورق كورق الأراك، وله ثمر يشبه البلوط يؤكل، وهو لين شديد الحلاوة.

It has branches with leaves like the arāk, and it has fruit resembling acorns which is eaten, and it is soft and intensely sweet.