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Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to concepts of filling, abundance, and potentially repair or reinforcement. It is primarily used in classical Arabic to describe the filling of a landscape by rain and the act of drinking deeply. There's also a less common usage related to mending a bow.

Derived headwords

الغمجارnoun

1.
fillingclassical
The act or state of being filled, particularly by rain.

غمراءnoun

1.
mending pasteclassical
A paste or glue made from egg white, used to mend or reinforce a weakened bow.

غمجرهاverb

1.
to mend a bowclassical
To apply a mending paste or reinforcement to a weakened bow.

الغمجرةnoun

1.
mending a bowclassical
The act of mending or reinforcing a weakened bow.

قمجارnoun

1.
mending pasteclassical
A paste or glue made from egg white, used to mend or reinforce a weakened bow. This is a variant with 'qaf' instead of 'ghayn'.

غمجرةnoun

1.
fillingclassical
The act of filling, especially a landscape by rain.
2.
deep drinkingclassical
The act of drinking water in rapid, successive gulps.

غمجرverb

1.
to fillclassical
To fill, especially a landscape with rain.
2.
to drink deeplyclassical
To drink water in rapid, successive gulps.

Parallel reading

وقال الليث: غراء يجعل على القوس من وهى بها، وقد غمجرها، وهي الغمجرة.

And Al-Layth said: It is a paste made for a bow when it weakens, and he mended it, and it is the Ghamjarah.

ورواه ثعلب عن ابن الأعرابي: قمجار، بالقاف.

And Tha'lab narrated it from Ibn Al-A'rabi: Qamjar, with a Qaf.

وغمجر المطر الروضة غمجرة: ملأها.

And the rain filled the meadow with a Ghamjarah: it filled it.

وغمجر. الماء: تابع جرعه، هكذا في النسخ.

And he drank the water: he followed his gulps, thus in the manuscripts.

وفي التكملة: جريه ولكن في تهذيب ابن القطاع: الغمجرة: تتابع الجرع، يصحح ما للمصنف.

And in Al-Takmilah: its flowing, but in Tahdhib Ibn Al-Qatta': Al-Ghamjarah: the succession of gulps, correcting what the author has.