أَمَارٌ
Root: امر
Full Definition
أَمَارٌ
and
أَمَارَةٌ
A sign, mark, or token. See also each voce أَمَرَةٌ, in three places. You say, هِى أَمَارَةُ مَا بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَكَ
It is a sign, or token, of what is between me and thee. And a poet says,
2 Also A time: so IAar explains the latter word, not particularizing the time as definite or otherwise: or a definite time: or a time, or place, of promise or appointment; an appointed time or place; syn. مَوْعِدٌ: or, accord. to some, the former word is pl. [or rather col. gen. n.] of the latter. El- 'Ajjáj says,
[When the sun of day rises, it is a sign of my saluting thee, therefore do thou salute].إِذَا طَلَعَتْ شَمْسُ النَّهَارِ فَإِنَّهَا أَمَارَةُ تَسْلِيمِى عَلَيْكِ فَسَلِّمِى
2 Also A time: so IAar explains the latter word, not particularizing the time as definite or otherwise: or a definite time: or a time, or place, of promise or appointment; an appointed time or place; syn. مَوْعِدٌ: or, accord. to some, the former word is pl. [or rather col. gen. n.] of the latter. El- 'Ajjáj says,
When He brings it, by his skilful ordering, and his power, [and it is thus brought, or it thus comes, to a set time, and] to the time of the end of my appointed period: امارمدّتى being as above; the former word being prefixed to the latter, governing it in the gen. case. (IB. [In the S we find وَأَمَارٌ مُدَّتِى.])إِذْ رَدَّهَا بِكَيْدِهِ فَارْتَدَّتِ إِلَي أَمَارٍ وَأَمَارِ مُدَّتِى
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