أَنْمَرُ
Root: نمر
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أَنْمَرُ
Spotted white and black: or in which is black and white; applied to a wild beast; as also
نَمِرٌ : fem. نَمْرَآءُ; applied to a ewe or she-goat: pl. نُمْرٌ: also أَنْمَرُ a horse, and an ostrich, variegated like the
نَمِر, having one spot white and another of any colour: pl. as above: or, applied to an ostrich, in which is blackness and whiteness: pl. as above: and a lion in which is dust-colour and blackness: and
مُنَمَّرٌ a bird having black spots; also sometimes applied as an epithet to a horse such as is termed بِرْذَوْن. Also, A collection of clouds of the colour of the
نَمِر, spots being seen in their interstices: or having black and white spots: and
نَمِرٌ signifies a collection of clouds having marks like those of the
نَمِر: or small portions near together: n. un. with ة: or
نَمِرَةٌ signifies a small portion of a cloud: and its pl. [or rather the coll. gen. n.] is نَمِرٌ. It is said in a proverb, أَرِنِيهَا نَمِرَةً
أُرِكَهَا مَطِرَةً [Show thou it to me spotted like the leopard, I will show it to thee raining]: alluding to an event which one certainly knows will happen when the symptoms thereof appear: originally said by Aboo-Dhueyb El-Hudhalee: نَمِرَة is here like خَضِرًا in the Kur, vi. 99, for أَخْضَرَ: by rule, it should be نَمْرَآءَ, fem. of أَنْمَرُ.
2 See also نَمِرٌ.
2 See also نَمِرٌ.
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