تنمّر

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تنمّرV [He made himself like a leopard or panther, in diversity of colours: see also 1]. 'Amr Ibn-Maadee-Kerib says, قَوْمٌ إِذَا لَبِسُوا الحَدِي دَ تَنَمَّرُوا حَلَقًا وَقِدَّا [A people who, when they put on armour of iron mail,] make themselves like the leopard or panther (نَمِر) in the diversity of colours of the iron [rings] and the thongs.
2 He made himself like the leopard or panther (نَمِر, K, TA) in ill-nature: he became angry; as also نَمِرَ , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun نَمَرٌ ; and نمّر : he became evil in disposition; as also نَمِرَ : he became angry and evil in disposition; as also نَمِرَ and نمّر ; like the نَمِر: he strained the voice in threatening: and تنمّر لَهُ he became ill-natured and altered to him, and threatened him; because the نَمِر is never met otherwise than angry and illnatured.

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