جِرْمَةٌ
Root: جرم
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جِرْمَةٌ
People cutting off the fruit of palmtrees. [In this sense it is app. a pl. of pauc., or a quasi-pl. n., of جَارِمٌ, q. v.]
2 Also Ripening dates cut off from the trees: and this sense, not the former as is implied in the S, is meant by Imra-el-Keys, where he says,
2 Also Ripening dates cut off from the trees: and this sense, not the former as is implied in the S, is meant by Imra-el-Keys, where he says,
[They mounted, at Antioch, upon a variegated cloth, like the ripening dates cut off from palmtrees, or like the garden of Yethrib]: he likens the variegated cloth and wool upon the هَوْدَج to red and yellow ripening dates, or to the garden of Yethrib because it abounded with palm-trees.عَلَوْنَ بِأَنْطَاكِيَّةٍ فَوْقَ عِقْمَةٍ كَجِرْمَةٍ نَخْلٍ أَوْ كَجَنَّةِ يَثْرِبَ
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