جُمَّارٌ
Root: جمر
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جُمَّارٌ
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جَامُورٌ [each a coll. gen. n.] The heart, or pith, [or cerebrum,] of the palm-tree, that is in the summit of its head, which part is cut off, and its outer portion is stripped off from the pith within it, which is a white substance, like a piece of the hump of a camel, large and soft: it is eaten with honey: from it come forth the fruit and the branches; and when it is cut off, the tree dies: the spathe comes forth from it, amid the part whence two branches divide: the head of the palmtree; a soft, white substance: from جَمَّرَ “ he collected together; ” for a similar reason termed كَثَرٌ: n. un. جُمَّارَةٌ. [See also قَلْبٌ.] You say, لَهُ سَاقٌ كَالجُمَّارَةِ
He has a shank like a piece of the heart of the palm-tree. And الجُمَّارُ فِى خَلَاخِلِهِنَّ
إِذَا عُطِفَتْ خَلَاخُلُهُنَّ غَصَّبْ بِجُمَّارَاتِ بَرْدِىٍّ خِدَالِ
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