حَمَرَ
Root: حمر
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 And [hence,] He pared, or peeled, anything; divested or stripped it of its superficial part, peel, bark, coat, covering, crust, or the like: and , Verbal.Noun تَحْمِيرٌ, signifies the same in an intensive degree, or as applying to many objects; syn. قشّر.
3 Also, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He skinned a sheep [and thus made it to appear red].
4 He shaved the head [and thus made it to appear red, or of a reddish-brown colour, the common hue of the Arab skin]. And حَمَرَتِ المَرْأَةُ جِلْدَهَا [The woman removed the hair of her skin]. The term حَمْرٌ is [also] used in relation to soft hair, or fur, (وَبَر,) and wool.
5 حَمَرَهُ بِالسَوْطِ He excoriated him (قَشَرَهُ) with the whip.
6 حَمَرَ الأَرْض, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, It removed the superficial part of of the ground.
7 حَمَرَهُ بِاللِّسَانِ
def.2 حَمِرَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun حَمَرٌ, He suffered indigestion from eating barley: or the odour of his mouth became altered, or stinking, by reason thereof: or he became diseased from eating much barley, or he suffered indigestion from eating barley, so that his mouth stank: and in like manner one says of a domestic animal [of any kind]: part. n. .
def.3 حَمِرَ عَلَىَّ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, He burned with anger and rage against me.
def.4 حَمِرَتِ الدَّابَّةُ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, [The horse] became like on ass in stupidity, dulness, or want of vigour, by reason of fatness.
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