ذِمَارٌ
Root: ذمر
Full Definition
ذِمَارٌ
Whatever one is obliged, or bound, to preserve and guard and defend or protect, and for the loss or neglect of which one must be blamed: things that are sacred, or inviolable; a man's family, and property (حَوْزَة), and servants or dependents, and relations: as also
ذَمَارٌ : things for which, if he did not defend or protect them, a man would be blamed, and severely reproved: or what is behind a man, [as a burden upon him,] of those things which it is his duty to defend or protect; for they say حَامِىالذِّمَارِ, [see below,] like as they say حَامِى الحَقِيقَةِ; and those things are termed ذمار because anger (تَذَمُّرٌ) on their account is incumbent on him to whom they pertain; and they are termed حقيقة because it is the duty of him to whom they pertain to defend them. حَامِىالذِّمَارِ signifies The defender, or protector, of those things for which a man is to be blamed, and severely reproved, if he do not defend or protect them: [or of those things which he is bound to preserve and guard and defend, &c.: see above:] or one who, when he is incited, or instigated, and angry, defends, or protects. One says also, فُلَانٌ أَمْنَعُ ذِمَارًا مِنْ فُلَانٍ [app., Such a one is a greater defender of those things which it is his duty to defend than such a one].
2 يَوْمُ الذِّمَارِ The day of war: or of perdition: or of anger.
2 يَوْمُ الذِّمَارِ The day of war: or of perdition: or of anger.
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