زَمَّارٌ

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زَمَّارٌ and زَامِرٌ , but the latter is rare, or scarcely ever used, or it is not allowable, applied to a man; and , but not زَمَّارَةٌ, applied to a woman; A [piper, or] player upon a reed; one who blows in a مِزْمَار.
2 Also زَمَّارَةٌ, A fornicatress, or an adulteress: so in a trad., in which it is said نَهَى عَنْ كَسْبِ الزَّمَّارَةِ He prohibited the gain of the fornicatress: so called because she publishes her business: some say that the correct word is here رَمَّازَة, because such a woman makes signs with her lips and her eyes and her eyebrows: Az says that he holds the former to be the right; and Abu-l- 'Abbás Ahmad says that the latter is wrong, and that the former signifies a beautiful prostitute: but Az adds that the trad. may mean as above, or he prohibited the gain of the female singer, as AHát relates on the authority of As.

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