Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

سَمَارٌ

Root: سمر

Full Definition

سَمَارٌ Thin milk: milk containing much water: or [diluted] milk of which water composes two thirds: n. un. with ة, signifying some thereof.
2 [See also a tropical usage of this word in a prov. cited voce رَبَضٌ.]

def.2 [In the present day it is also applied to A species of rush, growing in the deserts of Lower and Upper Egypt, of which mats are made for covering the floors of rooms; the juncus spinosus of Forskål, who writes its Arabic name “ sammar; ” the juncus acutus β of Linn.]


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