سَمُرٌ

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سَمُرٌ A certain kind of tree, well known; i. q. طَلْحٌ [the gum-acacia-tree; acacia, or mimosa, gummifera]; or [a species] of the طَلْح, of the kind called عِضَاه, having small leaves, short thorns, and a yellow fruit (بَرَمَة) which men eat: there is no kind of عضاه better in wood: it is transported to the towns and villages, and houses are covered with it: its produce is [a pod] termed حُبْلَةٌ [q. v.]: (TA in art. حبل:) [the mimosa unguis cati of Forskål ] n. un. سَمُرَةٌ: [in the S, سَمُرٌ is said to be pl. of سَمُرَةٌ: but it is a coll. gen. n.:] the pl. of سَمُرَةٌ is سَمُرَاتٌ, and أَسْمُرٌ, a pl. of pauc., of which the dim. is أُسَيْمِرٌ . It is said in a prov., شَرْجًا لَوْ أَنَّ أَشْبَهَ شَرْجٌ [Sharj would resemble Sharj if a few gum-acacia-trees were found there: Sharj is a certain valley of El-Yemen: for the origin of this prov., see Freytag's Arab. Prov., i. 662]. يَا أَصْحَابَ السَّمُرَةِ [O people of the gumacacia-tree], in a saying of the Prophet, was addressed to the persons meant in the Kur xlviii. 18.

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