Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

شَمُّورٌ

Root: شمر

Full Definition

شَمُّورٌ , occurring in a trad. respecting 'Ooj Ibn- 'Unuk, [or Ibn-'Ook,] as meaning something with which a mass of rock was hollowed out according to the size of his head, Diamond: thought by El-Khattábee to have this meaning; but he says, “ I have not heard respecting it anything upon which I place reliance. ”


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