Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عَمْرَةٌ

Root: عمر

Full Definition

عَمْرَةٌ : see عَمَارَةٌ.

def.2 أَبُو عَمْرَةَ means Bankruptcy, insolvency, or the state of having no property remaining; which is said to be thus called because it was the name of an envoy of El-Mukhtár the son of Aboo-'Obeyd, on the occasion of whose alighting at the abode of a people, slaughter and war used to befall them:
2 and hunger.


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