Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مَأْمُورٌ

Root: امر

Full Definition

مَأْمُورٌ [pass. part. n. of أَمَرَهُ, q. v.].
2 It is said in a trad., خَيْرُ المَالِ مُهْرَةٌ مَأْمُورَةٌ وَسِكَّةٌ مَأْبُورَةٌ The best of property are a prolific filly [and a row of palm-trees, or perhaps a tall palmtree, fecundated]; as though the filly were commanded [by God] to be so: (A, in which the epithet مأمورة thus used is said to be tropical:) [or] مأمورة is thus for the sake of conformity to مأبورة, and is originally مُؤْمَرَةٌ, from آمَرَهَا اللّٰهُ: or it is a dial. var. of weak authority; though, accord. to AZ, it signifies made to have abundant offspring, from أَمَرَ اللّٰهُ المُهْرَةَ, meaning “God made the filly to have abundant offspring,” a dial. var. of آمَرَهَا, as A 'Obeyd also asserts it to be.


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