Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مَعْمُورٌ

Root: عمر

Full Definition

مَعْمُورٌ : see عَامِرٌ, in two places.
2 دَارٌ مَعْمُورَةٌ A house inhabited by jinn, or genii.
3 البَيْتُ المَعْمُورُ is [The edifice] in heaven, in the third heaven, or the sixth, or the seventh, or in the fourth, over, or corresponding to, the Kaabeh, which seventy thousand angels visit every day, [or seventy thousand companies of which every one consists of seventy thousand angels, (see دِحْيَةٌ,)] circuiting around it and praying, never returning to it: or the Kaabeh: or the heart of the believer.

def.2 Also Served [or worshipped].


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