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اعتمر

Root: عمر

Form: 8

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اعتمرVIII He visited. (Msb, K: in some copies of the K اعتمرهُ.) You say, اعتمرهُ, and , He visited him, or it; he repaired, or betook himself, to him, or it; as also , accord. to one explanation of a passage in the Kur ix. 18, quoted above: [see 1:] but Z says, I know not عَمَرَ as occurring in the sense of اعتمر.
2 He performed the religious visit called عُمْرَة. You say اعتمر فِى الحَجِّ [He performed the visit so called in the pilgrimage].
3 اعتمر أَمْرًا He betook himself to a thing, or an affair; as, for instance, a warring and plundering expedition; aimed at it; purposed it.

def.2 Also He attired his head with an عَمَارَة, i. e., a turban, &c.
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