جُمَّاحٌ
Root: جمح
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جُمَّاحٌ
An arrow, or a small arrow, without an iron point, having a round head, with which the art of shooting is learned by a boy: or one with which boys play, putting upon its head a date or some clay, in order that it may not wound: or it signifies also a date put upon the head of a piece of wood, with which boys play: birds are shot at with it, and knocked down, without being killed, so that the shooter takes them: and it is also called جُبَّاحٌ: or a boy's arrow, upon the end of which he puts a lump of chewed dates of the size of the
عِفَاض [here meaning stopper] of a bottle, in order that it may go more directly, and be smooth; without feathers, and sometimes without a notch.
def.2 Also That [kind of plant] at the extremities of which come forth what resemble ears of wheat, soft, like foxes' tails, or resembling the heads of the حَلِىّ and the صِلِّيَان and the like: a coll. gen. n.: n. un. with ة: pl. جَمَامِيحُ; and in poetry جَمَامِحُ; the latter allowable only in cases of necessity.
def.3 See also جَمُوحٌ.
def.2 Also That [kind of plant] at the extremities of which come forth what resemble ears of wheat, soft, like foxes' tails, or resembling the heads of the حَلِىّ and the صِلِّيَان and the like: a coll. gen. n.: n. un. with ة: pl. جَمَامِيحُ; and in poetry جَمَامِحُ; the latter allowable only in cases of necessity.
def.3 See also جَمُوحٌ.
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