جُمَّاعٌ
Root: جمع
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جُمَّاعٌ
Anything of which the several component parts are collected, brought, gathered, or drawn, together.
2 [Hence,] as an epithet, applied to a woman, it means Short.
3 [Hence also,] جُمَّاعٌ الثُّرَيَّا The cluster of the Pleiades: or persons who collect together for the rain of the Pleiades, which is the rain called الوَسْمِىّ, looking for the fruitfulness and herbage resulting from it.
4 And جُمَّاعُ النَّاسِ A medley, or mixed or promiscuous multitude or collection, of men, or people, of various tribes; as also جُمَّاعٌ alone: or the latter, people scattered, or in a state of dispersion.
5 جُمَّاعٌ also signifies The place [either properly or tropically] which comprises the origin of anything; the source of descent or extraction of people; and hence applied by I 'Ab to main tribes from which other tribes are derived; or, as some say, used by him as meaning various classes of men, such as are termed أَوْزَاع and أَوْشَاب.
6 [And The main, or most essential, part of a thing. Thus,] جُمَّاعُ جَسَدِ الإِنْسَانِ means The head of the man.
7 جُمَّاعُ التَّمْرِ The contraction (تَجَمُّع) of the envelopes of the flowers of dates, in one place, upon [the germs of] the fruit, or produce, thereof.
2 [Hence,] as an epithet, applied to a woman, it means Short.
3 [Hence also,] جُمَّاعٌ الثُّرَيَّا The cluster of the Pleiades: or persons who collect together for the rain of the Pleiades, which is the rain called الوَسْمِىّ, looking for the fruitfulness and herbage resulting from it.
4 And جُمَّاعُ النَّاسِ A medley, or mixed or promiscuous multitude or collection, of men, or people, of various tribes; as also جُمَّاعٌ alone: or the latter, people scattered, or in a state of dispersion.
5 جُمَّاعٌ also signifies The place [either properly or tropically] which comprises the origin of anything; the source of descent or extraction of people; and hence applied by I 'Ab to main tribes from which other tribes are derived; or, as some say, used by him as meaning various classes of men, such as are termed أَوْزَاع and أَوْشَاب.
6 [And The main, or most essential, part of a thing. Thus,] جُمَّاعُ جَسَدِ الإِنْسَانِ means The head of the man.
7 جُمَّاعُ التَّمْرِ The contraction (تَجَمُّع) of the envelopes of the flowers of dates, in one place, upon [the germs of] the fruit, or produce, thereof.
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