جمّر
Root: جمر
Form: 2
Full Definition
2 جَمَّرَتْ شَعَرَهَا, Verbal.Noun تَجْمِيرٌ; and , and ; She collected together her hair, and tied it in knots, or made it knotted and crisp, (عَقَدَتْهُ, S, A, Msb,) at the back of her neck; not letting it hang down loosely: or plaited it: and جمّر شَعَرَهُ he collected together his hair at the back of his head: and رَأْسَهَا she collected together the hair of her head, and plaited it: and شَعَرَهُ he disposed his hair in ذَوَائِب [or locks hanging down loosely from the middle of the head to the back, or plaits hanging down].
3 And جمّر It necessitated a people to unite together.
4 Also, He detained the army in the territory of the enemy, or on the frontier of the enemy's country, and did not bring them back from the frontier: the doing of which is forbidden: or he detained them long on the frontier of the enemy, and did not give them permission to return to their families: or he collected them on the frontiers of the enemy, and kept them from returning to their families.
def.2 See also 4:
2 and 5.
def.3 جمّر الثَّوْبَ, Verbal.Noun as above, He fumigated the garment with perfume; as also : but the former is the more common. And جمّر المَسْجِدَ, or , accord. to different modes of writing the surname of a certain No'eym, i. e., المُجَمِّرُ or المُجْمِرُ, [and accord. to different copies of the K,] He fumigated the mosque with perfume: [or perhaps it may mean he strewed the ground of the mosque with pebbles; from جَمْرَةٌ; like حَصَّبَهُ, from حَصَبَةٌ or حَصْبَآءُ or حَصْبَةٌ.]
2 And جمّر [for جمّر لَحْمًا] He put flesh-meat upon live coals [to roast].
def.4 Also, Verbal.Noun as above, He threw the pebbles [in the valley of Minè]; and so استجمر . (TA in art. تو.) Hence, يَوْمُ التَّجْمِير [The day of the throwing of the pebbles, by the pilgrims, in the valley of Minè]. [See جَمْرَةٌ.]
def.5 جمّر النَّخْلَةَ, He cut off the heart, or pith, (جُمَّار,) of the palmtree.
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