Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Sign Up
Home › Dictionary › حمارة

حَمَارَّةٌ

Root: حمر

Full Definition

حَمَارَّةٌ , a word of a rare form, of which the only other instances are said to be حَبَالَّةٌ and زَرَافَّةٌ and زَعَارَّةٌ and سَبَارَّةٌ and صَبَارَّةٌ and عَبَالَّةٌ, and sometimes حَمَارَةٌ , without teshdeed, in poetry, and in prose also, as is said by Lh and others, The intenseness of heat of summer; and so حَمْرَآءُ ; which also signifies the same in relation to the noon, or summer-noon; and حَمْرَى , (Az, TA in art. بيض,) and حِمِرٌّ : or the most intense heat of summer; as also حِمِرٌّ : and sometimes, though rarely, used in relation to winter [as signifying the intenseness of cold; like صَبَارَّةٌ]: pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] حَمَارٌّ .

def.2 See also حِمَارَةٌ, last sentence.


Lane's Lexicon — The most scholarly Arabic-English dictionary available

The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor. A work of such unique greatness that to this day it remains supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography.

✓ Full text search • ✓ Root-based navigation
✓ Advanced filters • ✓ Mobile access

Go to LanesLexicon

Trusted by 1000+ researchers worldwide
Featured on Fons Vitae • Used by universities globally

Related Words from the Same Root

Verbs

Nouns