Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حُمْرَةٌ

Root: حمر

Full Definition

حُمْرَةٌ [Redness;] a well-known colour; the colour of that which is termed أَحْمَرُ: it is in animals, and in garments &c.; and, accord. to IAar, in water [when muddy; for it signifies brownness, and the like: but when relating to complexion, whiteness: see أَحْمَرُ].
2 الحُمْرَةُ [Erysipelas: to this disease the term is evidently applied by Ibn-Seenà, in vol. ii. pp. 63 and 64 of the printed Arabic text of his قانون; and so it is applied by the Arabian physicians in the present day:] a certain disease which attacks human beings, in consequence of which the place thereof becomes red; a certain swelling, of the pestilential kind; differing from phlegmone.
3 ذُو حُمْرَةٍ Sweet: applied to fresh ripe dates.
4 See also حِمِرٌّ.


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