سَمَارٌ
Root: سمر
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سَمَارٌ
Thin milk: milk containing much water: or [diluted] milk of which water composes two thirds: n. un. with ة, signifying some thereof.
2 [See also a tropical usage of this word in a prov. cited voce رَبَضٌ.]
def.2 [In the present day it is also applied to A species of rush, growing in the deserts of Lower and Upper Egypt, of which mats are made for covering the floors of rooms; the juncus spinosus of Forskål, who writes its Arabic name “ sammar; ” the
2 [See also a tropical usage of this word in a prov. cited voce رَبَضٌ.]
def.2 [In the present day it is also applied to A species of rush, growing in the deserts of Lower and Upper Egypt, of which mats are made for covering the floors of rooms; the juncus spinosus of Forskål, who writes its Arabic name “ sammar; ” the
juncus acutusβ
of Linn.]
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