عِمَارَةٌ
Root: عمر
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عِمَارَةٌ
[is an Verbal.Noun: and often signifies Habitation and cultivation; or a good state of habitation and cultivation:
2 and is also expl. as signifying] مَا يُعْمَرُ بِهِ المَكَانُ [That by which a place is rendered inhabited, peopled, well stocked with people and the like, colonized, cultivated, well cultivated, in a flourishing state, or in a state the contrary of desolate or waste or ruined; app. meaning, work, or labour, by which a place is rendered so; as it is immediately added in the K that عُمَارَةٌ signifies hire, pay, or wages, of it, or for it; and the explanation which I have here given is agreeable with ancient and modern usage; to which it may be further added, that the measure (فِعَالَةٌ) is common to words signifying arts, occupations, or employments, as زِرَاعَةٌ and فِلَاحَةٌ &c.].
3 Also a subst. from عَمَرَ الدَّارَ. [It has two significations, either of which may be meant in the Msb: The act, or art, of building a house:
4 and A building; a structure; an edifice: generally, accord. to modern usage, a public edifice: pl. عَمَائِرُ. See also عُمْرَانٌ.]
def.2 Also The breast of a man.
2 Hence, عِمَارَةٌ and عَمَارَةٌ , the latter allowed by Kh, but the former is the more common, A great tribe, syn. قِبِيلَةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ, or حَىٌّ عَظِيمٌ, that subsists by itself, migrating by itself, and abiding by itself, and seeking pasturage by itself: or it is called by the former name because it peoples a land; and by the latter, because complex like a turban; and عَمِيرَةٌ signifies the same; or, as some say, all signify a بَطْن: or i. q. قَبِيلَةٌ and عَشِيرَةٌ: or less than a قبيلة: or less than a قبيلة and more than a بَطْن: [see also شَعْبٌ:] or a body of men by which a place is peopled: pl. عَمَائِرُ.
def.3 See also عَمَارَةٌ, in two places.
2 and is also expl. as signifying] مَا يُعْمَرُ بِهِ المَكَانُ [That by which a place is rendered inhabited, peopled, well stocked with people and the like, colonized, cultivated, well cultivated, in a flourishing state, or in a state the contrary of desolate or waste or ruined; app. meaning, work, or labour, by which a place is rendered so; as it is immediately added in the K that عُمَارَةٌ signifies hire, pay, or wages, of it, or for it; and the explanation which I have here given is agreeable with ancient and modern usage; to which it may be further added, that the measure (فِعَالَةٌ) is common to words signifying arts, occupations, or employments, as زِرَاعَةٌ and فِلَاحَةٌ &c.].
3 Also a subst. from عَمَرَ الدَّارَ. [It has two significations, either of which may be meant in the Msb: The act, or art, of building a house:
4 and A building; a structure; an edifice: generally, accord. to modern usage, a public edifice: pl. عَمَائِرُ. See also عُمْرَانٌ.]
def.2 Also The breast of a man.
2 Hence, عِمَارَةٌ and عَمَارَةٌ , the latter allowed by Kh, but the former is the more common, A great tribe, syn. قِبِيلَةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ, or حَىٌّ عَظِيمٌ, that subsists by itself, migrating by itself, and abiding by itself, and seeking pasturage by itself: or it is called by the former name because it peoples a land; and by the latter, because complex like a turban; and عَمِيرَةٌ signifies the same; or, as some say, all signify a بَطْن: or i. q. قَبِيلَةٌ and عَشِيرَةٌ: or less than a قبيلة: or less than a قبيلة and more than a بَطْن: [see also شَعْبٌ:] or a body of men by which a place is peopled: pl. عَمَائِرُ.
def.3 See also عَمَارَةٌ, in two places.
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