Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عُمْرَانٌ

Root: عمر

Full Definition

عُمْرَانٌ [an Verbal.Noun of عَمَرَ:
2 and of عَمَرَهُ:
3 then app. used as an epithet syn. with عَامِرٌ, q. v.:
4 and then as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant; meaning A land, or house, inhabited, peopled, well people, well stocked with people and the like, in a flourishing state, in a state the contrary of desolate or waste or ruined; a land colo- nized, cultivated, or well cultivated; a house in a state of good repair: such seems to be meant in the JK and A and K, in art. خرب, where, as in the O in this art., it is said to be contr. of خَرَابٌ, q. v.]
5 It is also a subst. signifying بُنْيَانٌ [A building; a structure; and edifice: or perhaps the act of building]. [See also عِمَارَةٌ.
6 It is also a pl. of عَامِرٌ, q. v.]


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