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عَمْرَةٌ

Root: عمر

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عَمْرَةٌ : see عَمَارَةٌ.

def.2 أَبُو عَمْرَةَ means Bankruptcy, insolvency, or the state of having no property remaining; which is said to be thus called because it was the name of an envoy of El-Mukhtár the son of Aboo-'Obeyd, on the occasion of whose alighting at the abode of a people, slaughter and war used to befall them:
2 and hunger.
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