قِطْمِيرٌ

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قِطْمِيرٌ and قِطْمَارٌ The cleft (شَقّ) of a date-stone: or the integument (قِشْرَة) that is upon it (فِيهَا): the thin skin called فُوفَة, which is upon a date-stone, between the stone and the date itself: or the white point [i. e. the embryo] in the back of the date-stone, from which [when it is sown] the palm-tree grows forth.
2 [Hence,] A small, mean, paltry, contemptible, thing. So the former signifies in the Kur, xxxv. 14. One says also مَا أَصَبْتُ مِنْهُ قِطْمِيرًا, meaning, I obtained not of him, or it, anything.

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