مُذَمِّرٌ
Root: ذمر
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مُذَمِّرٌ
A man who inserts his hand into the vulva of a she-camel, to discover if her fœtus be a male or a female: because he feels its مُذَمَّر, and thus knows it: he feels its jaw-bones: if they be thick, it is a male; and if thin, a female. El-Kumeyt says,
[And he whose business it was to feel the fœtus, for the purpose of discovering if it were male or female, said to those assisting the she-camels in bringing forth, When, before my time, were the legs felt to discover the sex of the fœtus?]: for it is the head that is felt, as above explained. The مُذَمِّر is, to camels, as the midwife to human beings.وَقَالَ المُذَمِّرُ لِلنَّاتِجِينَ مَتَى ذُمِّرَتْ قَبْلِىَ الأَرْجُلُ
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