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مُضْمَرٌ

Root: ضمر

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مُضْمَرٌ Concealed, [or conceived,] in the mind. You say, هَوًى مُضْمَرٌ, meaning Concealed love; as also ضَمْرٌ ; as though the latter were believed to be an Verbal.Noun [used in the sense of a pass. part. n.] from the unaugmented, for the augmented, verb. See also ضَمِيرٌ.
2 Also The place of concealment, [or of conception,] in the mind. A poet, ElAhwas Ibn-Mohammad El-Ansáree, says, سَتَبْقَى لَهَا فِى مُضْمَرِ القَلْبِ وَالحَشَا سَرِيرَةُ وُدٍّ يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرَائِرُ [There will remain to her, in the hiding-place of the heart and the bowels, a secret love, on the day when secrets shall be revealed].
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