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مُغَامِرٌ

Root: غمر

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مُغَامِرٌ One who plunges, or rushes without consideration, into places of peril: one who throws himself into difficulties, troubles, or distresses; as also مُغَمِّرٌ : or one who enters into difficulties, troubles, or distresses, and makes another, or others, to do so; like مُغَامِسٌ. Applied to a courageous man as meaning One who incurs the rigours, or pangs, of death. And One who contends in an altercation, or a dispute: or who enters into the main part [or the thick or thickest] of an altercation or a dispute: and some say that it is from الغِمْرُ, and means regarding, and regarded, with rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite.
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