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, aor. ; (AZ, S, O, K;) and قَمُوأَت, (O, K,) aor. ; (K;) inf. n. قُمُوْءٌ and قُمُوءَةٌ, (AZ, S, O, K) both of the former verb, (AZ, S, O,) and قَمْءٌ (K) and قَمَآءَةٌ, (O, K,) which is of the latter verb, (O, TA,) and قَمَآءٌ, (K,) also of the latter verb; (TA;) The cattle became fat, or plump; (AZ, S, O, K;) as also ↓ اقمأت: (K:) the first is expl. in the T as meaning the cattle became full with fatness: and the epithet applied to them is there said to be ↓ قَامِيأَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- And قَمَأَتِ الإِبِلُ بِالمَكَانِ, (K, TA,) and قَمُوأَت, (K,) The camels abode in the place, (K, TA,) and were pleased with it, (TA,) because of its abundant pasture, and became fat, or plump, (K, TA,) in it. (TA.) And قَمَأَتِ المَاشِيَةُ مَكَانَ كَذَا حَتَّى سَمِنَتْ [The cattle abode in such a place until they became fat, or plump]. (TA.) See also 5. ― -b3- And قَمَأْتُ بِالمَكَانِ, (O, TA,) inf. n. قَمْءٌ, (TA,) I abode in the place: (O:) or I entered the place and abode in it. (TA.) And قَمَأَ إِلَى مَنْزِلٍ He went into an abode. (TA.) -A2- قَمَأَهُ is also syn. with قَمَعَهُ [q. v.]: (K:) the latter is affirmed to be the original word: (MF:) you say قَمَأْتُ الرَّجُلَ, meaning قَمَعْتُهُ. (O.) -A3- قَمُوأَ, (S, O, K,) aor. ; and قَمَأَ, aor. ; (K;) inf. n. قَمَآءَةٌ (S, O, K) and قَمَآءٌ, both of the former verb, (S, O,) and قُمْءٌ and قِمْءٌ, (so in copies of the K,) or قُمْأَةٌ and قِمْأَةٌ, (so in the TK,) and قَمْأَةٌ, (K,) which last is not an inf. n. un., (L, TA,) said of a man, (S, O, TA,) and of other than a man, (TA,) He was, or became, little and despicable (S, O, K, TA) in the eyes [of others]: (TA:) the former verb is the better known in this sense. (MF, TA.)

It (a thing, TA) did not suit him: (K, TA:) and so ما قَانَأَهُ. (TA.)

: see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- اقمأ القَوْمُ The people, or party, had their camels in a fat, or plump, state. (S, O, K.) ― -b3- اقمأ المَرْعَى الإِبِلَ The pasture, or place of pasture, suited the camels, (K, TA,) and rendered them fat, or plump. (TA, as from the K.) And اقمأهُ It (a thing, S, O, or a place, or pasture or a place of pasture, TA) pleased him. (S, O, K, TA.) -A2- And اقمأهُ He rendered him little and despicable. (S, O, K.)

(in the CK المكانُ) [He found that] the place suited him, and consequently he abode in it. (O, K.) ― -b2- تقمّأ الشَّىْءِ He took the best of the thing. (Th, K.) ― -b3- And He collected the thing little by little: (S, O:) and accord. to Z, الشَّىْءِ ↓ اقتمأ signifies He collected the thing. (TA.)

see what immediately precedes.

A place in which a she-camel, and a hecamel, and a woman, and a man, abides until she, or he, becomes fat, or plump. (TA.)

Abundance of herbage, or of the goods, conveniences, and comforts, of life; and ease, repose, or freedom from trouble or inconvenience or from toil or fatigue; as also ↓ قُمْأَةٌ. (K.) ― -b2- Also, and ↓ مَقْمَأَةٌ and ↓ مَقْمُوأَةٌ, (like مقنأ [a mistranscription for مقنأة] and مقنوأة, TA,) A place on which the sun does not come: (O, K:) pl. of the first word قِمَآءٌ. (TA.)

: see the next preceding paragraph.

Little and despicable (S, O, K, TA) in the eyes [of others]; fem. قَمِييأَةٌ: (TA:) pl. قِمَآءٌ and قُمَآءٌ; (K;) the latter of a [very] rare form. (TA.)

, fem. of قَامِيأٌ: see 1, first sentence.

and مَقْمُوأَةٌ: see قَمْأَةٌ.