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اِسْتِثْمار

Word

Noun · pattern اِسْتِفْعال

Root

ث م ر

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • ثَمَرَ Form I It (fruit) was, or became, ripe
    : see 4, in three places. ― -b2- Also It (fruit) was, or became, ripe. (T.) ― -b3- ثَمَرَ لِلْغَنَم He collected trees (which are called ثَمَر, TA [or rather shrubs]) for the sheep or goats. (K.) -A2- ثَمِرَ, aor. , (tropical:) It (a man's wealth) became abundant. (A, TA.) ― -b2- فُلَانٌ مَجْدُودُ مَا يَثْمَرُ (tropical:) [Such a one is fortunate in the abundance of his wealth: or] such a one possesses wealth. (A, TA.)
  • ثمّر Form II It (a plant) shook off its blossoms
    , inf. n. تَثْمِيرٌ, It (a plant) shook off its blossoms, [or shed them,] and organized and compacted (in the M عَقَدَ, and in the K عَقَّدَ) its fruit. (AHn, M, K.) ― -b2- ثمّر السِّقَآءُ, inf. n. as above; and ↓ اثمر; (tropical:) The skin [of milk] showed upon it the forming of the butter in little clots: (S, M, * K:) and ثمّر اللِّبَنُ, and ↓ اثمر, (T, * A,) (tropical:) the milk, being churned, showed upon it what resembled dry scabs on the skin, (T, A,) previously to their becoming large and collecting together and forming butter: and you say of the skin [containing it], ثمّر and ↓ اثمر: (T:) and الزُّبْدُ ↓ اثمر (assumed tropical:) the butter collected together. (T.) -A2- Also (assumed tropical:) He (God) made a man's wealth abundant. (S) And (tropical:) He (a man) increased, and made abundant, his wealth. (M, K.)
  • اثمر Form IV It (a tree) put forth its fruit
    , [inf. n. إِثْمَارٌ,] It (a tree) put forth its fruit: (T, S:) or put forth its fruit yet unripe: (IAar:) or began to put forth its fruit: (T, Msb:) or bore fruit; as also ↓ ثَمَرَ, (M, K,) aor. : (TA:) or [اثمر signifies it bore fruit; and ↓ ثَمَرَ, it attained the time of bearing fruit: or the former, it bore unripe fruit; and the latter, it bore ripe fruit: or the former, it attained the time for the plucking of its fruit; and the latter, it put forth its fruit: for it is said that] ↓ مَثْمِرٌ signifies bearing fruit; and ↓ ثَامِرٌ, that has attained the time of bearing fruit: or the former, unripe fruit; (M;) and the latter ripe fruit: (T, M:) or the former, that has attained the time for plucking; (AHn, M, K;) and the latter, that has put forth its fruit: (K:) or the latter of these epithets is applied to a tree, signifying bearing ripe fruit; and to fruit, signifying ripe. (IAar, TA.) ― -b2- He (a man) had fruit that had come forth but that was not yet ripe. (T.) ― -b3- (tropical:) He (a man) became abundant in wealth; (T, S, M, A, K;) as also ↓, ثَمَرَ, (A, K,) aor. , (TA,) inf. n. ثُمُورٌ. (A, TA.) ― -b4- ↓ مَا أَثْمَرَ ٱبْنُ ثَمِيرٍ (tropical:) [As long as the moonlight-night renews itself, or recurs; i. e. ever]. (TA.) ― -b5- See also 2, in four places. -A2- This verb is mentioned by most of the lexicologists only as intrans.; but it is also trans., signifying It (a tree, or (tropical:) other thing,) produced fruit, (tropical:) &c. (Shifá el-Ghaleel, MF.) ― -b2- Also He fed a person with fruits. (TA.)
  • ثُمْرٌ Open entry
    : see ثَمَرٌ, in two places.
  • ثَمَرٌ fruit of trees
    (T, S, M, A, Msb, K) and ↓ ثَمُرٌ (Sb, M, A) and ↓ ثِيمَارٌ, (M,) [coll. gen. ns.,] The fruit of trees; (M, K;) the several kinds of fruits; (T;) the fruit which a tree produces, whether it is eaten or not eaten: (Msb:) pl. of the first, ثِمَارٌ; and pl. pl. (i. e. pl. of ثِمَارٌ, Fr, S, M, Msb) ثُمُرٌ; and pl. pl. pl. (i. e. pl. of ثُمُرٌ, S, Msb) أَثْمَارٌ; (S, Msb, K;) and the pl. of أَثْمَارٌ is أَثَامِيرُ; (IHsh, TA:) or ثُمُرٌ is pl. of ثَمَرٌ; (AHeyth, TA;) or it may be pl. of ثَمَرَةٌ, because it is of a form more common as that of a pl. of a word of this form than of the form of ثِمَارٌ: (M:) ثَمَرَةٌ is the n. un. of ثَمَرٌ, (S, M, K,) and ثَمُرَةٌ is that of ثَمُرٌ: (Sb, M, K: *) the pl. of ثَمَرَةٌ is ثَمَرَاتٌ (S, Msb) and ↓ ثَمْرَآءُ: (K:) [or rather this last is a quasi-pl. n.:] ثَمُرَةٌ, which none but Sb mentions, has, accord. to him, no broken pl.: (M:) IHsh says that there is no word like ثَمَرٌ in its series of pls. except أَكَمٌ. (MF: see أَكَمَةٌ.) ― -b2- Also ثَمَرٌ, (M, A, K,) or ↓ ثَمُرٌ, (T, S,) and ↓ ثُمْرٌ, (S,) and ↓ ثَمَارٌ, (K,) or ↓ ثِيمَارٌ, (M,) or ↓ ثَيْمَارٌ; (TA;) of which last three, the first (ثمار) is disapproved by several writers; and some say that it is for ثَمَرٌ, the second vowel being lengthened for the sake of metre; (MF;) (tropical:) Property, or wealth, (T, S,) increased and multiplied: (S:) or various kinds of property or wealth, (I'Ab, M, K,) increased and multiplied, and gained, or acquired, for oneself: (I'Ab, B:) or, accord. to Mujáhid, ثَمَرٌ, in the Kur, means fruit; and ↓ ثَمُرٌ, property, or wealth; but Yoo did not admit this, app. holding both to mean the same: (T:) in the Kur xviii. 32, AA read ↓ ثُمْرٌ, and explained it as signifying kinds of property or wealth. (S.) ― -b3- ثَمَرٌ also signifies (tropical:) Gold and silver: (AAF, M, K:) so accord. to Mujáhid in the Kur xviii. 32; but this is not known in the proper language. (AAF, M.) ― -b4- And Trees [or shrubs]: (TA:) and ثَمَرَةٌ a tree [or shrub]. (Th, M, K. [In the CK, erroneously, ثَمْرَة.]) ― -b5- And [the n. un.] ثَمَرَةٌ, [in the CK, erroneously, ثَمْرَة,] (tropical:) A child, or son; (K, B, TA;) as also ثَمَرَةُ القَلْبِ, [of which other meanings will be found below,] and ثَمَرَةُ الفُوأَادِ [lit., like the next preceding expression, fruit of the heart]: accord. to some, in the Kur ii. 150, الثَّمَرَات means الأَوْلَاد [or children] and الأَحْفَاد [or grandchildren, &c.]. (B, TA.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) Progeny; or offspring. (K.) [Whence, app.,] قُطِعَتْ ثَمَرَتُهُ (assumed tropical:) His [power of] procreating was cut off: or his appetite for sexual intercourse. (TA from a trad.) [Another meaning of this phrase will be found below.] ― -b7- (assumed tropical:) The fruit, as meaning the profit, of a thing: (Msb, TA:) as that of knowledge, namely, good works; and that of good works, namely, Paradise. (TA.) Hence, لَيْسَ لَهُ ثَمَرَةٌ (assumed tropical:) There is no profit pertaining to it. (Msb.) [Hence also,] ثَمَرَةُ مَالٍ (assumed tropical:) The increase of property. (A.) ― -b8- (tropical:) The knot of the extremity, (A,) or of the extremities, (K,) of a whip; (A, K;) because like a fruit in its form and in its manner of hanging: (B, TA:) and ثَمَرٌ, the knots of the extremities of whips: (S, Mj, Mgh:) or the former signifies the end, or extremity, of a whip: (T:) or, more correctly, the tail, which is [the appendage that forms] the end, or extremity, of a whip; its عَذَبَة. (Mgh.) ― -b9- (tropical:) The extremity, (T, K,) or tip, (A,) of the tongue: (T, A, K:) or its lower extremity. (IAth, TA.) ― -b10- (tropical:) A man's prepuce: pl. ثِمَارٌ: so in the phrases قُطِعَتْ ثَمَرَةُ فُلَانٍ, and قُطِعَتْ ثِمَارُهُمْ, meaning (tropical:) Such a one was circumcised, and they were circumcised. (A.) [Another meaning of the former of these phrases has been mentioned above.] ― -b11- (assumed tropical:) The skin of the head. (ISh, T, K.) ― -b12- ثَمَرَةُ القَلْبِ [of which one meaning has been given above] also signifies (assumed tropical:) The heart's core; or the black, or inner, part of the heart; syn. سُوَيْدَاوأُهُ, and حَبَّتُهُ. (S in art حب.) [Hence,] خَصَّنِى بِثَمَرَةِ قَلْبِهِ (tropical:) [He distinguished me peculiarly, or specially,] by his love, or affection. (A, TA.) And أَعْطَاهُ صَفْقَةَ يَدِهِ وَثَمَرَةَ قَلْبِهِ (tropical:) [He gave him his ratification of the bargain, and] his sincerest agreement. (A, TA.) ― -b13- فِى السِّمَآءِ ثَمَرَةٌ and ثَمَرٌ (tropical:) In the sky is a small portion, or quantity, of cloud. (A, TA.) ― -b14- ثَمَرُ الحِنَّآءِ: see art. حنأ. ― -b15- See also ثَمِيرٌ.
  • ثَمُرٌ Open entry
    : see ثَمَرٌ, in three places.
  • ثَمِرٌ blessed with increase
    (tropical:) Wealth blessed with increase: (A, TA:) or much, or abundant, wealth; as also ↓ مَثْمُورٌ. (K.) ― -b2- أَرْضٌ ثَمِرَةٌ: see ثَمْرَآءُ. ― -b3- مَا نَفْسِى لَكَ بِثَمِرَةٍ (tropical:) My mind has no sweetness for thee: (K, TA:) but accord. to Z, in the A, art. تمر, the last word in this phrase is with ت, and so it is written in the K in that art., and explained as meaning طَيِّبَةٌ [or agreeably affected]. (TA.)
  • ثَمْرَآءُ A tree having fruit
    : see ثَمَرٌ, first sentence. -A2- شَجَرَةٌ ثَمْرَآءُ A tree having fruit; (S;) of which the fruit has come forth: (K:) or abounding with fruit; as also ↓ ثَمِيرَةٌ: or this latter signifies the same as ↓ مُثْمِرَةٌ; and its pl. is ثُمُرٌ. (AHn, M.) And أَرْضٌ ثَمْرَآءُ Land abounding with fruit; as also ↓ ثَمِيرَةٌ, (AHn, M, K,) or ↓ ثَمِرَةٌ. (So in some copies of the K, and in the TA.)
  • ثَمَارٌ Open entry
    : see ثَمَرٌ, second sentence.
  • ثَمِيرٌ Milk of which the butter has not come forth
    ; fem. with ة: hence شَجَرَةٌ ثَمِيرَةٌ, and أَرْضٌ ثَمِيرَةٌ: see ثَمْرَآءُ. ― -b2- ثَمِيرٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) Milk of which the butter has not come forth; (M, K;) and so ↓ ثَمِيرةٌ: (K:) or both signify milk of which the butter has appeared: (M, K:) or لَبَنٌ ثَمِيرٌ, milk of which the butter has not been taken forth: (TA in art. جهر:) or milk of which the butter has formed into little clots: (IAth, TA:) and ↓ لَبَنٌ مُثَمِّرٌ [in like manner], milk fit for churning, and showing upon it the formation of little clots of butter: (As, M:) and ↓ ثَمِيرَةٌ, (as some say, M,) (tropical:) what appears, of butter, before it collects together (S, M, * K) and attains the time of its becoming in a good, or proper, state: (S, M:) and ↓ ثَمَرٌ, what is seen upon milk, when it has been churned, resembling dry scabs on the skin, (T, A,) is also termed the ↓ ثَمِيرَة of milk. (T.) [See 2.] ― -b3- اِبْنُ ثَمِيرٍ (tropical:) The moonlight-night, (S, M, K,) when the moon is full; (TA;) [contr. of اِبْنُ سَمِيرٍ.] See 4.
  • ثَمِيرَةٌ Open entry
    fem. of ثَمِيرٌ. ― -b2- Also a subst.: see ثَمِيرٌ, in three places.
  • ثَامِرٌ Perfect, or complete, in respect of forbearance, or clemency
    : see 4. ― -b2- ثَامِرُ الحِلْمِ (tropical:) Perfect, or complete, in respect of forbearance, or clemency; like ripe fruit. (IAar, M.) ― -b3- الثَّامِرُ The flower of the حُمَّاض [or rose-coloured sorrel]; (AHn, M, K;) which is red. (TA.) ― -b4- The لُوبِيَآء [dolichos lubia of Forskål]. (AHn, M, K.)

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