حمر

حَمَرَ

To pare, peel, skin, shave, or strip away a superficial covering, including the surface of the ground, hair, wool, or skin.

Also used of excoriating a person; the intensive derived form may apply the action to many objects.

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حَمَرَهُ بِاللِّسَانِ

To gall or excoriate someone with the tongue.

A figurative extension of stripping or chafing.

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حَمِيرٌ

A pared or peeled leather thong or strap used with a horse’s saddle.

Named from the fact that its outer surface has been pared.

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حَمِرَ

Of a horse or domestic animal: to suffer indigestion or a foul-smelling mouth from eating much barley.

The related causative use means to feed an animal until this condition results.

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حَمِرَ

To burn with anger or rage against someone.

Applied to a person; the associated adjectival use describes one burning with anger.

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حَمِرَتِ الدَّابَّةُ

Of an animal: to become like an ass in stupidity, dullness, or lack of vigor.

The evidence attributes the condition to excessive fatness.

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حَمَّرَ

To cut a thing into pieces or lumps like pieces of flesh.

A Form II transitive use.

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حَمَّرَ

To dye something red, including to write with red ink.

The writing use is an application of using red coloring.

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حَمَّرَ

To call another person an ass, addressing or naming him as such.

An insulting verbal use.

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مِحْمَرٌ

A hybrid or inferior horse, especially one of mixed or ignoble breeding and likened to an ass.

The term may denote a jade, a horse of mean race, or a bad, slow-running beast.

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حَمَّرَ

To speak the language or dialect of Himyer.

The related noun denotes the distinctive language and idioms of the Himyeri people.

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أَحْمَرَ

Of a man: to have a white child born to him.

A specialized Form IV usage.

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تَحَمَّرَ

To claim relationship to Himyer or imagine oneself one of its kings.

A self-assertive or pretended affiliation.

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اِحْمَرَّ

To become red.

The evidence distinguishes a constant state of redness from the accidental or fluctuating redness expressed by the related Form XI.

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اِحْمَرَّ البَأْسُ

For war to become vehement or fierce; for the fire of battle to burn fiercely.

A figurative construction using redness for the intensification of battle.

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تَحَمْيَرَ

To become evil in disposition.

A specialized lexical use distinct from the Himyeri affiliation sense.

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حُمَرٌ

The tamarind fruit.

A botanical noun, including the fruit and its tree in the cited description.

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حُمَرٌ

Asphaltum or bitumen, the substance called Jews’ pitch.

A technical material term.

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حُمْرَةٌ

Redness or the color red.

Applied to animals, garments, and other things; it may also describe brownish or muddy coloration in water.

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الحُمْرَةُ

Erysipelas or a reddish, pestilential swelling of the skin.

A medical term for a disease distinguished from phlegmon.

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ذُو حُمْرَةٍ

Fresh ripe dates, described as sweet.

A specialized descriptive expression for dates.

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غَيْثٌ حِمِرٌّ

Violent or copious rain that strips the surface of the ground.

The expression emphasizes both abundance and destructive force.

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حِمِرٌّ

A severe or arduous night journey to water.

An idiomatic noun rather than a description of color.

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حِمِرٌّ

Violence, vehemence, or extreme intensity.

A figurative extension applicable to things generally.

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حِمِرٌّ

The evil or mischief of a man.

A specialized nominal use.

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مُقَيِّدَةُ الحِمَارِ

A stony tract whose black, worn stones impede a wild ass.

A place-name-like expression explained through the animal’s being held back or shackled by the terrain.

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بَنُو مُقَيِّدَةِ الحِمَارِ

Scorpions.

An idiomatic plural expression associated with their being found in such stony terrain.

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حِمَارٌ

A wooden piece at the front of a saddle or riding frame, held by a woman when riding.

The term also applies to the corresponding piece in an ikāf saddle and to a stick supporting saddles.

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حِمَارٌ

The wooden implement on which a polisher works iron weapons and similar objects.

A technical implement name.

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حِمَارٌ

A wooden arrangement used to fasten or restrain a captive.

It consists of several crosswise pieces of wood.

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حِمَارُ الطُّنْبُورِ

The bridge of a mandoline or similar stringed instrument.

A named part of the instrument.

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حِمَارُ قَبَّانَ

A small many-legged woodlouse-like insect that contracts when touched.

Also called the house ass in the cited usage.

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الحِمَارَانِ

Two stones supporting a slab on which curdled milk is dried.

The two stones, together with the slab above them, form the described drying arrangement.

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الحِمَارَانِ

The two bright stars in Cancer.

A stellar designation.

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حِمَارَةٌ

A large or broad stone, especially stones set around a watering place or hunter’s booth to contain water or form an enclosure; also a broad stone placed over a grave trench.

The plural denotes such encircling or covering stones.

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حِمَارَةٌ

A piece of wood in a hoodaj, the covered riding vehicle.

A technical part-name.

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حِمَارَةٌ

A tripod of sticks used to hang a water skin or milk skin so that it may cool or be protected from insects.

The plural may denote several such bound sticks.

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حِمَارَةُ القَدَمِ

The raised or protuberant part of the foot above the toes and their joints.

An anatomical term.

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حِمَارِيٌّ

Of or relating to asses; asinine.

An adjectival formation from حِمَارٌ.

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حِمَارِيَّةٌ

Asininity or ass-like quality.

An abstract noun describing the quality rather than the animal itself.

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أَحْمَرُ

Brownish or otherwise resembling the color حُمْرَةٌ, including muddy coloration in water.

This records the broader classical color range beyond the Quranic red-color occurrence.

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أَحْمَرُ

Of a camel: saffron-like, unmixed red, or a similarly saturated color.

The feminine form is used with a she-goat in the cited description.

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حُمْرُ النَّعَمِ

High-bred or excellent camels; by extension, anything highly prized or valuable.

A figurative expression based on the prestige of the red camels.

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أَحْمَرُ

When applied to a man, white or fair-complexioned.

The term avoids the potentially unfavorable connotations of أَبْيَضُ when applied to a man.

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الحَمْرَاءُ

Foreigners collectively, especially Persians, Greeks, or other non-Arabs characterized by lighter complexions.

A collective social designation, not a literal color description of every individual.

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أَبْنَاءُ الحَمْرَاءِ

Emancipated slaves.

A collective appellation derived from the expression الحَمْرَاءُ.

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ابْنُ حَمْرَاءِ العِجَانِ

A reviling expression meaning the son of a slave woman.

An insulting or blaming idiom.

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أَحْمَرُ

An unarmed man.

A figurative usage with a plural in حُمْرٌ or حُمْرَانٌ.

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الحُسْنُ أَحْمَرُ

A proverb expressing that beauty is attended by difficulty or distress.

It may also evoke the hardship or danger associated with war.

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الأَحْمَرَانِ

In conventional paired expressions, the red pair may denote flesh and wine; related expressions use red and white for gold and silver, and the plural الأَحَامِرَةُ for combinations such as flesh, wine, and perfume.

These are fixed color-based metonymies, not ordinary descriptions of hue.

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المَوْتُ الأَحْمَرُ

Slaughter, violent death, or a fresh death associated with the spilling of blood.

The expression may also describe the terror and visual darkness or redness accompanying violent death.

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وَطْأَةٌ حَمْرَاءُ

A new or recent footprint.

Opposed to a dark footprint that is old and worn away.

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سَنَةٌ حَمْرَاءُ

A severe year, especially a year of drought.

The expression is explained through the reddish horizon or atmospheric appearance accompanying the hardship.

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حُمْرَ الكُلَى

Sheep or goats brought in a lean or emaciated condition.

A figurative expression, not a literal color description.

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تَحْمِيرٌ

A bad or defective kind of tanning.

A substantivized verbal noun.

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مِحْمَرٌ

An iron instrument or stone used to shave hair and dirt from a hide and to skin it.

A tool noun related to removing the surface of a hide.

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مِحْمَرٌ

An ignoble or mean man; one who gives only when pressed and importuned.

A figurative personal description distinct from the tool and horse senses.

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المُحَمِّرَةُ

A sect of the Khurramiyya identified by red banners.

The singular member is called مُحَمِّرٌ.

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يَحْمُورٌ

A wild ass; in some usages, a particular wild animal resembling a she-goat, commonly identified with the oryx.

A distinct lexical headword from the Quranic noun حِمَارٌ.

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يَحْمُورٌ

A certain bird.

A separate zoological use of the same headword.

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حَمَارَّةٌ

The intense heat of summer or of midday, especially the most intense summer heat.

Rarely extended to the intensity of winter cold.

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حُمَّرٌ

A kind of bird, described as resembling a sparrow; in one attribution, the lark.

A collective zoological noun, with singular forms also reported.

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حَمَّارٌ

A seller of asses.

An occupational noun formed from the ass designation.

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حَمَّارَةٌ

Owners or attendants of asses, especially those traveling with asses on a journey.

A collective noun; singular usage is also reported.

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الأَحْمَرُ

A kind or variety of dates named for its red color.

A specialized food term rather than a general color adjective.

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