غمر

غَمُرَ

Of water: to become abundant, copious, or deep enough to conceal its bottom.

Used of water or a river.

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غَمُرَ

To abound in beneficence or generosity.

A figurative extension from abundance, applied to a person.

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غَمَرَ

To overflow, rise over, cover, conceal, or hide someone or something.

The subject may be water or another covering force; the transitive construction may also describe a person concealing another or something else.

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غَمَرَ

To rise above, surpass, or overtop others in eminence, excellence, or stature.

A figurative extension of being physically covered or overtopped.

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غَمْرٌ

Liberal, generous, or abounding in beneficence.

Applied to a person, especially in expressions concerning character or spontaneous bounty.

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غَمِرَ / غِمْرٌ

To harbor concealed enmity, rancor, malice, or violent hatred; concealed hostility itself.

The verbal construction غَمِرَ صَدْرُهُ عَلَى is used of enmity held in the breast.

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غَمِرَ / غَمَرٌ / غَمِرٌ

The foul smell of meat, fish, or their grease adhering to the hand; to have such a smell on the hand.

Includes the associated grease or residue that remains after handling meat.

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غَمُرَ / غُمْرٌ

Inexperienced, ignorant, or lacking sound judgment through lack of experience.

May describe a person inexperienced in affairs, war, counsel, judgment, or work.

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غَمَّرَ

To smear the face with غُمْرَة, a cosmetic or coloring preparation.

A transitive Form II usage describing application of the preparation to the face.

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غُمِّرَ

To be deemed or regarded as ignorant.

Passive Form II usage.

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غَمَّرَ

To give someone or an animal water in a small cup or in small bowls.

The verb may be doubly transitive when the recipient is given several small servings.

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غَامَرَ

To plunge into peril or conflict, engage someone in fighting, or contend in an altercation or dispute.

Form III; the construction may describe either entering the conflict oneself or engaging another party.

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تَغَمَّرَ

To drink only a small quantity, less than enough to satisfy thirst.

Used of a person or animal drinking from a small cup or taking the smallest draught.

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تَغَمَّرَ

Of livestock: to eat غَمِير, the green or succulent herbage described under that noun.

A specialized Form V usage applied to grazing animals.

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اِنْغَمَرَ

To immerse, plunge, or become immersed in water or another thing.

Form VII; may be used reflexively of entering a submerged or engulfing state.

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غَمْرٌ

Abundant, copious, or deep water; water or sea that drowns, submerges, or covers what enters it.

Also used adjectivally of a sea or other body of water.

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• Maqāyīs · row 3458
• Mufradāt · row 1068

غَمْرٌ

A horse fleet, swift, or excellent in running.

Figurative comparison with the abundance and force of overflowing water.

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غَمْرٌ

Ample or full, of a garment or piece of clothing.

A figurative adjectival usage.

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غَمْرٌ / غِمَارٌ

A dense crowd, throng, or multitude, and the pressing or jostling of people or water.

Used in expressions for entering or being among a crowded mass; the image is of people or water covering one another.

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غَمْرٌ

Intensely dark, of night.

An adjectival usage applied to a night.

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غِمْرٌ

Thirst.

The related expression may describe camels drinking a little or quenching their thirst only partially.

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غَمَرٌ

Drowning or being drowned.

Occurs in the expression مَوْتُ الغَمَرِ, death by drowning.

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غُمَرٌ

A small drinking cup or bowl, especially one used to divide scarce water among travelers.

It can denote the smallest type of drinking vessel and is associated with measured portions of water.

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غَمْرَةٌ

Difficulty, trouble, distress, or the pressure and severity of an ordeal.

In broader Classical Arabic it may describe the rigors of war, contention, or other severe circumstances; the Quranic death-pang usage is listed separately.

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غَمْرَةٌ

The main or thickest part of a contention, dispute, or battle.

Used in the construction غَمْرَةُ الخُصُومَةِ or غَمْرَةُ الحَرْبِ for the central or most intense phase of conflict.

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غُمْرَةٌ

A cosmetic or coloring preparation applied to the face, including preparations made with saffron or other described substances.

The term can also denote the coloring substance itself.

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غَمْرَةٌ

A person sound or penetrating in judgment when dealing with difficult matters.

An epithet applied to a person; the reported form is lexically distinct from the noun for an engulfing state.

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غَمِيرٌ

Green or succulent herbage, especially growth overtopped or concealed by dried vegetation; also a specialized plant growth associated with بُهْمَى.

The term is used for several closely related kinds of low or newly appearing verdure.

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غَامِرٌ

Much or abundant, especially when applied to property.

An adjectival usage describing plentiful possessions or wealth.

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غَامِرٌ

Immersed or in a state of being submerged.

A participial usage related to entering or remaining in an engulfing medium.

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غَامِرَةٌ

Palm trees that draw on a copious water source and do not require irrigation.

A specialized agricultural usage, reported as an attributed lexical application.

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غَامِرٌ / غَامِرَةٌ

Waste, desolate, ruined, or uncultivated land, and by extension a desolate house.

Especially land rendered unsown or unproductive by overflowing water, sand, dust, or excess seepage; it is contrasted with flourishing or cultivated land.

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أَغْمَرُ

More or most abundant, copious, or deep, especially of water; more surpassing or excelling than others.

Comparative and superlative adjective, with the second use applied to superiority in stature or distinction.

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مُغَمَّرٌ

A garment or piece of cloth dyed with غُمْرَة or saffron.

Passive participial noun describing the resulting dyed material.

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مُغَمَّرَةٌ

A person whose face has been smeared with غُمْرَة or a similar cosmetic.

A feminine participial form in the cited usage; the definition states the cosmetic condition without restricting the lexical sense to a particular object class.

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مَغْمُورٌ

Overflowed, covered, concealed, or rained upon.

Passive participle describing something overtaken by water or rain and thereby hidden or covered.

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مَغْمُورٌ

Overcome, subdued, or oppressed.

Figurative passive extension of being covered or overtaken.

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مَغْمُورٌ

Obscure, unknown, or without reputation; of obscure lineage.

A figurative usage in which a person is considered hidden or surpassed by others.

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مُغَامِرٌ

One who plunges without consideration into peril, difficulty, or the thick of a dispute; an adventurer or risk-taker.

May describe reckless or courageous entry into danger and, in conflict contexts, one who engages in heated contention.

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مُغْتَمِرٌ

Palm trees drawing water from a copious source.

A specialized agricultural participial usage.

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مُغْتَمِرٌ

Drunken or intoxicated.

Figurative participial usage, as though intoxication had submerged the person's reason.

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