قمر

قَمِرَ

To have one's sight dazzled or obscured by moonlight or snow, becoming unable to see properly.

Said of a person or animal, or of the sight itself, when bright moonlight or snow impairs vision.

• Lane · entry 8917

قَمِرَ

To become sleepless in the moonlight.

A conventional use describing a person kept awake by moonlight.

• Lane · entry 8917

قَمَرَ

To gamble or contend with someone for stakes and overcome him in the game.

Used with games, gaming implements, or property as the object of a wager.

• Lane · entry 8918

قَامَرَ

To contend with someone for stakes or wagers; to gamble with him.

Refers to a game of hazard or another game in which the winner receives something from the loser.

• Lane · entry 8918

أَقْمَرَ

Of the new moon, to become a قَمَر at the stage called the third night.

A specialized description of the moon's early monthly development.

• Lane · entry 8919

أَقْمَرَ

To become moonlit or bright with moonlight; of a night, to become bright, or of people, to enter upon moonlight as the moon rises.

Used of a night or of people entering the period of moonlight.

• Lane · entry 8919

أَقْمَرَ

To wait for or watch for the rising of the moon.

A verbal use describing anticipation of moonrise.

• Lane · entry 8919

تَقَمَّرَ

To come or go in the moonlight; especially, to pursue or hunt animals or birds in it.

In hunting descriptions, the moonlight may dazzle the pursued animals' sight; the construction also describes a predator going out in moonlight in search of prey.

• Lane · entry 8920

تَقَمَّرَ

To deceive, beguile, or circumvent someone, intending harm without making its source apparent.

A figurative or idiomatic transitive use distinct from movement in moonlight.

• Lane · entry 8920

تَقَامَرَ

To gamble together or play a game of hazard for stakes.

A reciprocal construction describing several parties contending for wagers.

• Lane · entry 8921

القَمَر

Nighttime in which livestock are left to pasture without a keeper.

Occurs in the expression for leaving cattle to graze unattended at night, contrasted with doing so by day in the sun.

• Lane · entry 8922

القَمَرَانِ

The sun and the moon considered together.

A dual expression in which one of the two may be grammatically or rhetorically predominant.

• Lane · entry 8922

قُمَيْر

A diminutive name for the moon; conventionally, the moon during the dark interval called مُحَاق.

The specialized phase sense belongs to the diminutive expression rather than creating a separate sense of the Quranic noun قَمَر.

• Lane · entry 8922

قُمْرَة

A colour ranging from greenish or dingy white to clear or pure whiteness.

The term describes a colour quality whose exact shade is variously specified as dusky, dingy, or bright white.

• Lane · entry 8924

قَمَرِيّ

Lunar; of or relating to the moon.

Used attributively, as in a lunar year.

• Lane · entry 8925

قُمْرِيّ

A particular bird, especially a collared turtle-dove or related pigeon of a dull whitish colour.

The word is also used in feminine and plural forms for the corresponding bird group; its derivation is explained variously in the lexical tradition.

• Lane · entry 8926

قِمَار

A game of hazard or gambling for stakes.

Includes games such as مَيْسِر and other games in which the winner receives something from the loser.

• Lane · entry 8927

قَمِير

An opponent or participant in a gambling contest.

The plural is reported as أَقْمَار, an anomalous plural formation.

• Lane · entry 8928

أَقْمَر

Moon-coloured, white, or intensely white; by extension, moonlike in the whiteness of a face, and of clouds, bright white and full of water.

The colour may be described as dull, dusky, or greenish-tinged white; the cloud use associates intense brightness with abundance of water.

• Lane · entry 8929

قَمْرَاءُ؛ مُقْمِرَةٌ

A moonlit night or moonlight itself.

Used of a night in which the moon shines and in expressions meaning to sit or come in the moonlight.

• Lane · entry 8929
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مُقْمِر

In a proverbial expression, to have the light of the moon, meaning to wait patiently for the fulfilment of one's need.

This is an idiomatic proverbial interpretation, not a separate literal sense of moonlight.

• Lane · entry 8930

قَمَرَتِ القِرْبَةُ

Of a waterskin, to become spoiled or damaged through exposure to moonlight.

A specialized intransitive use describing deterioration attributed to moonlight.

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قَمَرَ

To deceive someone and divert or deprive him of something.

An idiomatic transitive use in which the object is deceived away from the matter in question.

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