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خَمَرٌ خمار خمر A covert of trees &c.: (ISk, S, Mgh, K:) or a place where the ground is eaten away by a torrent, or an oblong tract of sand collected together and elevated, forming a place for concealment: (ISk, S:) and a hollow, or cavity, in which a wolf conceals himself: and tangled trees. (TA.) You say, تَوَارَى الصَّيْدُ مِنِّى فِى خَمَرِ الوَادِى [The game, or wild animal or animals, concealed itself, or themselves, from me in the covert, &c., of the valley]. (S.) And هُوَ يَدِبُّ لَهُ الضَّرَآءَ وَ يَمْشِى لَهُ الخَمَرَ (assumed tropical:) [He creeps to him in the thicket, or place overgrown with trees; and he walks to him in the covert of trees, &c.: see Freytag's Arab. Prov. 913]: speaking of a man when he deceives, or circumvents, his companion. (S.) And جَآءَنَا عَلَى خَمْرٍ and ↓ على خِمْرَةٍ (assumed tropical:) He came to us secretly; unexpectedly; clandestinely. (K.) ― -b2- Hence, (S,) خَمَرٌ and ↓ خُمَارٌ and ↓ خَمَارٌ (S, K) and ↓ خَمْرَةٌ (K) (assumed tropical:) A crowding, (S,) or congregation, (K,) and multitude, of men or people. (S, K.) You say, النَّاسِ ↓ دَخَلَ فِى خَمَارِ and ↓ خَمَارِهِمْ , dial. vars. of غُمَار and غَمَار, i. e. (tropical:) He entered among the crowding and multitude of the men or people; (S;) and in like manner, فى ↓ خَمَرْتِهِمْ and غَمَرْتِهِمْ; (TA;) as also فى خَمَرِهِمْ and غَمَرِهِمْ: (TA in art. غمر:) or among such [a crowd] of the people as hid him. (ISk, S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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