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جَمْرَةٌ جمر جمره جمرة A live, or burning, coal; a piece of smokeless burning fire: (Msb:) or burning fire: (K:) [but the former is the correct explanation:] when cold, [before it is kindled,] it is called فَحْمٌ (TA) [or حَطَبٌ &c.]: and when reduced to powder by burning, رَمَادٌ: (L in art. رمد:) from جَمَّرَ “ he collected together: ” (Mgh:) pl. ↓ جَمْرٌ (S, Msb, K) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.] and جَمَرَاتٌ and جِمَارٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence,] فِى ↓ الجَمْرُ كَبِدِى (tropical:) [Live coals are in my liver]. (A.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] الجَمَرَاتُ الثَّلَاثُ (assumed tropical:) [The three live coals; meaning the first three degrees of heat]: the first is in the air; the second, in the earth, or dust; and the third, in the water: [or, accord. to the modern Egyptian almanacs, the first is in the air, and is cold, or cool; the second, in the water, and is lukewarm; and the third, in the earth, or dust, and is hot: the first falling exactly a zodiacal month before the vernal equinox; and each lasting seven days:] whence the saying, كَانَ ذٰلِكَ عِنْدَ سُقُوطِ الجَمْرَةِ (assumed tropical:) [That was at the time of the falling of the live coal]; i. e., when the heat had acquired strength. (TA.) -A2- Any body of men that have united together, and become one band, and that do not form a confederacy with any others: (S:) or a body of men that congregate by themselves, because of their strength and their great valour; [said to be] from the same word signifying “ a live coal: ” (Msb:) or any people that endure patiently fighting with those who fight them, not forming a confederacy with any others, nor uniting themselves to any others: (Lth, TA:) or a tribe that does not unite itself to any other: (K:) or that comprises three hundred horsemen, (K,) or the like thereof: (TA:) or a tribe that fights with a company of tribes: (TA:) pl. جَمَرَاتٌ. (S, Msb, K.) You say, بَنُو فُلَانٍ جَمْرَةٌ The sons of such a one are a people able to defend themselves, and strong. (TA.) جَمَرَاتُ العَرَبِ is an appellation especially applied to three tribes; namely, Benoo-Dabbeh Ibn-Udd, and Benu-l-Hárith Ibn-Kaab, and Benoo-Numeyr Ibn-' Ámir; (S, A, K;) the first of which became extinguished by confederating with Er-Ribáb, and the second by confederating with Medhhij; the third only remaining [a جمرة] because it formed no confederacy: (S:) or it is applied to 'Abs and El-Hárith and Dabbeh; all the offspring of a woman who dreamt that three live coals issued from her فَرْج. (S, K.) ― -b2- Also A thousand horsemen. (S, K.) One says جَمْرَةٌ كَالجَمْرَةِ [A troop of a thousand horsemen like the live coal]. (S, TA.) -A3- A pebble: (S, K:) or a stone: (Msb:) or a small stone or pebble: pl. جِمَارٌ (Mgh, Msb, Et-Towsheeh, TA) and جَمَرَاتٌ. (Mgh, Msb.) ― -b2- Also sing. of جَمَرَاتٌ (S, Msb, K) and of جِمَارٌ (TA) in the appellations جَمَرَاتُ مِنًى (Msb) or جَمَرَاتُ المَنَاسِكِ (S, K) and جِمَارُ المَنَاسِكِ, (TA,) which were three in number, (S, Msb, K,) called الجَمْرَةُ الأُولَى and الجَمْرَةُ الوُسْطَى and جَمْرَةُ العَقَبَةِ, (K,) at which جَمَرَات (i. e. small pebbles, TA) were cast; (S, K;) each of these being a heap of pebbles, at Minè, and each two heaps [or rather each heap and that next to it] being about a bow-shot apart: (Msb:) accord. to Th, from جَمَرَهُ “ he put him aside, apart, away, or at a distance: ” or from أَجْمَرَ “ he hastened; ” because Adam pelted Iblees in Minè, and he hastened away before him: (K, * TA:) or from تجمّروا “ they collected together: ” (Mgh:) or from جَمَرَهُ “ he collected it together. ” (Msb.) -A4- See also جَمِيرَةٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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