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ذِمْرٌ ذ and ↓ ذَمِرٌ and ↓ ذِمِرٌّ and ↓ ذَمِيرٌ A courageous man: (S, * M, K: *) or who combines sagacity, or sagacity and cunning and craftiness, with courage, (M,) or with strength; (T;) and ↓ ذُمَائِرٌ has also this last signification: (TA:) or the four preceding words signify, (M,) or signify also, (K,) clever, intelligent, and a good assistant: (M, K:) pl. of the first (S, M) and second and fourth, (M,) أَذْمَارٌ; (S, M;) and pl. of the third, ذِمِرُّونَ. (M.) ― -b2- الذِّمْرُ and ↓ الذُّمَائِرُ are also names of Calamities, or misfortunes. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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