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القُمَّحَانُ ذ , thus accord. to the Basrees, (TA,) and القُمَّحَانُ, and ↓ القُمْحَةُ , (K,) The [plant called] وَرْس [q. v.]: (S, K, TA:) or [the kind of perfume called] الذَّرِيرَةُ: (TA:) or (so accord. to the K and TA, but in the S “ also, ”) a substance that comes upon the surface of wine, like الذَّرِيرَة: (S, K, TA:) it is the froth, or scum, thereof: (L, TA:) or, as some say, (TA, but in the K “ and, ”) saffron: (K, TA:) or a certain perfume: or a white substance that overspreads wine resembling الذَّرِيرَة: this last is said to be what is meant in the following verse by En-Nábighah [Edh-Dhubyánee], the only poet known by AHn to have mentioned القمّحان: “ إِِذَا فُضَّتْ خَوَاتِمُهُ عَلَاهُ
يَبِيسُ القُمَّحَانِ مِنَ المُدَامِ
” [When its seals are broken, what is exsiccated of the white substance resembling particles of calamus aromaticus of the wine comes, or appears, upon its surface]. (L, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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