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قمطر

Q. 4 إِِقْمَطَرَّ ذ It (a day, S) was, or became, distressful, or calamitous. (S, K.) قَمْطَرٌ ذ : see قَمْطَرِيرٌ. قِمَطْرٌ ذ and قِمَطْرَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and with tesh-deed, [i. e. قِمَّطْرٌ and قِمَّطْرَةٌ,] but this pronunciation is extr., (K,) or, accord. to Yaakoob, (S,) or ISk, (TA,) not allowable, (S, TA,) A repository for books or writings, (S, Msb, K, TA,) resembling a سَفَط, [q. v., (in the TA, سقط, which is evidently a mistake,)] made of reeds woven together: (TA:) the first word is fem., like the second, as well as masc.: (Msb:) pl. قَمَاطِرُ. (S, Msb.) يَوْمٌ قَمْطَرِيرٌ ذ , and ↓ قُمَاطِرٌ , (S, K,) and ↓ مُقْمَطِرٌّ , (TA,) A distressful, or calamitous, day: (S, K:) or a day that makes one knit the brow, or contract the skin between the eyes: so the first is explained by some as occurring in the Kur lxxvi. 10. (TA.) ― -b2- شَرٌّ قَمْطَرِيرٌ, (TA,) and ↓ قُمَاطِرٌ , and ↓ قَمْطَرٌ , (Lth, TA,) and ↓ مُقْمَطِرٌّ , (TA,) Intense evil. (Lth, TA.) قُمَاطِرٌ ذ : see قَمْطَرِيرٌ, in two places. مُقْمَطِرٌّ ذ : see قَمْطَرِيرٌ, in two places.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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