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جُمَّاحٌ جماح An arrow, (S, K,) or a small arrow, (L,) without an iron point, having a round head, with which the art of shooting is learned (S, L, K) by a boy: (S, L:) or one with which boys play, putting upon its head a date or some clay, in order that it may not wound: (L:) or it signifies also a date put upon the head of a piece of wood, with which boys play: (K:) birds are shot at with it, and knocked down, without being killed, so that the shooter takes them: and it is also called جُبَّاحٌ: (T, TA:) or a boy's arrow, upon the end of which he puts a lump of chewed dates of the size of the عِفَاض [here meaning stopper] of a bottle, in order that it (the end) may go more directly, and be smooth; without feathers, and sometimes without a notch. (AHn, L.) -A2- Also That [kind of plant] at the extremities of which come forth what resemble ears of wheat, soft, (L, K,) like foxes' tails, or (L) resembling the heads of the حَلِىّ and the صِلِّيَان and the like: (L, K:) a coll. gen. n.: n. un. with ة: (L:) pl. جَمَامِيحُ; and in poetry جَمَامِحُ; (L, K;) the latter allowable only in cases of necessity. (L.) -A3- See also جَمُوحٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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