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جُمَّارٌ جمار (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ جَامُورٌ (K) [each a coll. gen. n.] The heart, or pith, [or cerebrum,] of the palm-tree, (S, A, Msb, K, TA,) that is in the summit of its head, which part is cut off, and its outer portion is stripped off from the pith within it, which is a white substance, like a piece of the hump of a camel, large and soft: it is eaten with honey: (TA:) from it come forth the fruit and the branches; and when it is cut off, the tree dies: (Msb:) the spathe comes forth from it, amid the part whence two branches divide: (TA:) the head of the palmtree; a soft, white substance: from جَمَّرَ “ he collected together; ” for a similar reason termed كَثَرٌ: (Mgh:) n. un. جُمَّارَةٌ. (A, TA.) [See also قَلْبٌ.] You say, لَهُ سَاقٌ كَالجُمَّارَةِ He has a shank like a piece of the heart of the palm-tree. (A.) And الجُمَّارُ فِى خَلَاخِلِهِنَّ (tropical:) [Legs like the heart of the palm-tree are within their anklets]. (A.) Sakhr El-Hudhalee says, using a double trope, likening the fresh juicy stalks of the بَرْدِىّ to the pith of the palm-tree, and then applying this expression to the legs of a woman, “ إِِذَا عُطِفَتْ خَلَاخُلُهُنَّ غَصَّبْ
بِجُمَّارَاتِ بَرْدِىٍّ خِدَالِ
” (tropical:) [When their anklets are bent, (for the anklet of the Arab woman is formed of a piece of silver, or other metal, which is bent round so that the two ends nearly meet,) they are choked, or entirely filled up, with plump legs like the pith of the papyrus]. (A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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