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جُمَّيْزٌ جميز (S, K) and ↓ جُمَّيْزَى (K) [The sycamorefig: and the sycamore fig-tree: ficus sycomorus; also called the Egyptian fig:] the male fig; (K, TA;) which is found in the Ghowr, or Ghór, [here meaning the Valley of the Jordan,] (TA,) and is sweet: (K, TA:) this is the yellow: the black makes the mouth bleed: (TA:) it is of various colours, or kinds, (أَلْوَان,) (K, * TA;) abundant in Syria and in Egypt: n. un. جُمَّيْزَةٌ: (TA:) [a fruit] resembling the تِين [or common fig]: (S:) AHn says, of the kinds of fig is the fig of the جُمَّيْز, a sweet, moist fig, which has long fruit-stalks, and which is dried in the sun: and there is another species of the جمّيز, the fruit of which is like the fig in make, but its leaves are smaller than those of the fig, and its figs are yellow, of a small size, and black: it is found in the Ghowr, or Ghór, and is called the male fig: the yellow is sweet: the black makes the mouth bleed: and its fig has no stalk, but cleaves to the wood. ('Abd-el-Lateef, Account of Egypt: White's ed., entitled Abdollatiphi Historiæ Aegypti Compendium: p. 22. See also De Sacy's notes to his transl. of that work, pp. 82—86.) ― -b2- [الجُمَّيْزَةُ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The pudendum muliebre: opposed to التِّينَةُ as meaning “ the anus. ”]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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