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إِِمَّرٌ أمار أمر امر مار مر آمر A man who consults every one respecting his case; as also ↓ أَمِرٌ and ↓ أَمَّارَةٌ : (M:) or a man resembling [in stupidity] a kid: [see the latter part of this paragraph:] (Th, M:) or, as also ↓ إِِمَّرَةٌ (S, M, K, &c.) and ↓ أَمَّرٌ and ↓ أَمَّرَةٌ , (K,) a man having weak judgment, (S, K,) stupid, (T, M,) or weak, without judgment, (M, L,) or without intellect, or intelligence, (T,) who obeys the command of every one, (T, S,) who complies with what every one desires to do in all his affairs; (K;) a stupid man, of weak judgment, who says to another, Command me to execute thine affair. (IAth.) It is said in a trad., مَنْ يُطِعْ إِِمَّرَةً لَا يَأْكُلْ ثَمَرَةً [He who obeys a stupid man, &c., shall not eat fruit: or the meaning is] he who obeys a stupid woman shall be debarred from good. (IAth.) ↓ إِِمَّرَةٌ is applied to a woman and to a man: when it is applied to a man, the ة is added to give intensiveness to the signification. (ISh.) The following saying, إِِذَا طَلَعَتِ الشِّعْرَى وَلَا إِِمَّرًا, ↓ سَفَرًا فَلَا تُرْسِلْ فِيهَا إِِمَّرَةً , in rhyming prose, means [When Sirius rises in the clear twilight,] send not thou among them (meaning the camels) a man without intelligence [in a great degree, nor one who is so in a less degree; or a woman without intelligence, nor a man without intelligence;] to manage them. (Sh.) ― -b2- Also, (M, K,) and ↓ إِِمَّرَةٌ and ↓ أَمَّرَ and ↓ أُمَّرٌ , (K,) A young lamb: (M, K:) or the first (إِِمَرٌ) and the second, a young kid: (M, TA:) or the former of these two, a male lamb: (M, TA:) or a young male lamb: (S:) and the latter of them, a female lamb: (M, TA:) or a young female lamb. (S, M.) One says, ↓ مَا لَهُ إِِمَّرٌ وَلَا إِِمَّرَةٌ , meaning He has not a male lamb nor a female lamb: (M, TA:) or he has not anything. (T, S, M.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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