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2 جمّر جمر , inf. n. تَجْمِيرٌ; (K;) and ↓ جَمَرَ ; (Msb;) He collected together (Msb, K) a people, and anything. (Msb.) ― -b2- جَمَّرَتْ شَعَرَهَا, inf. n. تَجْمِيرٌ; (S, A, K;) and ↓ جَمَرَتْهُ , (Msb,) and ↓ أَجْمَرَتْهُ ; (K;) She (a woman) collected together her hair, (S, A, Msb, K,) and tied it in knots, or made it knotted and crisp, (عَقَدَتْهُ, S, A, Msb,) at the back of her neck; (S, A, Msb, K;) not letting it hang down loosely: (S:) or plaited it: (T, TA:) and جمّر شَعَرَهُ he collected together his hair at the back of his head: (Mgh:) and رَأْسَهَا ↓ اجمرت she collected together the hair of her head, and plaited it: and شَعَرَهُ ↓ اجمر he disposed his hair in ذَوَائِب [or locks hanging down loosely from the middle of the head to the back, or plaits hanging down]. (TA.) ― -b3- And جمّر It (a thing) necessitated a people to unite together. (TA.) ― -b4- Also, (inf. n. as above, S,) He (a commander, As, A) detained the army in the territory of the enemy, (S, K,) or on the frontier of the enemy's country, (A,) and did not bring them back (S, A, K) from the frontier: (S:) the doing of which is forbidden: (TA:) or he detained them long on the frontier of the enemy, and did not give them permission to return to their families: (As, TA:) or he collected them on the frontiers of the enemy, and kept them from returning to their families. (TA.) -A2- See also 4: ― -b2- and 5. -A3- جمّر الثَّوْبَ, (A, Mgh, Msb,) inf. n. as above, (Mgh, Msb,) He fumigated the garment with perfume; (A, * Mgh, Msb;) as also ↓ اجمرهُ : (Mgh, Msb, K:) but the former is the more common. (Mgh.) And جمّر المَسْجِدَ, (Mgh, TA,) or ↓ اجمرهُ , accord. to different modes of writing the surname of a certain No'eym, i. e., المُجَمِّرُ or المُجْمِرُ, (TA,) [and accord. to different copies of the K,] He fumigated the mosque with perfume: (Mgh:) [or perhaps it may mean he strewed the ground of the mosque with pebbles; from جَمْرَةٌ; like حَصَّبَهُ, from حَصَبَةٌ or حَصْبَآءُ or حَصْبَةٌ.] ― -b2- And جمّر [for جمّر لَحْمًا] He put flesh-meat upon live coals [to roast]. (A.) -A4- Also, (A,) inf. n. as above, (S, A,) He (a pilgrim, A) threw the pebbles [in the valley of Minè]; (S;) and so ↓ استجمر . (TA in art. تو.) Hence, يَوْمُ التَّجْمِير [The day of the throwing of the pebbles, by the pilgrims, in the valley of Minè]. (A.) [See جَمْرَةٌ.] -A5- جمّر النَّخْلَةَ, (inf. n. as above, A,) He cut off the heart, or pith, (جُمَّار,) of the palmtree. (S, A. K. *)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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