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جُمَّاعٌ جماع Anything of which the several component parts are collected, brought, gathered, or drawn, together. (IDrd, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] as an epithet, applied to a woman, it means Short. (TA.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] جُمَّاعٌ الثُّرَيَّا The cluster of the Pleiades: (IDrd:) or persons who collect together for the rain of the Pleiades, which is the rain called الوَسْمِىّ, looking for the fruitfulness and herbage resulting from it. (IAar.) ― -b4- And جُمَّاعُ النَّاسِ A medley, or mixed or promiscuous multitude or collection, of men, or people, (S, Msb, K,) of various tribes; (S, K;) as also جُمَّاعٌ alone: (TA:) or the latter, people scattered, or in a state of dispersion. (Ham p. 302.) ― -b5- جُمَّاعٌ also signifies The place [either properly or tropically] which comprises the origin of anything; (K, TA;) the source of descent or extraction of people; and hence applied by I 'Ab to main tribes from which other tribes are derived; or, as some say, used by him as meaning various classes of men, such as are termed أَوْزَاع and أَوْشَاب. (TA.) ― -b6- [And The main, or most essential, part of a thing. Thus,] جُمَّاعُ جَسَدِ الإِِنْسَانِ means The head of the man. (TA.) ― -b7- جُمَّاعُ التَّمْرِ The contraction (تَجَمُّع) of the envelopes of the flowers of dates, in one place, upon [the germs of] the fruit, or produce, thereof. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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