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1 سَمَرَ ذ , (S, M, K,) aor. سَمُرَ , (S, M,) inf. n. سَمْرٌ and سُمُورٌ, (M, K,) He held a conversation, or discourse, by night: (S:) or he waked; continued awake; did not sleep: (M, K:) and ↓ اسمر may signify the same; or may be of the same class as أَهْزَلَ and أَسْمَنَ, and thus signify he had, or came to have, a سَمَر [or conversation, or discourse, by night]. (M.) [See also 3.] ― -b2- سَمَرَتِ المَاشِيَةُ, aor. سَمُرَ , inf. n. سُمُورٌ, (assumed tropical:) The cattle pastured by night without a pastor; or dispersed themselves by night: (M, TA:) [or simply pastured by night; for] one says, إِِنَّ إِِبِلَنَا تَسْمُرُ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily our camels pasture by night: (TA:) and سَمَرَتِ الإِِبِلُ لَيْلَتَهَا كُلَّهَا (tropical:) The camels pastured during their night, the whole of it. (A.) And سَمَرَتِ المَاشِيَةُ النَّبَاتَ (assumed tropical:) The cattle pastured upon the herbage; (M, K;) aor. as above: (M:) [or pastured upon the herbage by night: like as one says,] سَمَرَ الخَمْرَ (assumed tropical:) He drank mine, or the mine, (K, TA,) by night: (TA:) and بَاتُوا يَسْمُرُونَ الخَمْرَ (tropical:) They passed, or spent, their night drinking wine, or the wine. (A.) ― -b3- See also سَمِيرٌ, in three places. -A2- سَمُرَ, (S, M, Msb, K,) aor. سَمُرَ ; (K;) and سَمِرَ, (S, K, in a copy of the M سَمَرَ,) aor. سَمَرَ ; inf. n. of each سُمْرَةٌ; (K;) and ↓ اسمارّ , (S, M, K,) inf. n. اِسْمِيرَارٌ; (S;) He, or it, was, or became, [tawny, brownish, dusky, or dark in complexion or colour; i. e.,] of the colour termed سُمْرَة [expl. below]. (S, M, Msb, K.) -A3- سمَرَهُ: see 2, first signification. ― -b2- [Hence,] سمَرَ عَيْنَهُ i. q. سَمَلَهَا, (M, K,) which signifies He put out, or blinded, (فَقَأَ,) his eye with a heated iron instrument: (S and Msb in art. سمل:) or he put out, or blinded, (كَحَلَ,) his eye with a مِسْمَار [or nail] (Mgh, Msb, TA) of iron (TA) made hot (Mgh, Msb, TA) in fire: (Msb:) or [simply] he put out, or blinded, his eye; syn. فَقَأَهَا. (K.) -A4- سَمَرَ اللَّبَنَ: -A5- and سَمَرَ سْمَهُ: see 2.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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