Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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ضِمَارٌ ذ A place, or a valley, that is depressed, concealing him who is journeying in it. (O.) [Accord. to the K, الضِّمَارُ is “ A place; ” i. e. the name of a certain place.] ― -b2- مَالٌ ضِمَارٌ Property of which one hopes not for the return: (K:) or absent property of which one hopes not for the return: (A 'Obeyd, Msb, TA:) if not absent, it is not thus called. (A 'Obeyd, TA.) ― -b3- دَيْنٌ ضِمَارٌ A debt of which the payment is not hoped for: (S:) or for the payment of which no period is fixed. (K, * TA.) ― -b4- عَطَآءٌ ضِمَارٌ A gift that is not hoped for. (A.) ― -b5- وَعْدٌ ضِمَارٌ, (S,) and عِدَةٌ ضِمَارٌ, (A, K, [من العَذابِ in the CK being a mistranscription for مِنَ العِدَاتِ, as in other copies of the K and in the TA, in which latter is added that عِدَات is pl. of عِدَةٌ, which is syn. with وَعْدٌ,]) A promise of which the fulfilment is not hoped for: (S, A:) or of which the fulfilment is delayed. (K.) ― -b6- ضِمَارٌ also signifies Anything of which one is not confident, or sure. (S.) ― -b7- And A debt of which the payment is deferred by the creditor to a future period; or a sale upon credit, in which the payment is deferred to a definite period; or a postponement, or delay, as to the time of the payment of a debt or of the prince of a thing sold &c.; syn. نَسِيْئَةٌ. (Fr, TA.) ― -b8- Also Unseen; not apparent; contr. of عِيَانٌ. (K.) A poet says, censuring a certain man, “ وَعَيْنُهُ كَالكَالِئِ الضِّمَارِ
” [And his present gift is a thing not hoped for, like the unseen debt of which the payment is deferred by the creditor:] meaning, his present gift is like the absent that is not hoped for. (TA.) ― -b9- ذَهَبُوا بِمَالِى ضِمَارًا means They took away my property by gaming. (Fr, TA.) -A2- Also A certain idol, which was worshipped by El-Abbás Ibn-Mirdás. (O, K, TA. [It is implied in the K that it is with the art. ال; but it is not so accord. to the O and TA.])