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عُمْرَانٌ ذ [an inf. n. of عَمَرَ: ― -b2- and of عَمَرَهُ: ― -b3- then app. used as an epithet syn. with عَامِرٌ, q. v.: (of which it is also a pl.:) ― -b4- and then as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant; meaning A land, or house, inhabited, peopled, well people, well stocked with people and the like, in a flourishing state, in a state the contrary of desolate or waste or ruined; a land colo- nized, cultivated, or well cultivated; a house in a state of good repair: such seems to be meant in the JK and A and K, in art. خرب, where, as in the O in this art., it is said to be contr. of خَرَابٌ, q. v.] ― -b5- It is also a subst. signifying بُنْيَانٌ [A building; a structure; and edifice: or perhaps the act of building]. (Msb.) [See also عِمَارَةٌ. ― -b6- It is also a pl. of عَامِرٌ, q. v.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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