ضمر

1 ضَمَرَ  , (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. ضَمُرَ ; (S, Msb, K;) and ضَمُرَ; (S, Msb, K;) inf. n. ضُمُورٌ, of the former, and ضُمْرٌ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) of the former also, (A, Mgh,) or of the latter, (Msb,) [also written ضُمُرٌ, (see an ex., voce نَهَارٌ,)] He (a horse, [&c.,] S, A, &c.) was, or became, lean, or light of flesh: (S:) or slender, and lean: (Msb:) or lean, and lank in the belly: (A, K:) or lank in the belly by reason of leanness: (Mgh:) and ↓ اضطمر signifies the same. (S, K.) [See also 5 and 8.] ― -b2- Also, inf. n. ضُمُورٌ, He became lean and weak. (TA.) ― -b3- ضَمُرَ العِنَبُ (assumed tropical:) The grapes became withered, so as to be neither fresh grapes nor raisins. (Sgh.) ― -b4- ضَمَرَتِ الحِنْطَةُ (assumed tropical:) The wheat, being parched over the fire, became contracted and small. (Mgh.) 2 ضمّرهُ  , inf. n. تَضْمِيرٌ, He made him (a horse) lean, or light of flesh; [&c.;] as also ↓ اضمرهُ . (S.) ― -b2- He prepared him (i. e. a horse) for racing, [or for a military expedition, (see مُضَمِّرٌ,)] by feeding him with food barely sufficient to sustain him, after he had become fat; as also ↓ اضمرهُ . (Msb:) he fed him with food barely sufficient to sustain him, after he had become fat; as also ↓ اضمرهُ : (K:) or he fed him with fodder so that he became fat, and then reduced him to food barely sufficient to sustain him; which is done during forty days: (S:) or he saddled him, and put on him a housing, in order that he might sweat under it, and so lose his flabbiness, and become firm in flesh; and then mounted upon him a light boy or young man, to make him run, but not to make him go so quick a pace as that which is termed عَنَق; by the doing of which, one becomes in no fear of his losing his breath in running, and a quick run does not cut him short: this (says AM) is what I have seen the Arabs practise; and they term it تَضْمِيرٌ, and also ↓ مِضْمَارٌ . (T, L.) ― -b3- Also He, or it, weakened, and subdued, and diminished, him: and the same signification is assigned to it [tropically] when the objective complement is a word denoting a sensation or passion. (TA.) ― -b4- التَّضْمِيرُ also signifies The plaiting well, and the anointing well, the lock of hair termed ضَمِيرَة. (TA.) 4 أَضْمَرَ see 2, in three places. -A2- اضمرهُ signifies also He determined, or resolved, upon it, فِى ضَمِيرِهِ in his heart, or mind. (Msb.) ― -b2- He conceived it in his heart, or mind. (MA, KL.) ― -b3- He concealed it, syn. أَسَرَّهُ, (A,) or أَخْفَاهُ, (K,) فِى قَلْبِهِ in his heart, (A,) or فى نَفْسِهِ in his mind. (S.) ― -b4- [And hence, He suppressed it, (namely a word or the like,) meaning it to be understood. ― -b5- And hence also اضمر meaning He made use of a pronoun.] ― -b6- And اضمر صَرْفَ الحَرْفِ [He suppressed the vowel of the final letter;] he made the movent [final] letter quiescent. (TA.) ― -b7- And أَضْمَرَتُهُ البِلَادُ (tropical:) The lands, or countries, hid him, by his having travelled far: (A:) and اضمرته الأَرْضُ (assumed tropical:) the earth hid him, either by reason of travel, or by death. (K, TA.) -A3- اضمر is also syn. with اِسْتَقْصَى [q. v.]. (O, K.) [Accord. to the TK, one says اضمر الشَّىْءَ meaning استقصاهُ.] 5 تضمّر وَجْهُهُ ذ His face became shrivelled, or contracted, by emaciation. (Sgh, L, K.) 7 انضمر ذ It (a branch, or twig,) became dried up. (TA.) 8 اضطمر  : see 1. ― -b2- Also He, (a horse,) after having been fed until he had become fat, was reduced to food barely sufficient to sustain him. (TA.) [See 2.] ضَمْرٌ  : see ضَامِرٌ, in two places. ― -b2- Hence, in the opinion of ISd, as he says in the M, it is also applied to a horse as meaning دَقِيقُ الحَجَاجَيْنِ [i. e. Thin in the bones surrounding, or projecting over, the cavities of the eyes: in the TA, الهجاجين, an obvious mistranscription; and in the TK, الحجاجتين, which is also wrong]: on the authority of Kr: in the copies of the K, الحَاجِبَيْنِ. (TA.) ― -b3- And Narrow; (O, K;) applied to a place. (O.) ― -b4- And i. q. ↓ ضَمِيرٌ [app. in the first of the senses assigned to the latter below]. (O, K: in the CK ضِمِّير.) See also. مُضْمَرٌ. ضَمْرَانٌ  (S, O, K) and ↓ ضُمْرَانٌ (TA) A certain plant, (S, O, K,) of the shrub-kind (مِنْ دِقِّ الشَّجَرِ): (K:) or of the kind called حَمْض: AM says, it is not of the shrub-kind, and has [what are termed] هَدَب [q. v.] like the هَدَب of the أَرْطَى: (TA:) AHn says, it resembles the رِمْث, except that it is yellow (أَصْفَرُ [app. a mistranscription for أَصْغَرُ i. e. smaller]), and it has little wood, [and] the small and dry parts of its branches are fed upon [by the camels] (يُحْتَطَبُ): he adds, on the authority of the ancient Arabs of the desert, that it is [of the kind called] حَمْض, green, lank, pleasing to the camels: and Aboo-Nasr says that it is of the kind called حَمْض. (O.) -A2- See also what next follows. ضُمْرَانُ ذ (A 'Obeyd, S, O, K, TA) and ↓ ضَمْرَان , thus, with fet-h, as said by As on the authority of ISk; each of the names of dogs; (TA;) a name of a male dog; (O, K;) not of a bitch, as J asserts it to be. (K.) -A2- See also the next preceding paragraph. ضِمَارٌ  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.]) ضَمِيرٌ ذ A thing that thou concealest, or conceivest, or determinest upon, (تُضْمِرُهُ,) in thy heart, or mind: (Lth, TA:) a secret; syn. سِرٌّ: (K:) a subst. from أَضْمَرَ فِى نَفْسِهِ شَيْئًا: (S:) pl. ضَمَائِرُ. (S, K.) ― -b2- [Hence used as meaning A pronoun; which is also termed ↓ مُضْمَرٌ , and اِسْمٌ مُضْمَرٌ, lit. a concealed noun, i. e. a noun of which the signification is not shown by itself alone; opposed to مُظْهَرٌ: pl. of the first as above; and of the second مُضْمَرَاتٌ.] ― -b3- See also ضَمْرٌ. ― -b4- And الضَّمِيرُ signifies The heart [itself]; the mind; the recesses of the mind; the secret thoughts; or the soul; syn. قَلْبُ الإِِنْسَانِ, and بَاطِنُهُ, (Msb,) or دَاخِلُ الخَاطِرِ: (A, K:) pl. as above, (Msb, K,) the sing. being likened to سَرِيرَةٌ, of which the pl. is سَرَائِرُ. (Msb.) [See also مُضْمَرٌ. And see an ex. in a verse cited in art. سيح, 7th conj.] -A2- Also Withered, or shrivelled, grapes, (O, K,) that are neither fresh grapes nor raisins. (O.) لَقِيتُهُ بِالضُّمَيْرِ  is a phrase mentioned by Sgh [in the O] as meaning I met him at sunset: but it is correctly [بِالصُّمَيْرِ,] with the unpointed ص. (TA.) ضَمِيرَةٌ  A lock, or plaited lock, of hair, such as is termed ضَفِيرَةٌ and غَدِيرَةٌ: pl. ضَمَائِرُ. (As, TA.) ضَامِرٌ  Lean, and lank in the belly; [&c.; see 1;] (A, K;) applied to a he-camel, (K,) and to a horse, as also ↓ ضَمْرٌ , and ↓ مُضَمَّرٌ , and ↓ مُضْطَمِرٌ ; (A;) and to a she-camel, (S, A, K,) as also ضَامِرَةٌ; (S;) [and to a man;] ضَامِرٌ applied to a she-camel being regarded as a possessive epithet [signifying ذَاتُ ضُمْرٍ]: (TA:) and ↓ ضَمْرٌ signifies also lank in the belly, and small and slender in person; applied to a man: (S, A, K:) fem. with ة: (A, K:) the pl. of ضَامِرٌ is ضُمَّرٌ. (Ham p. 473.) ― -b2- And A horse in a state of preparation for racing, by his having been fed with food barely sufficient to sustain him, after having become fat: and you say خَيْلٌ ضَامِرَةٌ and ضَوَامِرُ, meaning horses in that state. (Msb.) ― -b3- Applied to grain, it means Thin, or slender: (Mgh:) and to a branch or twig, sapless; dried up; as also ↓ مُنْضَمِرٌ . (K.) ضَوْمَرَانٌ  (S, O, Msb, K) and ضَوْمُرَانٌ (Msb) and ↓ ضَمْيُرَانٌ (O, Msb, K) and ضَيْمَرَانٌ (Msb) A species of the رَيَاحِين [or sweet-smelling plants]: (S, O:) or of the wild رَيْحَان: (K:) or the رَيْحَان فَارِسِىّ: (Msb, K:) Aboo-Nasr says that the ضيمران is the شَاهَسْفَرَم [or شَاهِسْفَرَم, i. e. basil-royal, or common sweet basil, ocimum basilicum]: AHn says, on the authority of an Arab of the desert, of El-Yemen, that the ضيمران is exactly like the حَوْك [which is one of the names now applied to sweet basil], of sweet odour, and is therefore asserted by some to be the شاهسفرم, but the ضيمران is wild; and he says that some call it ضَوْمَرَان. (O.) ذ and ضَيْمَرَانٌ: see the next preceding paragraph. مُضْمَرٌ  Concealed, (K,) [or conceived,] in the mind. (S.) You say, هَوًى مُضْمَرٌ, meaning Concealed love; as also ↓ ضَمْرٌ ; as though the latter were believed to be an inf. n. [used in the sense of a pass. part. n.] from the unaugmented, for the augmented, verb. (TA.) See also ضَمِيرٌ. ― -b2- Also The place of concealment, (K,) [or of conception,] in the mind. (S.) A poet, (S,) ElAhwas Ibn-Mohammad El-Ansáree, (TA,) says, “ سَتَبْقَى لَهَا فِى مُضْمَرِ القَلْبِ وَالحَشَا
سَرِيرَةُ وُدٍّ يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرَائِرُ
” [There will remain to her, in the hiding-place of the heart and the bowels, a secret love, (lit. a secret of love,) on the day when secrets shall be revealed]. (S, TA.) مُضَمَّرٌ  : see ضَامِرٌ. مُضَمِّرٌ  One who prepares his horses, by reducing them to scanty food, (يُضَمِّرُهَا,) for a military expedition or for racing. (TA.) مِضْمَارٌ  A training-place in which horses are prepared for racing [or for military service] by being fed with food barely sufficient to sustain them, after they have become fat: (S, * Msb, K: *) [a hippodrome; a place where horses are exercised:] pl. مَضَامِيرُ. (A.) You say, جَرَى فِى المِضْمَارِ [He ran in the hippodrome, or place of exercise]. (A.) And الغِنَآءُ مِضْمَارُ الشِّعْرِ (tropical:) [app. meaning Singing is that in which the excellences of poetry are displayed, like as the excellences of a horse are displayed in the hippodrome]. (A.) ― -b2- Also The time, of forty days, during which a horse is reduced to food barely sufficient to sustain him, after his having been fed with fodder so that he has become fat; (S, TA;) the time during which a horse is thus prepared for racing or for an expedition against the enemy: pl. as above. (TA.) It is said in a trad., اَلْيَوْمَ مِضْمَارٌ وَغَدًا الْسِّبَاقُ وَالسَّابِقُ مَنْ سَبَقَ الْجَنَّةَ [To-day is a time for training, and to-morrow is the race, and the winner is he who wins Paradise:] i. e., to-day one is to work, in the present world, for the desire of Paradise; like as a horse is trained for racing. (Sh.) [One of the explanations of المضمار in the K is غَايَةُ الفَرَسِ فِى السِّبَاقِ, or, as in the TA, لِلسِّبَاقِ; app. meaning The goal, or limit, of the horse in racing: but in the TA, these words are made to form part of an explanation which I have given before, i. e., the time during which a horse is prepared for racing, &c.] -A2- See also 2. لُؤْلُؤٌ مُضْطَمِرٌ  Contracted pearls: (K:) or pearls having somewhat of contraction in the middle. (S.) ― -b2- See also ضَامِرٌ. مُنْضَمِرٌ  : see ضَامِرٌ, last sentence. Credit: Lane Lexicon