قطمر

Entries on قطمر in 9 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Zayn al-Dīn al-Razī, Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ, Ismāʿīl bin Ḥammād al-Jawharī, Tāj al-Lugha wa Ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿArabīya, Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab, and 6 more

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Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876) المعجم العربي الإنجليزي لإدوارد وليام لين

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قطمر

قِطْمِيرٌ (S, K) and قِطْمَارٌ (K) The cleft (شَقّ) of a date-stone: (M, K:) or the integument (قِشْرَة) that is upon it (فِيهَا): (K:) the thin skin (S, K) called فُوفَة, which is upon a date-stone, (S,) between the stone and the date itself: (K:) or the white point [i. e. the embryo] in the back of the date-stone, (S, K,) from which [when it is sown] the palm-tree grows forth. (S.) b2: [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) A small, mean, paltry, contemptible, thing. So the former signifies in the Kur, xxxv. 14. One says also مَا أَصَبْتُ مِنْهُ قِطْمِيرًا, meaning, (assumed tropical:) I obtained not of him, or it, anything. (TA.)