ثمر

Source of the root ث م ر (ṯ-m-r). Doublet of تَمْر (tamr, “date”).

• IPA^(key): /θa.mar/

ثَمَر • (ṯamar) m (collective, singulative ثَمَرَة f (ṯamara), plural ثِمَار (ṯimār) or ثُمُر (ṯumur) or أَثْمَار (ʔaṯmār))

1. (collective) the yield of flowering plants, botanical fruits, crops

   Hyponyms: خَضْرَاوَات (ḵaḍrāwāt), فَاكِهَة (fākiha)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:141:

     وَهُوَ الَّذِي أَنشَأَ جَنَّاتٍ مَّعْرُوشَاتٍ وَغَيْرَ مَعْرُوشَاتٍ وَالنَّخْلَ وَالزَّرْعَ مُخْتَلِفًا أُكُلُهُ وَالزَّيْتُونَ وَالرُّمَّانَ مُتَشَابِهًا وَغَيْرَ مُتَشَابِهٍ ۚ كُلُوا مِن ثَمَرِهِ إِذَا أَثْمَرَ وَآتُوا حَقَّهُ يَوْمَ حَصَادِهِ ۖ وَلَا تُسْرِفُوا ۚ إِنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُسْرِفِينَ

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   1. (collective) the typically sweet- or (less commonly) sour-tasting produce of plants, fruit, fruitage

      Synonym: فَاكِهَة (fākiha)

      Coordinate term: خَضْرَاوَات (ḵaḍrāwāt)

   2. (collective, by extension) something or someone resembling, likened to, or related to fruit (such as natural produce, the result of a happening or an action, offspring or progeny, the produce of anything, the fruit of one's labor, gain, advantage, profit, possessions, riches, money, and so on)
2. (collective, rare) the knots of the whiplash that lacerate the skin; the thong

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ثمر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 209

From Arabic ثَمَر (ṯamar).

ثمر • (samar)

1. fruit, result, use

   Synonyms: نتیجه (natije), محصول (mahsul)

   آن سیاست ثمر داد. ― ân siyâsat samar dâd. ― That policy was fruitful.

2. (literary) fruit (of plants)

   Synonym: میوه (mive)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “ثمر”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “ثمر”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

ثَمَر • (samar) m (Hindi spelling समर)

1. fruit

   Synonym: پھل (phal)