كمرة
Arabic
Noun
كَمِرَة • (kamira) f (plural كَمِرَات (kamirāt))
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek καμάρᾱ (kamárā) or Latin camara.
Noun
كَمَرَة • (kamara) f (plural كِمَار (kimār))
- the tip of the penis, the glans
- Synonyms: حَشَفَة (ḥašafa), فَيْشَلَة (fayšala)
- 15th century CE, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī, نَوَاضِرُ الْأَيْكِ فِي مَعْرِفَةِ النَّيْكِ [nawāḍiru l-ʔayki fī maʕrifati n-nayki, The Vibrant Thickets: On the Knowledge of Sex]:
- قَالَ أَبُو خَالِدٍ الْمُعْتَزِلِيُّ: وَدَدْتُ لَوْ أَنَّ كَمَرَتَيْنِ فِي رَأْسِي، حَتَى إِذَا جَامَعْتُ أَدْخُلَ كَمَا أَنَا فِي حِرِ الْمَرْأَةِ.
- qāla ʔabū ḵālidini l-muʕtaziliyyu: wadadtu law ʔanna kamaratayni fī raʔsī, ḥatā ʔiḏā jāmaʕtu ʔadḵula kamā ʔanā fī ḥiri l-marʔati.
- ʾAbū Ḵālid the Muʿtazilite once said, "I wish there were a double glans on my head so that, when I make love, I can slide whole inside the woman's orifice."
- arch, vault
- beam, girder, what is somewhere on top and bears load
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Derived terms
References
- “كمرة” in Almaany
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “كمرة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 488
- Freytag, Georg (1837), “كمرة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 58–59
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “كمرة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2631
- Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “كمرة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1119
Hijazi Arabic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.mi.ra/, [ka.mɪ.ra]
South Levantine Arabic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.ma.ra/, [ˈkɑ.mɑ.rˤɑ]
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