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إِِمْرَةٌ أمار أمر أمره إِمرة امره امرة مار مر آمر آمره آمرة a subst. from أَمَرَ [q. v.]; Possession of command; the office, and authority, of a commander, governor, lord, prince, or king; (M, * Msb, K;) as also ↓ إِِمَارَةٌ (Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ أَمَارَةٌ ; (L, K;) but this last is by some disallowed, and is said in the Fs and its Expositions to be unknown. (MF.) It is said in a trad., لَعَلَّكَ سآءَ تْكَ إِِمْرَةُ ابْنِ عَمِّكَ Perhaps thy paternal uncle's son's possession of command hath displeased thee. (TA.) ― -b2- [And hence, (assumed tropical:) Increase, or abundance, or the like; as also other forms mentioned in what follows.] You say, فِى وَجْهِ مَالِكَ تَعْرِفُ إِِمْرَتَهُ (assumed tropical:) In the face of thy property, [meaning such as consists in camels or the like, and also money,] thou knowest its increase and abundance, and its expense: (S:) or ↓ إِِمَّرَتَهُ , and ↓ إِِمّرَتَهُ , which latter is a dial. var. of weak authority, and ↓ أَمَّرَتَهُ , i. e., its increase and abundance: (M:) or ↓ إِِمَّرَتَهُ as meaning its prosperous state; as also ↓ أَمَارَتَهُ , and ↓ أَمْرَتَهُ : (Ibn-Buzurj:) accord. to AHeyth, who reads ↓ تُعْرَفُ إِِمَّرَتُهُ , the meaning is, its decrease; but the correct meaning is, its increase, as Fr explains it. (T, TA.) It is said respecting anything of which one knows what is good in it at first sight: (Lh, M:) and means, on a thing's presenting itself, thou knowest its goodness. (T.) One says also, ↓ مأَحْسَنَ أَمَارَتَهُمْ (assumed tropical:) How good is their multiplying, and the multiplying of their offspring and of their number! (M.) And ↓ لَا جَعَلَ اللّٰهُ فِيهِ إِِمَّرَةً (assumed tropical:) May God not make an increase to be therein. (T.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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