دمر

دَمَّرَ • (dammara) II (non-past يُدَمِّرُ (yudammiru), verbal noun تَدْمِير (tadmīr))

1. to destroy

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:أفنى

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 46:24-25:

     فَلَمَّا رَأَوْهُ عَارِضًا مُسْتَقْبِلَ أَوْدِيَتِهِمْ قَالُوا هٰذَا عَارِضٌ مُمْطِرُنَا بَلْ هُوَ مَا ٱسْتَعْجَلْتُم بِهِ رِيحٌ فِيهَا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
     تُدَمِّرُ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ بِأَمْرِ رَبِّهَا فَأَصْبَحُوا لَا يُرَى إِلَّا مَسَاكِنُهُمْ كَذٰلِكَ نَجْزِي الْقَوْمَ الْمُجْرِمِينَ

     fa-lammā raʔawhu ʕāriḍan mustaqbila ʔawdiyatihim qālū hāḏā ʕāriḍun mumṭirunā bal huwa mā staʕjaltum bihi rīḥun fīhā ʕaḏābun ʔalīmun
     tudammiru kulla šayʔin bi-ʔamri rabbihā fa-ʔaṣbaḥū lā yurā ʔillā masākinuhum kaḏālika najzī l-qawma l-mujrimīna

     And when they saw it as a cloud approaching their valleys, they said, "This is a cloud bringing us rain!" Rather, it is that for which you were impatient: a wind, within it a painful punishment,
     destroying everything by command of its Lord. And they became so that nothing was seen except their dwellings. Thus do We recompense the criminal people.

دمر • (damar)

1. lying flat; prone, prostrate

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “دمر”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

From Arabic دَمَّرَ (dammara).

• IPA^(key): /dam.mar/, [ˈdam.mar]

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دمّر • (dammar) II (present بدمّر (bidammer))

1. to destroy

   Synonym: خرّب (ḵarrab)