كمرة

From English camera.

كَمِرَة • (kamira) f (plural كَمِرَات (kamirāt))

1. alternative form of كَاميرا (kāmērā, “camera”)

From Ancient Greek καμάρᾱ (kamárā) or Latin camara.

كَمَرَة • (kamara) f (plural كِمَار (kimār))

1. 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."

2. arch, vault
3. beam, girder, what is somewhere on top and bears load

• كَمَرَ (kamara, “to try to outdo with the size of the glans penis; to hurt the glans penis of”)
• مِكْمَرَة (mikmara, “damper”)

• “كمرة” in Almaany
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “كمرة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (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^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 58–59
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “كمرة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2631.
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “كمرة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1119

From English camera.

• IPA^(key): /ka.mi.ra/, [ka.mɪ.ra]

كمرة • (kamira) f (plural كمرات (kamirāt))

1. camera

   Alternative forms: كاميرا, كامرا

From English camera.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ma.ra/, [ˈkɑ.mɑ.rˤɑ]

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كمرة • (kamara) f (plural كمرات (kamarāt))

1. camera

   Synonym: آلة تصوير (ʔālet taṣwīr)

   كمرة فيديو ― kamrat vīdyo ― video camera