أَمَرَةٌ

Stones: (K:) [or a heap of stones:] or it is the n. un. of أَمَرٌ, which signifies stones: (M:) or the latter signifies stones set up in order that one may be directed thereby to the right way: (Ham p. 409:) and the former also signifies a hill; (M, K;) and أَمَرٌ is [used as] its plural: (M:) and a sign, or mark, by which anything is known; (M, K;) as also أَمَارٌ and أَمَارَةٌ; (As, S;) and أَمَرٌ is [used as] its plural in this sense also: (M:) or a sign, or mark, set up to show the way; (AA, Fr;) as also أَمَارٌ and أَمَارَهٌ: (K:) or a small sign, or mark, of stones, to show the way, in a waterless desert; (S;) as also أَمَارٌ [and أَمَارَةٌ]; and any sign, or mark, that is prepared: (TA:) or a structure like a مَنَارَة [here apparently meaning a tower of a mosque], upon a mountain, wide like a house or tent, and larger, of the height of forty times the stature of a man, made in the time of 'Ád and Irem; in some instances its foundation being like a house, though it consists only of stones piled up, one upon another, cemented together with mud, appearing as though it were of natural formation: (ISh, T:) the plural (in all the senses above, K) [or rather the coll. gen. n.,] is أَمَرٌ. (S, K.)