عِمَارَةٌ
1.
[is a verbal noun: and often signifies Habitation and cultivation; or a good state of habitation and cultivation:
2.
and is also explained as signifying] مَا يُعْمَرُ بِهِ المَكَانُ [That by which a place is rendered inhabited, peopled, well stocked with people and the like, colonized, cultivated, well cultivated, in a flourishing state, or in a state the contrary of desolate or waste or ruined; apparently meaning, work, or labour, by which a place is rendered so; as it is immediately added in the K that عُمَارَةٌ signifies hire, pay, or wages, of it, or for it; and the explanation which I have here given is agreeable with ancient and modern usage; to which it may be further added, that the measure (فِعَالَةٌ) is common to words signifying arts, occupations, or employments, as زِرَاعَةٌ and فِلَاحَةٌ &c.]. (K, TA.)
3.
Also a subst. from عَمَرَ الدَّارَ. (Msb.) [It has two significations, either of which may be meant in the Msb: The act, or art, of building a house:
4.
and A building; a structure; an edifice: generally, according to modern usage, a public edifice: plural عَمَايءِرُ. See also عُمْرَانٌ.]
5.
Also The breast of a man. (TA.)
6.
Hence, (TA,) عِمَارَةٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and
عَمَارَةٌ, (Msb, K,) the latter allowed by Kh, (O,) but the former is the more common, (Msb,) A great tribe, synonym قِبِيلَةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ, (Msb,) or حَىٌّ عَظِيمٌ, (O, K, TA,) that subsists by itself, migrating by itself, and abiding by itself, and seeking pasturage by itself: (O, TA:) or it is called by the former name because it peoples a land; and by the latter, because complex like a turban; (TA;) and
عَمِيرَةٌ signifies the same; or, as some say, all signify a
بَطْن: (Ham p. 682:) or i. q.
قَبِيلَةٌ and عَشِيرَةٌ: (S, O:) or less than a
قبيلة: (O, K:) or less than a
قبيلة
and more than a
بَطْن: (IAth, TA:) [see also شَعْبٌ:] or a body of men by which a place is peopled: (B, TA:) plural عَمَايءِرُ. (TA.)
7.
See also عَمَارَةٌ, in two places.