سَمَارٌ
1.
Thin milk: (S:) milk containing much water: (Th, M, K:) or [diluted] milk of which water composes two thirds: n. un. with ة, signifying some thereof. (M.)
2.
[See also a tropical usage of this word in a prov. cited voce رَبَضٌ.]
3.
[In the present day it is also applied to A species of rush, growing in the deserts of Lower and Upper Egypt, of which mats are made for covering the floors of rooms; the juncus spinosus of Forskål, (Flora Aegypt. Arab., p. 75,) who writes its Arabic name “ sammar; ” the juncus acutus
β
of Linn.]