سَمُرٌ

A certain kind of tree, (M, K,) well known; (K;) i. q. طَلْحٌ [the gum-acacia-tree; acacia, or mimosa, gummifera]; (Msb;) or [a species] of the طَلْح, (S,) of the kind called عِضَاه, (Mgh, Msb,) having small leaves, short thorns, and a yellow fruit (بَرَمَة) which men eat: there is no kind of عضاه better in wood: it is transported to the towns and villages, and houses are covered with it: (M:) its produce is [a pod] termed حُبْلَةٌ [q. v.]: (TA in article حبل:) [the mimosa unguis cati of Forskål (Flora Aegypt. Arab., pp. cxxiii. and 176:)] n. un. سَمُرَةٌ: (M, Mgh, Msb, K:) [in the S, سَمُرٌ is said to be plural of سَمُرَةٌ: but it is a coll. gen. n.:] the plural of سَمُرَةٌ is سَمُرَاتٌ, and أَسْمُرٌ, a plural of pauc., of which the diminutive is ↓ أُسَيْمِرٌ. (S.) It is said in a prov., أَشْبَهَ شَرْجٌ ↓ شَرْجًا لَوْ أَنَّ أُسَيْمِرًا [Sharj would resemble Sharj if a few gum-acacia-trees were found there: Sharj is a certain valley of El-Yemen: for the origin of this prov., see Freytag's Arab. Prov., i. 662]. (S.) يَا أَصْحَابَ السَّمُرَةِ [O people of the gumacacia-tree], in a saying of the Prophet, was addressed to the persons meant in the Qur'an, 48:18. (Mgh.)