Core sense — the thin skin on a date-stone; a paltry thinggenerated
1the cleft of a date-stone—قِطْمَارٌ
Or the white point [i. e. the embryo] in the back of the date-stone, from which [when it is sown] the palm-tree grows.
Or the covering that is on it.
Also the thin skin called فُوفَة that is on a date-stone, between the stone and the date itself.
1.1figurative · مجاز — inferredI got nothing at all from him, or from it—مَا أَصَبْتُ مِنْهُ قِطْمِيرًا
[Hence,] a small, mean, paltry, contemptible thing. The first of the two words above has this meaning in the Qur'ān 35:14.
Qur’ānic occurrences قِطْمِير
35:13
يُولِجُ ٱلَّيْلَ فِى ٱلنَّهَارِ وَيُولِجُ ٱلنَّهَارَ فِى ٱلَّيْلِ وَسَخَّرَ ٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ كُلٌّ يَجْرِى لِأَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ۚ ذَٰلِكُمُ ٱللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ لَهُ ٱلْمُلْكُ ۚ وَٱلَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِهِۦ مَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِن قِطْمِيرٍHe merges Night into Day, and he merges Day into Night, and he has subjected the sun and the moon (to his Law): each one runs its course for a term appointed. Such is Allah your Lord: to Him belongs all Dominion. And those whom ye invoke besides Him have not the least power.
Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.
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(S, K) and قِطْمَارٌ (K) The cleft ( شَقّ ) of a date-stone: (M, K:) or the integument ( قِشْرَة ) that is upon it ( فِيهَا ): (K:) the thin skin (S, K) called فُوفَة , which is upon a date-stone, (S,) between the stone and the date itself: (K:) or the white point [i. e. the embryo] in the back of the date-stone, (S, K,) from which [when it is sown] the palm-tree grows forth. (S.) [Hence,] A small, mean, paltry, contemptible, thing. So the former signifies in the Kur, xxxv. 14. One says also مَا أَصَبْتُ مِنْهُ قِطْمِيرًا , meaning, I obtained not of him, or it, anything. (TA.)