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شبم

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

شَبَمٌ ذ Cold, or coldness; (S, Msb, K;) accord. to the M, of water: (TA:) but one says غَدَاةٌ ذَاتُ شَبَمٍ [ A morning having coldness ]: (S:) and يَوْمٌ ذُو شَبَمٍ A day having coldness. (Msb.) ― -b2- Jureybeh Ibn-El-Ashyam El-Fak'asee says, وَقَدْ شَبَّهُوا العِيرَ أَفْرَاسَنَا فَقَدْ وَجَدُوا مَيْرَهَا ذَا شَبَمْ [ And they likened our horses to the camels carrying provision of corn; but they found their provision to be something having coldness ]; meaning, accord. to Aboo-Riyásh, that they found death; for death is cold; and poison also is cold: but there is another reading, accord. to which the last word is بَشَمْ, meaning “heaviness,” such as results from food. (Ham p. 363.) See also the next paragraph.

Derived headwords

شَبَمٌ
  1. 1.
ذَاتُ شَبَمٍ
يَوْمٌ ذُو شَبَمٍ
وَقَدْ شَبَّهُوا العِيرَ أَفْرَاسَنَا
فَقَدْ وَجَدُوا مَيْرَهَا ذَا شَبَمْ