شمع

شَمْعٌ ذ and شَمَعٌ, both chaste accord. to ISd: (TA:) accord. to Fr, (S, O, Msb, TA,) the former is post-classical; (S, O, Msb, K, TA;) but ISd says that this is a mistake: (TA:) accord. to ISk one should say the latter, and not the former: (TA:) or accord. to him, the word is with fet-h to the م, and some of the Arabs make the م quiescent: accord. to Th, it is with fet-h to the م; and if you will, you may make it quiescent: accord. to IF, the م is sometimes with fet-h; so that he gives one to understand that it is more frequently made quiescent: (Msb:) A kind of thing with which one lights himself: (S, O, Msb, K:) or i. q. مُومٌ [which, or rather مُومْ, in Pers., signifies both wax and the wax-candle; both of which or rather the former and wax-candles, are meant by شَمْعٌ and شَمَعٌ]: (ISk, TA:) or the مُوم of honey [i. e. bees' wax ]: (Lth, K:) the n. un., (CK,) or what denotes a piece, or portion, thereof, (so in copies of the K and in the TA,) is with ة, (K, TA,) شَمْعَةٌ and شَمَعَةٌ, (TA,) [i. e.] شمعة has a more particular signification. (S, O.)