شيم

شَامَةٌ ذ A mole, syn. خَالٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) upon the person; (Msb;) [i. e.] a pimple inclining to blackness, upon the person; (Mgh;) or a [ natural ] mark differing from the colour of the person upon which it is: (K, * TA:) its medial radical letter is originally ى: (S, TA:) and it is also with ء, i. e. شَأْمَةٌ: (IAth, TA:) pl. ↓ شَامٌ, (S, Msb, K,) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and [the pl. properly so termed is] شَامَاتٌ. (Msb, K.) حَتَّى تَكُونُوا كَأَنَّكُمْ شَامَةٌ فِى النَّاسِ [ So that ye may be as though ye were a mole amid the people ], occurring in a trad., means [that ye may] be in the goodliest garb or guise, appearing like the شامة, at which one looks exclusively of the rest of the person. (IAth, TA.) And one says, ↓ صَارُوا شَامًا فِى البِلَادِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) They became scattered [ in the countries ] like the شام [or moles ] upon the person. (TA.) ― -b2- Also A black mark upon the person, [an explanation which seems to apply, like the former in the K, to a mole, though given as differing therefrom,] and upon the ground: pl. [or coll. gen. n.] ↓ شَامٌ. (K.) ― -b3- It is also [ A mark, or spot, ] upon a mare, upon a place that is disapproved, and sometimes upon her دَوَائِر [which means what are termed feathers, pl. of دَائِرَةٌ, q. v.]. (ISh, TA.) ― -b4- And A spot (نُكْتَة) [ upon the face ] of the moon. (K.) ― -b5- And (tropical:) A black she-camel: (IAar, S, K, TA:) accord. to Niftaweyh, شَأْمَةٌ, with; but ISd says, I know not the reason of this, unless it be extr., like الخَأْتَمُ and العَأْلِمُ. (TA.) One says, مَا لَهُ شَامَةٌ وَلَا زَهْرَاآءُ, meaning, (tropical:) He has not a black she-camel nor a white one. (S, K, TA.)