عجم

أَعْجَمُ ذ One having an impotence, or an impediment, or a difficulty, in speech, or utterance, (S, Msb,) though he may be clear, perspicuous, distinct, chaste, or correct, in speaking a foreign language; (S;) and [ barbarous, or vitious therein; i. e.] not clear, perspicuous, distinct, chaste, or correct, therein; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) meaning, in speaking Arabic, (S, Mgh, Msb, * K, *) though he may be an Arab; (S, Mgh, Msb;) and ↓ أَعْجَمِىٌّ signifies the same, (Mgh, Msb, K,) and therefore, if applied to an Arab, it does not imply reproach; (Msb; [but it is said in the Mgh that this demands consideration;]) or this latter epithet is applied to a tongue, or speech, and to a book, or writing, but not to a man unless it be syn. with the former epithet: (S:) the fem. of the former is عَجْمَاآءُ: (S, Mgh, Msb:) and the dual masc. أَعْجَمَانِ (S) and fem. عَجْمَاوَانِ; (Har p. 226;) and the pl. masc. أَعْجَمُونَ (S, Msb, TA) and أَعَاجِمُ (S, TA) and عُجْمَانٌ: (TA:) and the pl. of ↓ أَعْجَمِىٌّ is أَعْجَمِيُّونَ. (Msb.) See also عَجَمٌ, first sentence, in two places. ― -b2- Also Dumb; speechless; destitute of the faculty of speech; (K, TA:) unable to speak; and so ↓ مُسْتَعْجِمٌ: (S, TA:) fem. of the former as above. (TA.) ― -b3- Hence, (S,) by predominance of its application, (Mgh,) عَجْمَاآءُ signifies A beast, or brute; syn. بَهِيمَةٌ; (S, Mgh, K;) and so ↓ مُسْتَعْجِمٌ [or the fem. of this]: (TA:) pl. of the former in this sense, as a subst., عَجْمَاوَاتٌ: (Har p. 13:) [and] عَجْمَاآءُ is applied [also] as an epithet to a beast, or brute, (بهيمة,) for the like reason. (Msb.) It is said in a trad., جُرْحُ العَجْمَاآءِ جُبَارٌ [expl. in art. جبر]. (S, Mgh.) ― -b4- [Hence also] فَحْلٌ أَعْجَمُ signifies A stallion [ camel ] that brays in a شِقْشِقَة [or faucial bag ] to which there is no perforation, so that the sound does not issue from it: and they approve of the sending such among the شَوْل [or she-camels that have passed seven or eight months since the period of their bringing forth] because he usually begets females. (TA.) ― -b5- (tropical:) The prayer of the daytime is termed عَجْمَاآءُ because the reciting [of the Kur-án] therein is inaudible; (S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA;) i. e. the prayer of noon and of afternoon; (TA;) and these two together are termed العَجْمَاوَانِ. (Har p. 226.) ― -b6- مَوْجٌ أَعْجَمُ means (tropical:) Waves that do not sprinkle their water, and of which no sound is heard. (S, K.) ― -b7- And عَجْمَاآءُ [or رَمْلَةٌ عَجْمَاآءُ?] (assumed tropical:) A tract of sand in which are no trees. (IAar, K.)