عرم

أَعْرَمُ ذ [ More, and most, evil in disposition, or illnatured, &c.]: see an ex. voce عُرَامٌ. -A2- Also [ Having the quality termed عَرَمٌ and عُرْمَةٌ: fem عَرْمَاآءُ: and pl. عُرْمٌ: i. e.] having in it blackness and whiteness: [&c.:] (S, K: *) the eggs of the sand-grouse are عُرْم; (S, K, * TA;) they are meant by this word in a verse of Aboo-Wejzeh Es-Saadee: (TA:) and عَرْمَاآءُ is applied to a serpent; (S;) and means a serpent speckled with black and white; (K, TA;) pl. عُرْمٌ. (TA.) And i. q. أَبْرَشُ: (K, TA:) and, some say, أَبْرَصُ: [the former meaning Speckled: and the latter, and sometimes the former also, leprous: ] fem. عَرْمَاآءُ. (TA.) Applied to a sheep or goat, Having a whiteness in the lip: fem. as above: (K:) [but] it occurs in a trad., applied to a ram, as meaning white, with black specks. (TA.) And Coloured (K, TA) with two colours. (TA.) Hence دَهْرٌ أَعْرَمُ (assumed tropical:) [ Time, or fortune, of two sorts ]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence also,] applied to a collection of small cattle, Consisting of sheep and goats. (S, K.) ― -b3- And Uncircumcized: pl. عُرْمَانٌ, and pl. pl. عَرَامِينُ, (K, TA,) which is mentioned by AA as an epithet applied to men, syn. with قُلْفَانٌ [a pl. of أَقْلَفُ]. (TA.) -A3- Also a sing. of عُرْمَانٌ signifying Tillers, or cultivators, of land, syn. أَكَرَةٌ, [in the CK اُكْرَة (which is a sing.),] (Az, K, TA,) and so is ↓ عَرِيمٌ, in the copies of the K, erroneously written عرم [in some of them عَرْمٌ and in others عَرَمٌ]. (TA.) ― -b2- And أَعْرَمُ and ↓ عَرِيمٌ, the latter more agreeably with analogy, are likewise pls. of عُرْمَانٌ signifying Places of seed-produce. (TA.)