عظم

مُعْظَمٌ ذ The greater, main, [ principal, chief, ] or most, part or portion, [or body, or aggregate, ] (S, Msb, K,) of a thing [or of things], (S, Msb,) or of an affair, or event; (K;) [the main, gross, mass, or bulk, of a thing or of things;] as also ↓ عُظْمٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ عَظْمٌ: (Lh, K:) or ↓ عُظْمٌ, it is said, [as also مُعْظَمٌ in many cases,] signifies the middle, or midst, of a thing. (TA.) It is said in a trad. of Ibn-Seereen, مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ ↓ جَلَسْتُ اـِلَى مَجْلِسٍ فِيهِ عُظْمٌ, meaning [ I sat by an assembly in which was ] a numerous company of the Ansár. (TA.) [مُعْظَمُ الحَرْبِ, and المَوْتِ, signify The thick, or thickest, or the main stress or struggle, of the fight or battle, and of death in battle: see رَحًى (near the end of the paragraph) in art. رحو and رحى.] ― -b2- [And accord. to Freytag, it occurs in the Deewan of the Hudhalees as signifying The harder parts of the body, as the neck, the thigh, &c.] ― -b3- See also عَظِيمٌ: ― -b4- and عَظِيمَةٌ.