علم

عَلَامَةٌ ذ i. q. سِمَةٌ [ A mark, sign, or token, by which a person or thing is known; a cognizance, or badge; a characteristic; an indication; a symptom ]; (K; [see also مَعْلَمٌ;]) and ↓ عَلَمٌ is syn. therewith [as meaning thus]; (S, Msb, TA;) and so ↓ أُعْلُومَةٌ, (Abu-l-'Omeythil ElAarábee, TA,) as in the saying ↓ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ أُعْلُومَةٌ [ Among the people, or party, is a mark, sign, or token ]; and the pl. of this last is أَعَالِيمُ: (TA:) the pl. of عَلَامَةٌ is عَلَامَاتٌ (Msb) and [the coll. gen. n.] ↓ عَلَامٌ, (K, TA,) differing from عَلَامَةٌ only by the apocopating of the ة. (TA.) ― -b2- See also عَلَمٌ, in two places.