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عم

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

8 اعتمّ ذ and ↓ تعمّم and ↓ استعمّ, (K,) or اعتمّ بِالعِمَامَةِ and بِهَا ↓ تعمّم, (S,) He attired himself with the turban: (S, K:) and ↓ تعمّم is also expl. as meaning he attired himself with the helmet: or, with the garments of war. (TA.) ― -b2- And [hence] one says, اِعْتَمَّتِ الاآكَامُ بِالنَّبَاتِ and ↓ تَعَمَّمَت (assumed tropical:) [ The hills became crowned with plants, or herbage ]. (TA.) And بِهَا رُؤُوسُ الجِبَالِ ↓ تَعَمَّمَتْ (assumed tropical:) [ The heads of the mountains became crowned with its light ]: referring to the sun, when its light has fallen upon the heads of the mountains and become to them like the turban. (Mgh.) ― -b3- And اعتمّ اللَّبَنُ: see 2, last sentence. ― -b4- And اعتمّ النَّبتُ (tropical:) The plant, or herbage, became of its full height, and blossomed, syn. اِكْتَهَلَ, (S, K, TA,) and طَالَ; and became luxuriant, or abundant and dense: (TA:) like اغتمّ. (TA in art. غم.) ― -b5- And اعتمّ الشَّابُّ (assumed tropical:) The youth, or young man, became tall. (S.) ― -b6- And اعتمّ is said of a beast of the bovine kind as meaning (assumed tropical:) He had all his teeth grown. (As, TA. [See عَمَمٌ and عَضْبٌ.])

Derived headwords

اعتمّverb
  1. 1.
اِعْتَمَّتِ الاآكَامُ بِالنَّبَاتِ
بِهَا رُؤُوسُ الجِبَالِ
اعتمّ اللَّبَنُ
اعتمّ النَّبتُ
اعتمّ الشَّابُّ