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عم

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

عُمُمٌ ذ Completeness of body [or bodily growth ], and of wealth, and of youthful vigour, or of the period of youthfulness: so in the phrase اِسْتَوَى عَلَى عُمُمِهِ, (S, K,) occurring in a trad. of 'Orweh Ibn-Ez-Zubeyr, on his mentioning Uheyhah Ibn-El-Juláh and the saying of his maternal uncles respecting him, كُنَّا أَهْلَ ثُمِّهِ وَرُمِّهِ حَتَّى ا@سْتَوَى عَلَى عُمُمِهِ [i. e. We were the masters of the meaner and the better articles of his property until he attained to man's estate, or to his completeness of bodily growth, &c.]; (S;) [or] the meaning is, his completeness of stature and of bones and of limbs: (TA:) also pronounced with teshdeed [or idghám, i. e. ↓ عُمِّهِ], for the sake of conformity [with ثُمِّهِ and رُمِّهِ]; (S, TA;) and by some, ↓ عَمَمِهِ. (TA.) ― -b2- It is also pl. of عَمِيمٌ [q. v.]. (S, K.)

Derived headwords

عُمُمٌ
  1. 1.
عَلَى عُمُمِهِ
كُنَّا أَهْلَ ثُمِّهِ وَرُمِّهِ حَتَّى ا@سْتَوَى