حطم

حُطَمَةٌ حطم حطمه حطمة A vehement fire, (K,) that breaks in pieces everything that is cast into it. (TA.) Hence, (S, TA,) الحُطَمَةُ a name of Hell, (K,) or of Hell-fire: (S, K:) or, as some say, the fourth stage of Hell: (Har. p. 347:) or a gate of Hell. (K.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A man who eats much; (S, TA;) as also ↓ حُطَمٌ; who breaks everything in eating: (Har p. 580:) and the latter, and ↓ حُطُمٌ, an insatiable man. (TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) A large number of camels, (T, S, K,) and of sheep or goats: (T, K:) because they break, or crush, (T, S, TA,) the herbage, (T, TA,) or everything, (S, TA,) or the ground with their feet or hoofs, and the trees and herbs in eating them. (TA.) ― -b4- Also, and ↓ حُطَمٌ, (S, K,) (tropical:) A pastor having little mercy upon the cattle; (S, TA;) or who acts injuriously towards them; (K, TA;) causing them to crush, or bruise, one another; (S, K, TA;) or as though he crushed, or bruised, them by his vehement driving: (A, TA:) or the former signifies a pastor who does not allow his beasts to avail themselves of the plentiful pasturages, nor let them disperse themselves in the pasturage: and ↓ the latter, one who is ungentle, or rough; as though he broke, or crushed, or bruised, them when driving them or pasturing them: and ↓ سَوَّاقٌ حُطَمٌ signifies a man who drives beasts vehemently, crushing them, or bruising them, by reason of his vehement driving; but it is used by way of comparison, as meaning (tropical:) cunning and versatile. (TA.) Hence, شَرُّ الرِّعَاآءِ الحُطَمَةُ [ The worst of pastors is the ungentle, who causes the beasts to crush, or bruise, one another ]: (S, K:) accord. to the S, a prov.: accord. to Sgh and the K, not a prov., but a trad.: but many of the trads. are reckoned among provs.: it is applied to him who governs, or manages, ill. (MF, TA.) Hence also what is related in a trad. of 'Alee, that Kureysh, when they saw him in war, or battle, used to say, اِحْذَرُوا الحُطَمَ ↓ اِحْذَرُوا الحُطَمَ [ Beware ye of the rough one! Beware ye of the rough one! ]. (TA.)