حلم

حُلْمٌ حلم an inf. n. of حَلَمَ; as also ↓ حُلُمٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- And A dream, or vision in sleep; (S, K;) as also ↓ حُلُمٌ: (K:) accord. to most of the lexicologists, as well as F, syn. with رُؤْيَا: or it is specially such as is evil; and رؤيا is the contr.: this is corroborated by the trad., الرُّؤْيَا مِنَ ا@للّٰهِ وَالحُلْمُ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ [ The رؤيا is from God, and the حلم is from the Devil ]: (MF:) and by the phrase, in the Kur [xii. 44 and xxi. 5], أَضْغَاثُ أَحْلَامٍ [ The confused circumstances of dreams, or of evil dreams ]: but each is used in the place of the other: (TA:) أَحْلَامٌ is the pl. (K.) ― -b3- أَحْلَامُ نَائِمٍ [lit. The dreams of a sleeper; ] a kind of thick cloths, or garments, (IKh, Z, TA,) striped, of the people of El-Medeeneh. (Z, TA.)