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ظلم

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

ظَلِيمٌ ذ [as syn. with مَظْلُومٌ in the primary sense of the latter I have not found: but as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates it signifies] (tropical:) Milk that is drunk before its becoming thick and its butter's coming forth or being extracted; (S, * M;) as also ↓ ظَلِيمَةٌ, (T, S, M,) and ↓ مَظْلُومٌ. (T, S.) ― -b2- And (assumed tropical:) A place that is ↓ مَظْلُوم [i. e. dug where it should not be dug ]: (M, TA:) used in this sense by a poet describing a person slain in a desert, for whom a grave was dug in a place not proper for digging [it]. (M.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) The earth of land that is ↓ مَظْلُومَة (S, K, TA) i. e. dug, (TA,) or dug for the first time. (S.) And (assumed tropical:) The earth of the لَحْد [or lateral hollow ] of a grave; which is put back, over it, after the burial of the dead therein. (T, TA.) -A2- Also The male ostrich: (T, S, M, K:) said (by IDrd, TA) to be so called because he makes a place for the laying and hatching of the eggs (يُدَحِّى, inf. n. تَدْحِيَةٌ,) where the doing so is not proper: (M, TA:) or, accord. to Er-Rághib and others, because he is believed to be deaf: (TA:) pl. ظِلْمَانٌ (T, M, K) and ظُلْمَانٌ (M, K) and أَظْلِمَةٌ, (T, M,) which last is a pl. of pauc. (T.) ― -b2- And الظَّلِيمَانِ is an appellation of Two stars; (M, K, * TA;) the two stars of القَوْس [or Sagittarius ] that are on the northern curved end of the bow [i. e. λ and μ , above the nine stars called النَّعَائِم, or “ the ostriches ”]. (Kzw in his descr. of Sagittarius.) And الظَّلِيمُ is the name of The bright star [ α ] at the end of النَّهْر [i. e. Eridanus ]: and A star upon the mouth of الحُوت [i. e. Piscis Australis ] (Kzw in his descr. of Eridanus.) [It seems to be implied in the K that الظَّلِيمُ is the name of two stars; or it may be there meant that each of two stars is thus called. Freytag represents the sing. as “ a name of stars, ” and the dual also as “ a name of stars; ” referring, in relation to the former, to Ideler's “ Untersuch, ” pp. 201, 228, and 233; and in relation to the latter, to the same work, pp. 106 and 184.]

Derived headwords

ظَلِيمٌ
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