بهم

مُبْهَمٌ مبهم , applied to a door, Closed, or locked, (JK, K,) so that one cannot find the way to open it: (JK, TA:) and stopped up: (TA:) or having a lock upon it, with which it is fastened. (Mgh.) ― -b2- A wall in which is no door. (TA.) ― -b3- A chest having no lock [ by means of which it may be opened ]. (IAmb, TA.) ― -b4- I. q. مُصْمَتٌ [as meaning Solid; not hollow; in the CK أَصْمَتُ, which signifies the same]; as also ↓ أَبْهَمُ: (K:) having no fissure in it: and ↓ the latter, applied to a heart is said to mean (assumed tropical:) impenetrable by admonition. (TA.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) A thing, or an affair, made to be dubious, confused, or vague; (JK;) [ such that there is no way, or manner, of knowing it; (see the verb;)] or such that one knows not the way, or manner, in which it should be engaged in, done, executed, or performed: (JK, S, Mgh, TA:) (assumed tropical:) speech, or language, [ that is dubious, confused, or vague, ] such that there is no way, or manner, of knowing it: (Mgh, TA:) applied to a road, (assumed tropical:) unapparent, or hardly apparent: (TA:) and, applied to the ordinance respecting the making up for the days in which one has broken a fast, [and to many other cases,] (assumed tropical:) undefined; in this instance meaning, as to whether the days may be interrupted, or whether they must be consecutive. (Mgh.) [Hence,] مُبْهَمَاتٌ (assumed tropical:) Difficult things, or affairs, such that one cannot find the way to perform them. (TA.) And الأَسْمَاآءُ المُبْهَمَةُ, so termed by the grammarians, (assumed tropical:) The nouns of indication, (S, K,) such as هٰذَا and هٰؤُلَاآءِ and ذَاكَ and أُولَائِكَ: (S:) accord. to Az, الحُرُوفُ المُبْهَمَةُ signifies (assumed tropical:) the particles which have no derivatives, and of which the roots are not known, as الَّذِى and مَا and مَنْ and عَنْ and the like. (TA.) ― -b6- Applied to a vow, and to [certain ordinances respecting] marriage and divorce and emancipation, (assumed tropical:) From which there is no getting out, or extricating of oneself; as though they were closed doors with locks upon them: (Mgh:) and, applied to prohibited things, (assumed tropical:) not allowable in any manner, (T, K, TA,) nor for any cause; (T, TA;) or prohibited unconditionally; (Mgh;) as the prohibition of [ the marriage with ] the mother, and the sister, (T, Mgh, * K, TA,) and the like: (T, TA:) such a woman is said to be مُبْهَمَةٌ عَلَى الرَّجُلِ (assumed tropical:) [ absolutely prohibited to the man; as though she were closed against him, or inaccessible to him ]. (Msb. [But in this last work it seems to be مثبْهِمَةٌ, which is not agreeable with common usage.]) In the copies of the K, بُهْمٌ and بُهُمٌ are given as pls. of this word: but it seems that there is an omission or a misplacement in the passage; for these are said to be pls. of بَهِيمٌ, as shown above. (TA.) ― -b7- (assumed tropical:) In a state of swooning or insensibility, speechless, and without discrimination; in consequence of a blow [&c.]. (TA.) ― -b8- See also بَهِيمٌ.