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غلم

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

غَلِمٌ ذ , (Msb, K, TA,) and ↓ غِلِّيمٌ, (S, K, TA,) but this has an intensive signification, (S, TA,) and ↓ مِغْلِيمٌ, (K, TA,) [but this also has an intensive signification,] Excited by lust, or appetence: (TA:) or overcome thereby: (K, TA:) or vehemently affected with lust, or carnal desire (Msb:) [or the first may generally be better rendered in a state of excitement, or of vehement excitement, by lust and the second and third, lustful, or vehemently lustful: ] the epithets applied to a female are غَلِمَةٌ and ↓ مُغْتَلِمَةٌ and ↓ غِلِّيمَةٌ and ↓ غِلِّيمٌ, (K, TA,) this last being applied to a male and to a female, (Az, TA,) and [particularly] applied to a he-camel, (TA,) and ↓ مغْليمَةٌ and ↓ مِغْلِيمٌ, (K, TA,) the last [which is omitted in the CK] being, like غِلِّيمٌ, applied to a male and to a female: (Az, TA:) and ↓ غَيْلَمٌ likewise is applied to a girl, or young woman. in the sense of مُغْتَلِمَةٌ. (S, K.) It is said in a trad., خَيْرُالنِّسَاآءِ الغَلِمَةُ عَلَى زَوْجِهَا [ The best of women is the appetent to her husband ]. (TA.)

Derived headwords

غَلِمٌ
  1. 1.
الغَلِمَةُ عَلَى زَوْجِهَا