غلم

غُلَامٌ ذ [ A young man, youth, boy, or male child: ] one whose mustache is growing forth or has grown forth: (Mgh, K:) or one from the time of his birth until he attains to the period termed شَبَاب [meaning young manhood (see غُلُومَةٌ)]: (K:) or i. q. اِبْنٌ صَغِيرٌ [meaning a son that has not attained to puberty ]: (Msb:) and also applied to (tropical:) such as is termed كَهْل [i. e. one of middle age, or between that age and the period when his hair has become intermixed with hoariness ]: (IAar, Msb, K:) Az states his having heard the Arabs call thus the new-born child and also the كَهْل: (Msb:) the female is [sometimes] termed غُلَامَةٌ; (S, K;) [i. e.] غُلَامَةٌ occurs in poetry, applied to a جَارِيَة: (Msb:) the pl. of غُلَامٌ is غِلْمَةٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) a pl. of pauc., (Msb,) and أَغْلِمَةٌ, (K,) [also a pl. of pauc.,] or of these two pls. they used only the former, (S, IAth, TA,) or some of them did so, (M, TA,) and غِلْمَانٌ, (S, Mgh, K,) [a pl. of mult.,] or this is pl. of غِلْمَةٌ: (Msb:) the dim. of غُلَامٌ is ↓ غُلَيِّمٌ; (TA;) and that of غِلْمَةٌ is ↓ أُغَيْلِمَةٌ, as if it were the dim. of أَغْلِمَةٌ though [it has been said that] they did not use this last word; but some of them said ↓ غُلَيْمَةٌ, agreeably with analogy. (S, TA.) ― -b2- It is also used as meaning (tropical:) A male slave; like as جَارِيَةٌ is used as meaning “ a female slave: ” ― -b3- and as meaning (tropical:) A hireling [or servant ]. (Mgh.)