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جشم

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

جُشَمٌ ذ Weight, or heaviness; (S, K;) as also ↓ جَشَمٌ (K,) and ↓ جَشْمٌ accord. to the K, but correctly ↓ جُشْمٌ, as in the A and L: (TA:) [and and unpleasing, and a difficult or troublesome or an inconvenient, affair: ] a subst. from تَجَشَّمَ كَذَا وَكَذَا. explained above: see 1. (TA.) You say, أَلْقَى فُلَانٌ عَلَىَّ جُشَمَهُ, (S,) or ↓ جَشَمَهُ, (TA,) Such a one threw upon me his weight, or heavi ness: (S, TA:) to which Z adds, or his difficult, or troublesome, or inconvenient, affair, that he had imposed upon himself, or that was imposed upon him. (TA.) -A2- Also The جَوْف [i. e., the belly; or the chest; &c. ]: or the breast, with the ribs that contain it: (K:) or the breast of a camel: (S, TA:) and the part [ of the skin ] of the camel's breast, and of the rest of the body thereof, with which the [ kind of quiver called ] قرن [i. e. قَرَنٌ] is covered. (TA.) You say, غَتَّهُ بِجُشَمِهِ meaning He threw his breast upon him. (TA.)

Derived headwords

جُشَمٌ
  1. 1.
تَجَشَّمَ كَذَا
أَلْقَى فُلَانٌ عَلَىَّ جُشَمَهُ