جم

جَمٌّ جم , an inf. n. used as an epithet, (Msb,) Much, or many; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ جَمِيمٌ accord. to the copies of the K, but correctly ↓ جَمَمَ, as in the L. (TA.) You say مَالٌ جَمٌّ (Msb, TA) and ↓ جَمَمَ (TA) Muck property, or many cattle. (Msb.) And it is said in the Kur [lxxxix. 21], وَ يُحِبُّونَ المَالَ حُبًّا جَمًّا (S) And they love property with much love. (A'Obeyd, TA.) Aboo-Khirásh El-Hudhalee says, اـِنْ تَغْفِرِ ا@لّٰلهُمَ تَغْفِرْ جَمَّا (TA) i. c. [ If thou forgive, O God, Thou forgivest ] much sin. (Mgh.) جَمّٰ البُعَاقِ, in a trad. respecting prayer for rain, means Copious, abundant, extensive rain. (TA in art. بعق.) ― -b2- The greater, or main, portion of the ظَهِيرَة [i. e. midday, or mid-day in summer, &c.]: and of water; as also ↓ جَمَّةٌ, (as in some copies of the K,) or ↓ جُمَّةٌ: (so in other copies of the K, and accord. to the TA: [the former app. the right: if it were the latter, the author of the K, accord. to a rule which he has seldom neglected, would have added بِالضَّمِّ; as SM has here done, unless his transcriber have thus written by mistake for بِالفَتْحِ:] or جَمٌّ signifies the water, of a well, that has collected [ after it has been drawn from ]: and ↓ جَمَّةٌ, the place in which the water collects: (S:) and also, this last, the water itself: (TA: [i. e. the supply of water that has collected after drawing: see 4, last sentence but one; and see 10, last sentence:]) the pl. (of جَمَّةٌ S [or of this and of جَمٌّ also]) is جِمَامٌ (S, K) and جُمُومٌ. (K.) ― -b3- بِئْرٌ جَمَّةٌ: see جَمُومٌ. ― -b4- جَاؤُوا جَمًّا غَفِيرًا, and الجَمَّ الغَفِيرَ, &c.; see أَجَمُّ, and art. غفر. ― -b5- جَمٌّ also signifies People of the lowest, or basest, or meanest sort. (T, TA.) -A2- Also The measuring to the head of the measure; [app. an inf. n., of which the verb is ↓ جَمَّ; see 1, last sentence but two; and so ↓ جَمَامٌ and ↓ جُمَامٌ and ↓ جِمَامٌ. (K.)