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سمن

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

سَمِينٌ ذ Fat, or plump; (S, M, L, K; *) contr. of مُهْزُولٌ; (S, L;) or having much flesh and fat; (Msb;) and ↓ سَامِنٌ signifies the same: (M, L, K:) fem. with ة: (M, L, Msb:) [see سَاحّق:] pl. (of the first, and of its fem., Msb) سِمَانٌ, (Sb, M, L, Msb, K,) used instead of سُمَنَاآءُ, which they did not say: (Sb, M, L:) accord. to Lh, (M, L,) ↓ مُسْمِنٌ signifies fat, or plump, by nature; (M, L, K;) applied to a man: and some say اِمْرَأَةٌ ↓ مُسمِنَةٌ meaning a woman fat, or plump, syn. سَمِينَةٌ, (M, L,) or ↓ امرأة مُسْمَنَةٌ, like مُكْرَمَةٌ [in measure], meaning [ a woman rendered fat, or plump, ] by nature; (K;) and بِالأَدْوِيَةِ ↓ مُسَمَّنَةٌ [ rendered fat, or plump, by medicines ]; (M, L, K;) and woe, on the day of resurrection, by reason of languor in the bones, is denounced in a trad. against women who make use of medicine to render themselves thus. (L.) ― -b2- [Hence,] أَرْضٌ سَمِينَةٌ (assumed tropical:) [ Fat land; i. e.] land of good soil, with few stones, strong to foster plants or herbage: (M, L:) or land consisting of soil in which is no stone. (K.) ― -b3- And كَلَامٌ سَمِينٌ (assumed tropical:) Chaste, eloquent, or excellent, language. (L in art. قصد.) ― -b4- See also مَسْمُونٌ.

Derived headwords

سَمِينٌ
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كَلَامٌ سَمِينٌ