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زرم

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

زَرِمٌ ذ Anything becoming interrupted, or stopped; stopping, or ceasing; as also ↓ أَزْرَمُ. (TA.) Scanty, or little in quantity, and becoming interrupted, or stopped: so in the phrase رَجُلٌ زَرِمُ الدَّمْعِ: or this signifies [simply] a man whose tears are becoming interrupted, or stopped. (TA.) ― -b2- A she-camel that interrupts her flow of urine by little and little. (AA, TA. [Thus used as a fem. epithet without ة.]) ― -b3- A dog, and a cat, whose dung, or dry dung, has stopped in his rectum. (TA.) ― -b4- Straitened [app. in his means of subsistence ]. (S.) ― -b5- Niggardly, or avaricious. (S.) ― -b6- Low, object, mean, or ignominious, whose near kinsfolk are few; (IAar, K;) as also ↓ زَرِيمٌ. (TA.) ― -b7- One who does not remain fixed, or settled, in any place. (As, K.)

Derived headwords

زَرِمٌ
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رَجُلٌ زَرِمُ الدَّمْعِ