أَبْكَمٌ

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أَبْكَمٌ and بَكِيمٌ i. q. أَخْرَسُ [meaning Dumb, either by natural conformation or from inability to find words to express what he would say]: or not having understanding to reply, nor ability to frame speech well, though possessing the faculty of speech; whereas اخرس signifies speechless, or destitute of the faculty of speech, by natural conformation, like the beast that lacks the faculty of articulation; unable to find words to express what he would say; unable to reply: or dumb by natural conformation: fem. بَكْمَآءُ: pl. بُكْمٌ and بُكْمَانٌ, both pls. of أَبْكَمُ, like as صُمٌّ and صُمَّانٌ are pls. of أَصَمُّ; and the pl. of بَكِيمٌ is أَبْكَامٌ. In the Kur ii. 166, بُكْمٌ means persons in the condition of him who has been born dumb: or, as some say, deprived of their intellects: or ignorant and ignoble; because not profiting much by the faculty of speech, so that they are as though they had been deprived of it. The phrase فِتْنَةٌ صَمَّآءُ بَكْمَآءُ عَمْيَآءُ, occurring in a trad., [lit.] meaning [A sedition, or the like,] deaf, dumb, blind, applies to a فتنة that does not withdraw, or become removed: or, as some say, to one which, by reason of the confusion attending it, and the perishing of the sound and the sick therein, is likened to the deaf and dumb and blind who does not pursue the right course to a thing, but goes at random like the weak-sighted she-camel.

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