أَجْذَمُ

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أَجْذَمُ Having his arm, or hand, cut off, or amputated: or having lost the endjoints of his fingers: fem. جَذْمَآءُ: pl. جَذْمَى. It is said in a trad., مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ القُرْآنَ ثُمَّ نَسِيَهُ لَقِىَ ٱللّٰهَ يَوْمَ القِيَامَةِ وَهُوَ أَجْذَمُ, i. e., [He who learns the Kur-án and then forgets it shall meet God on the day of resurrection] having his arm, or hand, cut off: or having lost all his limbs, or members: or having his plea cut off; having no tongue with which to speak, nor any plea in his hand: or having his means of access cut off: or with his hand devoid of good and of recompense. And in another trad., كُلُّ خُطْبَةٍ لَيْسَ فِيهَا شَهَادَةٌ كَٱلْيَدِ الجَذْمَآءِ [Every oration from the pulpit in which there is not an acknowledgment of the unity of God and of the mission of Mohammad is like the arm of which the hand is amputated].
2 الكّفُّ الجَذْمَآءُ [The amputated hand;] a name of the star a of Cetus; [i. e.] the star that is in the head of Cetus: so called because it is less extended [from the Pleiades] than that called الكَفَّ الخَضِيبُ. (Kzw. [See الكَفُّ الخَضِيبُ in art.خضب.])
3 نَعْلٌ جَذْمَآءُ A sandal of which the [thong called] قِبَال [which is between two of the toes] is cut, or cut off, or severed.

def.2 See also مَجْذُومٌ.

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