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أَصَمُّ

Root: صم

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أَصَمُّ applied to any animal, Deaf; [or] having a stoppage of the ear, and a heaviness of hearing; fem. صَمَّآءُ: pl. صُمٌّ and صُمَّانٌ. A poet says, أَصَمُّ عَمَّا سَآءَهُ سَمِيعُ a prov., meaning Feigning himself deaf to that which displeases him, i. e. to what is foul, as though he heard it not, but hearing that which pleases him, i. e. what is good; as does the generous man. And similar is the saying, وَلِى أُذْنٌ عَنِ الفَحْشَآءِ صَمَّا [And I have an ear deaf to that which is foul]. [See also Ham p. 636, for another similar ex.] One says likewise, دَعَاهُ دَعْوَةَ الأَصَمِّ He called him [with the call of the deaf, meaning,] with extraordinary force. And ضَرَبَهُ ضَرْبَ الأَصَمِّ He beat him [with the beating of the deaf, meaning,] uninterruptedly and excessively; because the deaf, when he does thus, [not hearing any cry,] imagines that he is falling short of what he should do, and therefore will not leave off. And لَمَعَ بِثَوْبِهِ لَمْعَ الأَصَمِّ He made a sign by waving his garment continually, as does the deaf; as though he heard not the reply. And حَيَّةٌ أَصَمُّ and صَمَّآءُ A serpent that will not accept charming; as though it heard it not; that will not obey the charmer: and [in like manner] the epithet صُمٌّ is applied to scorpions. And رَجُلٌ أَصَمُّ A man whom one does not hope to win over, and who will not be turned back from the object of his desire; as though he were called and would not hear. And دَهْرٌ أَصَمُّ [Inexorable fortune;] as though one complained to it and it would not hear. And الصَّمَّآءُ and دَاهِيَةٌ صَمَّآءُ as expl. voce صَمَامِ, q. v. And فِتْنَةٌ صَمَّآءُ A sedition, or the like, that is severe, or hard to be borne; to the allaying of which there is no way; because of its having gone to the utmost extent. (TA. [See also أَبْكَمُ.]) And أَمْرٌ أَصَمُّ An affair, or event, that is severe, or hard to be borne. And صَمَمٌ is tropically attributed to الحِلْم: a poet, cited by Th, says, قُلْ مَا بَدَا لَكَ مِنْ زُورٍ وَمِنْ كَذِبٍ حِلْمِى أَصَمُّ وَأُذْنِى غَيْرُ صَمَّآءِ [the last word I find written thus, app. for the sake of the rhyme: i. e. Say what occurs to thee, of falsehood and of lying: my forbearance is deaf, i. e. insensible, to it, though my ear is not deaf]. صَمَّآءُ is applied to a قَطَاة [or bird of the species termed قَطًا, and may in this case be rendered Small-eared, or dull-eared, being applied thereto] because of the سَكَك [i. e. smallness &c.] of its ear or because it is deaf when thirsting. And الأَصَمُّ [as though meaning The deafmute] is an epithet applied to رَجَب, the month thus named, which the people of the Time of Ignorance called شَهْرُ ٱللّٰهِ الأَصَمُّ, because the cry of the caller for aid was not heard in it, shouting يَا لَفُلَانٍ and يَا صَبَاحَاهْ, nor the commotion of fight, nor the clash of arms, it being one of the sacred months: thus applied it is tropical, like نَائِمٌ in the phrase لَيْلٌ نَائِمٌ; as though, in it, the man were deaf to the sound of arms: and in like manner it is also called مُنْصِلُ الأَلِّ. (M. [See also الأَصَبُّ, and مُحَرَّمٌ, and شَهْرٌ.])
2 And [as that which is without a cavity is generally nonsonorous,] one says حَجَرٌ أَصَمُّ meaning Hard and solid stone: and صَخْرَةٌ صَمَّآءُ a hard and solid rock: or this latter signifies a rock in which is no crack nor hole: pl. صُمٌّ. And قَنَاةٌ صَمَّآءُ A compact spear-shaft.
3 الصَّمَّآءُ also signifies The earth, or ground. And أَرْضٌ صَمَّآءُ Rugged ground: pl. صُمٌّ.
4 Also [app. The vermiform appendage of the cœcum;] the thin, or slender, extremity of the عفجة: (K: [the last word in this explanation is thus, without any syll. signs, in my MS. copy of the K and in the TA: in the CK, عَفِجَة: but the right reading is evidently عِفَجَة, which is said in the TA, in art. عفج, to be, like أَعْفَاجٌ, a pl. of عَفَجٌ and its dial. vars.: see this last word:] thus called [in my opinion because resembling a meatus auditorius that is closed, and therefore deaf; though said to be so called] because of its hardness.
5 And نَاقَةٌ صَمَّآءُ A fat she-camel: and, or as some say, one that has just conceived, or become pregnant.
6 اِشْتِمَالُ الصَّمَّآءِ, which is forbidden in a trad., is The covering oneself with his garment, like [as is done in the case of] the شِمْلَة of the Arabs of the desert with their [garments called] أَكْسِيَة [pl. of كِسَآء]; i. e. the turning the كِسَآء, from the direction of one's right, upon his left arm and the part between his left shoulderjoint and neck, and then turning it a second time, from behind him, upon his right arm and the part between his right shoulder-joint and neck, so as to cover them both: or the wrapping oneself with the garment without making to it a place from which to put forth the hand: or, as the lawyers explain it, it is the wrapping one's body and arms with one garment, not having upon him another, and then raising it [in the K, as is said in the TA, يَضَعُهُ is erroneously put for يَرْفَعُهُ] on one of its sides, and putting it upon his shoulder, so that his pudendum appears from it: [but] with the Arabs, لِبْسَةُ الصَّمَّآءِ means the covering one's whole body with his garment, and not raising a side from which to put forth his hand: when you say, of a man, اِشْتَمَلَ الصَّمَّآءَ, it is as though you said, اِشْتَمَلَ الشِّمْلَةَ الصَّمَّآءَ; for الصَّمَّآء is a sort of اِشْتِمَال. (S. [See also اِشْتَمَلَ, and الشِّمْلَةُ الصَّمَّآءُ, in art. شمل.])
7 جَذْرٌ أَصَمُّ A surd, or an irrational, root, in arithmetic; which is known only to God, accord. to a saying of 'Áïsheh: opposed to جَذْرٌ نَاطِقٌ. (Mgh in art. جذر.)
8 [فِعْلٌ أَصَمُّ A surd verb is a term sometimes used in grammar, as meaning a triliteral-radical verb of the class commonly called مُضَاعَفٌ of which the second and third radicals are the same letter.]
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