أَعْصَمُ
Root: عصم
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أَعْصَمُ
A gazelle, and a mountain-goat, having in his arms, or in one of them, a whiteness, the rest of him being red or black: or a goat white in the fore legs, or in the fore leg: fem. عَصْمَآءُ: and pl. عُصْمٌ.
2 And A horse white in the fore leg: or having a whiteness in one of his fore legs, above the pastern: or having a whiteness in his fore shanks: or having a whiteness in one of his fore legs, but not in his hind legs, little or much; in which case he is termed أَعْصَمُ اليُمْنَى or اليُسْرَى [white in respect of the right fore leg or of the left]: when the whiteness is in both of his fore legs, he is termed أَعْصَمُ اليَدَيْنِ [white in respect of the two fore legs]; unless having a blaze in his face, in which case he is termed مُحَجَّلٌ, not أَعْصَمُ; though a blaze in his face does not cause him to be termed مُحَجَّلٌ when the whiteness is in one fore leg.
3 And A crow having a white feather in its wing; i. e., in one of its wings: because the wing of the bird corresponds to the fore leg [of the beast]: or white in the wings: or white in the legs: or red (أَحْمَر) in the legs and beak; and this is said by Az to be the correct explanation; [but] he adds that the Arabs term بَيَاض [i. e. whiteness] حَمْرَة [which properly signifies redness], saying of a woman of white complexion that she is حَمْرَآء: [so that by the last of the foregoing explanations of أَعْصَمُ applied to a crow is app. meant white in the legs and beak:] the Prophet is said to have explained this epithet, thus applied, as meaning of which one of the legs is white: some say that الغُرَابُ الأَعْصَمُ is like الأَبْلَقُ العَقُوقُ and بَيْضُ الأَنوقِ, applied to anything that is rarely found: it occurs in a number of trads.; and a righteous woman is likened thereto.
2 And A horse white in the fore leg: or having a whiteness in one of his fore legs, above the pastern: or having a whiteness in his fore shanks: or having a whiteness in one of his fore legs, but not in his hind legs, little or much; in which case he is termed أَعْصَمُ اليُمْنَى or اليُسْرَى [white in respect of the right fore leg or of the left]: when the whiteness is in both of his fore legs, he is termed أَعْصَمُ اليَدَيْنِ [white in respect of the two fore legs]; unless having a blaze in his face, in which case he is termed مُحَجَّلٌ, not أَعْصَمُ; though a blaze in his face does not cause him to be termed مُحَجَّلٌ when the whiteness is in one fore leg.
3 And A crow having a white feather in its wing; i. e., in one of its wings: because the wing of the bird corresponds to the fore leg [of the beast]: or white in the wings: or white in the legs: or red (أَحْمَر) in the legs and beak; and this is said by Az to be the correct explanation; [but] he adds that the Arabs term بَيَاض [i. e. whiteness] حَمْرَة [which properly signifies redness], saying of a woman of white complexion that she is حَمْرَآء: [so that by the last of the foregoing explanations of أَعْصَمُ applied to a crow is app. meant white in the legs and beak:] the Prophet is said to have explained this epithet, thus applied, as meaning of which one of the legs is white: some say that الغُرَابُ الأَعْصَمُ is like الأَبْلَقُ العَقُوقُ and بَيْضُ الأَنوقِ, applied to anything that is rarely found: it occurs in a number of trads.; and a righteous woman is likened thereto.
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