أَعْلَمُ

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أَعْلَمُ [More, and most, knowing or learned]. Applied to God, [it may often be rendered Supreme in knowledge: or omniscient: but often, in this case,] it means [simply] عَالِمٌ [in the sense of knowing, or cognizant]. [Therefore اَللّٰهُ أَعْلَمُ virtually means, sometimes, God knows best; or knows all things: and sometimes, simply, God knows.]

def.2 Also [Harelipped; i. e.] having a fissure in his upper lip: or in one of its two sides: the camel is said to be اعلم because of the fissure in his upper lip: when the fissure is in the lower lip, the epithet أَفْلَحُ is used: and أَشْرَمُ is used in both of these, and also in other, similar, senses: the fem. of أَعْلَمُ is عَلْمَآءُ: which is likewise applied to a lip (شَفَةٌ).
2 العَلْمَآءُ signifies also The coat of mail: mentioned by Sh, in the book entitled كِتَابُ السِّلَاحِ; but as not heard by him except in a verse of Zuheyr Ibn-Khabbáb [?].

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