أَزَمَ
Root: ازم
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 [And hence,] أَزَمَ عَلَيْنَا, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun أَزْمٌ and أُزُومٌ, said of a time, or a year, It was, or became, distressful, or afflictive, to us, [as though it bit us,] by drought, dearth, or scarcity; and scant in its good things; as also أَزِمَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun أَزَمٌ. And أَصَابَتْهُمْ سَنَةٌ أَزَمَتْهُمْ, Verbal.Noun أَزْمٌ, A year, or year of dearth or drought or sterility, befell them, which extirpated them: or, accord. to Sh, the verb in this sense is only with و. (TA. [See art. ارم.])
3 [Hence also,] أَزَمَ بِهِ, Verbal.Noun أَزْمٌ, He clave to him, namely, his companion; and to it, namely, a place. And أَزَمَ عَلَيْهِ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun أَزْمٌ, He kept, attended, or applied himself, constantly, perseveringly, or assiduously, to it; he clave to it. And أَزَمَ بِضَيْعَتِهِ, or لَهَا, and عَلَيْها, Verbal.Noun أُزُومٌ, He kept, attended, or applied himself, constantly, perseveringly, or assiduously, to his ضيعة [or land, &c.].
4 أَزَمَ, Verbal.Noun أَزْمٌ, also signifies He held his teeth together, one upon another: [and he compressed, or put together, his lips: (see آزِمٌ:)] and he closed, or locked, a door. It is said in a trad., السِّوَاكُ تَسْتَعْمِلُهُ عِنْدَ تَغَيُّرِ الفَمِ مِنَ الأَزْمِ The stick for cleaning the teeth, thou shalt use it on the occasion of the mouth's becoming altered in odour from the holding of the teeth together.
5 [And hence,] أَزَمَ, Verbal.Noun أَزْمٌ, He held, refrained, or abstained, عَنِ الشَّىْءِ from the thing: and he held, refrained, or abstained, from desiring much: and from food and drink; as also أَزِمَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun أَزَمٌ: and from speech; like as does the faster from food: and hence, or from the next preceding signification, حِمْيَةٌ [meaning as explained in what follows] is termed أَزْمٌ: but accord. to the relation commonly known, of a trad. in which أَزَمَ is said to occur in the last of the senses explained above, the word is أَرَمَّ, with ر and with teshdeed in the case of the م. It is related in a trad., that 'Omar having asked El-Hárith Ibn-Keledeh, the طَبِيب of the Arabs, “What is the [best] remedy?” or having asked him respecting [the best] medical, or curative, treatment, the latter said, الأَزْمُ, meaning الحِمْيَةُ; both these words here meaning The practising abstinence; or the abstaining, or desisting, from eating: or, in this instance, الأَزْمُ signifies the not putting in food upon food: and the being silent: and it signifies also strength.
6 أَزَمَ الشَّىْءُ The thing became contracted; became drawn together, or compressed; as also أَزِمَ, Present.T ـَ.
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