Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَلِمَ

Root: الم

Form: 1

Full Definition

أَلِمَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun أَلَمٌ, It, or he, was in pain; had, or suffered, pain; ached. أَلِمَ بَطْنَهُ [He was in pain, or had pain, in his belly] and أَلِمْتَ بَطْنَكَ [thou wast in pain, or hadst pain, in thy belly] or رَأْسَكَ [in thy head] are like سَفِهَ رَأْيَهُ and رَشِدْتَ أَمْرَكَ and وَجِعْتَ رَأْسَكَ; the noun being in the accus. case accord. to Ks as an explicative, though explicatives are [by rule] indeterminate, as in قَرِرْتُ بِهِ عَيْنًا and ضَقْتُ بِهِ ذَرْعًا; the regular form being [أَلِمَ بَطْنُهُ and] أَلِمَ بَطْنُكَ, as the verb is intrans.


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