بَرِيمٌ
Root: برم
Full Definition
2 Anything in which are two colours mixed together: and any two things mixed together and combined.
3 An amulet that is hung upon a boy; because of the colours therein.
4 A garment, or piece of cloth, in which are silk (قَزّ) and flax.
5 Also, or the dual thereof, which latter is the right, The liver and hump [of a camel], cut lengthwise, and tied round with a string or thread, or some other thing, in some copies of the S, or with a gut; said to be thus called because of the whiteness of the hump and the blackness of the liver. So in the phrase, اِشْوِ لَنَا مِنْ بَرِيَمَيْهَا [Roast thou for us some of her liver and hump, cut lengthwise, &c.]. (AO, T, S: [in copies of the K, بَرِيمِهَا: and in the CK, بَرِيمَتِهَا.])
6 Also, the sing., Water mixed with other [water &c.].
7 Tears mixed with [the collyrium termed] إِثْمِد; because having two colours.
8 A mixed company of people.
9 An army; because comprising a mixed multitude of men; or because of the colours of the banners of the tribes therein: or an army in which is a mixed multitude of men: or an army having two colours: and the dual, two armies, Arabs and foreigners.
10 A number of sheep and goats together.
11 The light of the sun with the remains of the blackness of night: or the dawn; because of its combining the blackness of night and the whiteness of day: or, as some say, بَرِيمٌ الصُّبْحِ means the tint (خَيْط [q. v.]) of the dawn that is mixed with two colours.
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