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تُومَةٌ

Root: توم

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تُومَةٌ sing. of تُوَمٌ [in the CK, erroneously, تُؤَمٌ] and [n. un.] of تُومٌ ; One of the things called تُومُ; i. e. a قُرْط [as meaning a silver bead fashioned like a pearl]: or a قُرْط [as meaning an earring] in which is a large حَبَّة [or bead]: or a thing, or حَبَّة [i. e. bead], made of silver, like a pearl, or like a large pearl, of a round form, which a girl puts in her ear.
2 And hence, as being likened to this, A large pearl: or a pearl. And أُمُّ تُومَةَ The pearl-shell: a proper name, and therefore imperfectly decl.
3 And An ostrich's egg: pl. as above: ostriches' eggs are called تُومٌ as being likened to pearls, which are thus called: they are so called by Dhu-r-Rummeh, where he says, وَحَتَّى أَتَى يَوْمٌ يَكَادٌ مِنَ اللَّظَى بِهِ التُّومُ فِى أُفحُوصِهِ يَتَصَيَّحُ [And until there came a day in which, by reason of the flaming heat, the ostriches' eggs, in the place where they were deposited in the sand, almost dried up.]
4 التُّومَتَانِ is an appellation applied to two kaseedehs of Jereer, in praise of' Abd-El-'Azeez Ibn-Marwán.
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