جَاثِمٌ
Root: جثم
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جَاثِمٌ
A bird, and a hare, and sometimes a gazelle, or a [young gazelle such as is termed] خِشْف, and a camel, and a jerboa, and a man, cleaving to the ground: or keeping to his place, not quitting it: or falling upon his breast: as also
جَثُومٌ : [or the latter] and
جَثَّامٌ
doing so much, or often: and
جَثَّامَةٌ
doing so very much, or very often: and the first, also, sitting upon his legs like a bird: pl. جُثُومٌ [and جُثَّمٌ, accord. to Freytag].
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