Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

جَهُمَ

Root: جهم

Form: 1

Full Definition

جَهُمَI , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun جُهُومَةٌ and جَهَامَةٌ, He became frowning, or contracted, in face; or grinning in face, with a frowning, or contraction, or a stern, an austere, or a morose, look: or he was, or became, coarse, or rough, and contracted, and ugly, in face.
2 Also, said of the pubes, It was coarse, rough, or big.

def.2 جَهَمَهُ, and جَهِمَهُ, Present.T ـَ in both instances; and تجهّمهُ , and تجهّم لَهُ; He grinned, frowning, or looking sternly, austerely, or morosely, in his face: or he met him, or regarded him, with a displeasing, frowning, or grinning and frowning, face: or تجهّم signifies he showed a sour, a crabbed, or an austere, face. (TK in art. عبس.) A poet says, وَبَلْدَةٍ زَجَرْتُ فِيهَا عَيْهَلًا رَسُومَا i. e. [Many a region] that exhibits to the impotent that which he dislikes, [or that frowns upon the weak, or impotent, I have chidden therein a strong she-camel that leaves the marks of her footsteps upon the ground.] You say also, الدَّهْرُ الكِرَامَ [Fortune frowns upon the generous]. And أَمَلِى [My object of hope frowned upon me] is said when one has not attained his object of hope.


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