حُسُومٌ

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حُسُومٌ Unluckiness, or inauspiciousness. Some explain it thus in the passage here following.
2 سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالِ وَ ثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا, in the Kur lxix. 7, means He sent it upon them by force, or made it to prevail against them by his power, [seven nights and eight days] consecutively; an expression taken from the repetition of the act of cauterization, i. e. the act of the ; whence this word (حاسم) is applied to anything made consecutive; and حُسُومٌ is its pl.: or حُسُومٌ signifies the making consecutive. and, as an epithet, consecutive, and continuous from first to last: or, accord. to some, الأَيَّامُ الحُسُومٌ means the days that are consecutive with evil especially; and such ISd thinks to be the meaning: or اللَّيَالِى الحُسُومُ means the nights that cut off good, or prosperity, ( الخَيْرَ,) from their people: or حُسُومًا in the Kur means causing them to pass away, come to an end, cease, perish, or come to nought: or it may be an Verbal.Noun, meaning for the purpose of cutting off: or an Verbal.Noun of a verb meant to be understood, as a denotative of state; i. e. حُسُومًا [agreeably with the explanation of Zj]; and this is confirmed by the reading with fet-h [i. e. حَسُومًا, though this is a very rare form of Verbal.Noun]: you say أَيَّامٌ حُسُومٌ, in which case the latter word is an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet, meaning cutting off, or preventing, good, or prosperity; and أَيَّامُ حُسُومٍ, which has a similar meaning.

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