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حُلْمٌ

Root: حلم

Full Definition

حُلْمٌ an Verbal.Noun of حَلَمَ; as also حُلُمٌ .
2 And A dream, or vision in sleep; as also حُلُمٌ : accord. to most of the lexicologists, as well as F, syn. with رُؤْيَا: or it is specially such as is evil; and رؤيا is the contr.: this is corroborated by the trad., الرُّؤْيَا مِنَ ٱللّٰهِ وَالحُلْمُ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ [The رؤيا is from God, and the حلم is from the Devil]: and by the phrase, in the Kur [xii. 44 and xxi. 5], أَضْغَاثُ أَحْلَامٍ [The confused circumstances of dreams, or of evil dreams]: but each is used in the place of the other: أَحْلَامٌ is the pl.
3 أَحْلَامُ نَائِمٍ [lit. The dreams of a sleeper;] a kind of thick cloths, or garments, striped, of the people of El-Medeeneh.
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