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حَلِيمٌ

Root: حلم

Full Definition

حَلِيمٌ Having حِلْم [i. e. forbearance, or clemency, &c.; forbearing, or clement, &c.]: pl. حُلَمَآءُ and أَحْلَامٌ. In the Kur xi. 89, it is said to be used by way of scoffing [or irony]. الحَلِيمُ is one of the names of God; meaning [The Forbearing, or Clement, &c.; or] He Whom the disobedience of the disobedient does not flurry, nor anger against them disquiet, but Who has appointed to everything a term to which it must finally come.
2 حَلِيمَةٌ مُغْتَاظَةٌ [lit. Calm, angry; or the like; because what it contains is sometimes still and sometimes boiling;] is an appellation given to a stone cooking-pot. (A and TA in art. غيظ.)

def.2 A fat camel: or a camel becoming fat. ISd says, I know not any unaugmented verb belonging to it in this sense.

def.3 And Coming fat.

def.4 See also حَلِمٌ.


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