Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حِمْيَةٌ

Root: حمى

Full Definition

حِمْيَةٌ : see the next preceding paragraph.

def.2 Also an Verbal.Noun of حَمَى المَكَانَ [q. v.]: and of حَمَيْتُ المَرِيضَ [q. v.].

def.3 Also The practising abstinence; (PS in art. ازم;) [especially the abstaining from things injurious in a case of sickness;] the abstaining, or desisting, from eating.


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