رَسَمَ
Root: رسم
Form: 1
Full Definition
رَسَمَI
, or الدِّيَارَ, [Present.T
ـُ accord. to a rule of the K,] Verbal.Noun رَسْمٌ, It rased the house or dwelling, or the houses or dwellings, leaving a relic, or relics, thereof cleaving to the ground. In the saying of El-Hotei-ah,
2 [رَسَمَ often signifies He marked, or stamped: and he drew, traced, traced out, sketched, sketched out, or planned: and he delineated, or described.] You say, رَسَمَ الطَّعَامَ He stamped, or sealed, the corn; (TA in art. رشم;) as also رَشَمَهُ. (S, K, TA, all in that art. [See رَوْسَمٌ.]) And رَسَمْتُ البِنَآءَ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, I marked out the building. And رَسَمَ كِتَابًا وَلَمْ يَحْشُهُ [He sketched out a book and did not fill it up]. (Mz 1st نوع.) And رَسَمْتُ الكِتَابَ I wrote the book, or letter, or writing. And رَسَمَ عَلَى كَذَا He wrote upon such a thing; and رَشَمَ is a dial. var. thereof.
3 [Hence,] رَسَمَ لَهُ كَذَا, or بِكَذَا,
4 رَسَمَتْ said of a she-camel, Present.T ـُ or ـِ not ـُ Verbal.Noun رَسِيمٌ, She made marks upon the ground by the vehemence of her tread.
5 And رَسَمَ said of a camel, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun رَسِيمٌ, with which مِرْسَمٌ is syn., He went a certain pace, exceeding that which is termed ذَمِيل [Verbal.Noun of ذَمَلَ, q. v.]: one should not say of a camel أَرْسَمَ, for this latter verb is trans.
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7 And رَسَمَ فِى الأَرْضِ, Verbal.Noun رَسْمٌ, He disappeared in the land, or country: and [hence], used metonymically,
[Is it in consequence of autumn-rain's and springrain's rasing of a dwelling so as to leave only a relic thereof cleaving to the ground, that there is to thine eyes a distilling of the water of the tearchannels?], مربع and مصيف are in the nom. case because of the Verbal.Noun, i.e. رسم. (M, TA. [But in the latter, مَصِيفُ: and in a copy of the former, مَرْبَعٌ and مَصِيفُ, both of which are evidently wrong.])أَمِنْ رَسْمِ دَارٍ مُرْبِعٌ وَمُصِيفُ لِعَيْنَيْكَ مِنْ مَآءِ الشُّؤُونِ وَكِيفُ
2 [رَسَمَ often signifies He marked, or stamped: and he drew, traced, traced out, sketched, sketched out, or planned: and he delineated, or described.] You say, رَسَمَ الطَّعَامَ He stamped, or sealed, the corn; (TA in art. رشم;) as also رَشَمَهُ. (S, K, TA, all in that art. [See رَوْسَمٌ.]) And رَسَمْتُ البِنَآءَ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, I marked out the building. And رَسَمَ كِتَابًا وَلَمْ يَحْشُهُ [He sketched out a book and did not fill it up]. (Mz 1st نوع.) And رَسَمْتُ الكِتَابَ I wrote the book, or letter, or writing. And رَسَمَ عَلَى كَذَا He wrote upon such a thing; and رَشَمَ is a dial. var. thereof.
3 [Hence,] رَسَمَ لَهُ كَذَا, or بِكَذَا,
4 رَسَمَتْ said of a she-camel, Present.T ـُ or ـِ not ـُ Verbal.Noun رَسِيمٌ, She made marks upon the ground by the vehemence of her tread.
5 And رَسَمَ said of a camel, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun رَسِيمٌ, with which مِرْسَمٌ is syn., He went a certain pace, exceeding that which is termed ذَمِيل [Verbal.Noun of ذَمَلَ, q. v.]: one should not say of a camel أَرْسَمَ, for this latter verb is trans.
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7 And رَسَمَ فِى الأَرْضِ, Verbal.Noun رَسْمٌ, He disappeared in the land, or country: and [hence], used metonymically,
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