Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

شُيُومٌ

Root: شيم

Full Definition

شُيُومٌ A people, or party, in a state of security: occurring in a trad.: and it is said that شيوم is an Abyssinian word: but, as some relate the trad., it is سُيُومٌ [q. v., voce سَائِمٌ, of which it is said to be pl.].


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