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صُرَامٌ

Root: صرم

Full Definition

صُرَامٌ : see صَارِمٌ.

def.2 Also The last milk [remaining in the udder] after what is termed التَّغْرِيز [which is variously explained (see 2 in art. غرز), in the CK and in one of my copies of the S erroneously written التَّغْزِير,] which a man draws when in need of it. Bishr says, أَلَا أَبْلِغْ بَنِى سَعْدٍ رَسُولًا وَمَوْلَا هُمْ فَقَدْ حُلِبَتْ صُرَامُ [Now deliver thou to Benoo-Saad a message, and to their chief, that the last milk in the udder has been drawn]: the last two words [the latter of which is written in the CK ] are a prov., meaning the excuse has reached its uttermost: thus says AO: IB says that صُرَامُ in the saying of Bishr means the she-camel that is termed , that has no milk; [i.e. that the phrase means the she-camel that has now no milk has been milked;] and that he makes it a proper name; and that he [also] means thereby the latter of the two senses here following.
2 الصُّرَامُ is also one of the names for War, or battle; and so , [indecl.,] like قَطَامِ: and one of the names for calamity, or misfortune. (As, S, K. * [See also صَيْرَمٌ.])
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