صَامَ

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صَامَI , Present.T يَصُومُ, Verbal.Noun صَوْمٌ, and صِيَامٌ; and ; He abstained, in an absolute sense: this is the primary signification: [or] this is said to be the signification in the proper language of the Arabs: and in the language of the law, he observed a particular kind of abstinence; i. e. he abstained from food and drink and coïtus: and by a tropical application, from speech: or صَوْمٌ in the proper language of the Arabs signifies a man's abstaining from eating: and by a secondary application, a particular serving of God [by fasting]; [i. e.] the abstaining from eating and drinking and coïtus from daybreak to sunset: accord. to Kh, it signifies [properly] the standing without work. صام الشَّهْرَ means صام فِى الشَّهْرِ [He fasted during the month]: agreeably with what is said in the Kur ii. 181. And it is said by I'Ab that the saying, in the Kur [xix. 27], إِنِّى نَذَرْتُ لِلرَّحْمٰنِ صَوْمًا means [Verily I have vowed unto the Compassionate] an abstaining from speech. One says also, صام الفَرَسُ, Verbal.Noun صَوْمٌ and صِيَامٌ, The horse stood without eating of fodder; or abstained from the eating of fodder. And صام عَنِ السَّيْرِ He abstained from going along, or journeying.
2 [Hence,] صامت الشَّمْسُ The sun became [apparently] stationary [in the mid-heaven]: or attained its full height.
3 And صام النَّهَارُ, (Verbal.Noun صَوْمٌ, S,) The day reached its midpoint.
4 And صامت الرِّيحُ, Verbal.Noun صَوْمٌ, The wind became still, or calm.
5 And صام المَآءُ, [Verbal.Noun صِيَامٌ (see صُلَاقَةٌ) and probably صَوْمٌ also,] The water became still, or motionless; syn. قَامَ and دَامَ.
6 And صام النَّعَامُ, Verbal.Noun صَوْمٌ, The ostrich cast forth its dung; and in the same sense the verb is used in relation to the domestic fowl; because each stands still in doing this, or because each becomes tranquil by reason of the passing forth of that which occasions annoyance: and accord. to [some one or more of the copies of] the M, صام النَّهَارُ, Verbal.Noun صَوْمٌ, The نهار, by which is here meant the young one of the كَرَوَان, [or rather of the bustard called حُبَارَى,] cast forth what was in its belly.

def.2 صام مَنِيَّتَهُ i. q. ذَاقَهَا [He tasted, or experienced, his death].

def.3 And صَامَ He shaded himself by means of the tree called صَوْم.

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