Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عُمُمٌ

Root: عم

Full Definition

عُمُمٌ Completeness of body [or bodily growth], and of wealth, and of youthful vigour, or of the period of youthfulness: so in the phrase اِسْتَوَى عَلَى عُمُمِهِ, occurring in a trad. of 'Orweh Ibn-Ez-Zubeyr, on his mentioning Uheyhah Ibn-El-Juláh and the saying of his maternal uncles respecting him, كُنَّا أَهْلَ ثُمِّهِ وَرُمِّهِ حَتَّى ٱسْتَوَى عَلَى عُمُمِهِ [i. e. We were the masters of the meaner and the better articles of his property until he attained to man's estate, or to his completeness of bodily growth, &c.]; [or] the meaning is, his completeness of stature and of bones and of limbs: also pronounced with teshdeed [or idghám, i. e. ], for the sake of conformity [with ثُمِّهِ and رُمِّهِ]; and by some, .
2 It is also pl. of عَمِيمٌ [q. v.].


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