لَمَسَهُ

Form: 1

Full Definition

لَمَسَهُI , Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun لَمْسٌ, He felt it; or touched it; syn. مَسَّهُ: or he felt it, or touched it, (مَسَّهُ,) with his hand: or he put his hand to it: or he felt it with his hand for the purpose of testing it, that he might form a judgment of it; syn. جَسَّهُ: and is syn. with لَمَسَهُ, or مَاسَّهُ: لَمْسٌ and مَسٌّ both signify the perceiving by means of the exterior of the external skin: or they are nearly alike: [generally, like the English words feeling and touching, respectively:] or the former is, originally, [the feeling] with the hand for the purpose of knowing the feel (مَسّ) of a thing: or, with the hand, it is the seeking for [or feeling for] a thing here and there: مُلَامَسَةٌ is the same as مُمَاسَّةٌ with the hand; as also لَمْسٌ: or a distinction is to be made between them; for it is said that لَمْسٌ is sometimes the feeling, or touching a thing with a thing; and is sometimes [for] the knowledge of a thing, though there be no touching (مَسّ) of substance upon substance; whereas ملامسة is mostly mutual feeling or touching, &c., being] the act of two.
2 [Hence,] لَمَسَهَا, Present.T ـُ [and ـِ as implied in the K], Verbal.Noun لَمْسٌ, Inivit eam; scil. mulierem; puellam; as also , Verbal.Noun مُلَامَسَةٌ and لِمَاسٌ: and he kissed her; by doing which, as well as by the former, one renders necessary the performance of the ablution termed وضوء.
3 [Hence also,] لَمَسَهُ, Present.T ـُ [and ـِ], Verbal.Noun لَمْسٌ, He sought, [as though by feeling,] or sought for or after, it, namely, a thing, in any manner; [as, for instance, by asking, or demanding;] as also , [which is more common,] and تلمّسهُ : or this last signifies he sought it, or sought for or after it, repeatedly, or time after time. You say, أُلْمُسْ لِى فُلَانًا Seek thou for me such a one. And it is said in the Kur, [lxxii. 8,] relating the words of the jinn, or genii, إِنَّا لَمَسْنَا السَّمَآءَ, Verily we sought to reach heaven: or to learn the news thereof: or to hear by stealth what was said therein: or we laboured, or strove, after (عَالَجْنَا) the secrets of heaven, and sought to hear them by stealth. And in a trad., مَنْ سَلَكَ طَرِيقًا بِهِ عِلْمًا Whoso pursueth a way whereby he seeketh after knowledge, or science. And in another, of 'Áïsheh, عِقْدِى And I sought for my necklace.
4 لَمَسَ البَصَرَ, Present.T ـُ It took away the sight. And the same, or, accord. to one relation of a trad., , It took away quickly, and destroyed, the sight; said there of certain serpents: or the meaning is, it aimed at the eye with its bite: and لَمَسَ عَيْنَهُ is said to signify [ he, or it, put out his eye,] the same as سَمَلَ.

Lane's Lexicon + Hans Wehr + Mawrid

Three dictionaries. One search.

"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."

47,000+ classical entries Root-based navigation Full text search Hyperlinked definitions

Search →

Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more

Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Full Definition

Related Words from the Same Root

Verbs

Nouns