مُبْهَمٌ

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مُبْهَمٌ , applied to a door, Closed, or locked, so that one cannot find the way to open it: and stopped up: or having a lock upon it, with which it is fastened.
2 A wall in which is no door.
3 A chest having no lock [by means of which it may be opened].
4 I. q. مُصْمَتٌ [as meaning Solid; not hollow; in the CK أَصْمَتُ, which signifies the same]; as also أَبْهَمُ : having no fissure in it: and ↓ the latter, applied to a heart is said to mean impenetrable by admonition.
5 A thing, or an affair, made to be dubious, confused, or vague; [such that there is no way, or manner, of knowing it; ] or such that one knows not the way, or manner, in which it should be engaged in, done, executed, or performed: speech, or language, [that is dubious, confused, or vague,] such that there is no way, or manner, of knowing it: applied to a road, unapparent, or hardly apparent: and, applied to the ordinance respecting the making up for the days in which one has broken a fast, [and to many other cases,] undefined; in this instance meaning, as to whether the days may be interrupted, or whether they must be consecutive. [Hence,] مُبْهَمَاتٌ Difficult things, or affairs, such that one cannot find the way to perform them. And الأَسْمَآءُ المُبْهَمَةُ, so termed by the grammarians, The nouns of indication, such as هٰذَا and هٰؤُلَآءِ and ذَاكَ and أُولَائِكَ: accord. to Az, الحُرُوفُ المُبْهَمَةُ signifies the particles which have no derivatives, and of which the roots are not known, as الَّذِى and مَا and مَنْ and عَنْ and the like.
6 Applied to a vow, and to [certain ordinances respecting] marriage and divorce and emancipation, From which there is no getting out, or extricating of oneself; as though they were closed doors with locks upon them: and, applied to prohibited things, not allowable in any manner, nor for any cause; or prohibited unconditionally; as the prohibition of [the marriage with] the mother, and the sister, and the like: such a woman is said to be مُبْهَمَةٌ عَلَى الرَّجُلِ [absolutely prohibited to the man; as though she were closed against him, or inaccessible to him]. (Msb. [But in this last work it seems to be مثبْهِمَةٌ, which is not agreeable with common usage.]) In the copies of the K, بُهْمٌ and بُهُمٌ are given as pls. of this word: but it seems that there is an omission or a misplacement in the passage; for these are said to be pls. of بَهِيمٌ, as shown above.
7 In a state of swooning or insensibility, speechless, and without discrimination; in consequence of a blow [&c.].
8 See also بَهِيمٌ.

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