مَحْسُومٌ
Root: حسم
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مَحْسُومٌ
A child whose sucking is stopped: and whose food is stopped. And A child badly fed. Hence the prov., وَلْغُ جُرَىٍّ كَانَ مَحْسُومًا
[The lapping of a little puppy that had been badly fed]: said on the occasion of a greedy person's taking much of a thing that he had not been able to obtain, and that he had became able to obtain; or in ordering one to take much when able. (TA. [See Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 817; where another reading is given, namely, مَحْشُومًا in the place of مَحْسُومًا, as well as the reading here given.])
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