Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَتُومٌ

Root: اتم

Full Definition

أَتُومٌ is primarily used in relation to the سِقآء [or skin for water or milk; as meaning] Having two punctures of a seam (خُرْزَتَانِ) rent so that they become one.
2 And hence, or from أَتَمَ as meaning “he brought together, or united,” two things, A woman whose مَسْلَكَانِ [or vagina and rectum] meet together in one, [by the rupture of the part between them,] becoming conjoined, so that the فَرْج is enlarged thereby, on the occasion of devirgination; i. q. مُفْضَاةٌ, as some say; or مُفَاضَةٌ; (K; [said in the TA to be a mistake: but مُفْضَاةٌ and مُفَاضَةٌ are said in the M, in art. فيض, to have the same signification;]) a woman whose مَسْلَكَانِ have become one: or, as some say, small in the فَرْجَ [or vagina]: or it has these two contr. significations.


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