Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَخْرَمُ

Root: خرم

Full Definition

أَخْرَمُ [Having the nose mutilated in any of the manners explained in the first paragraph of this art.]: fem. خَرْمَآءُ: see 1, in three places.
2 And Having the ear perforated, when it is not slit: or having the ear slit after it has been pierced: (S and Msb* and TA in art. خرب:) and ↓مُخَرَّمٌ, likewise, signifies having the ear slit; as also أَخْرَبُ and مُخَرَّبٌ. And the fem., applied to a she-goat, Having her ear slit crosswise. (K. [See also خَذْمَآءُ.]) Also, the fem., applied to an ear, Slit, or perforated, or mutilated.

def.2 Also A pool of water left by a torrent; because one part thereof passes a way ( ) to another: pl. خُرْمٌ.
2 And the fem. also signifies Any hill, or rising ground, sloping down into a [hollow such as is termed] وَهْدَة; and so the masc.: or any [hill such as is termed] أَكَمَة having a side whereby it cannot be ascended.

def.3 أَخْرَمُ الكَتِفِ The extremity of the spine of the scapula: or a notch, or small hollowed place, [app. the glenoid cavity,] at the extremity of the spine of the scapula, next the socket: pl. أَخَارِمُ: or أَخْرَمَا الكَتِفَيْنِ, in the K miswritten آخِرُ مَا فِى الكَتَِفَيْنِ, signifies the heads of the two scapulæ, next the upper arms: or the two extremities, or edges, of the lower portion of the two scapulæ, which surround, or border, the كُعْبُرَة [app. here meaning the thick part next to the inferior angle] of the scapula: and الأَخْرَمُ the end of the spine [of the scapula]. (K, * TA. [In the K is here added, accord. to different copies, حَيْثُ يَنْخَدِعُ, as in the TA; or حيث يَنْخَدِمُ, as in the CK; or حيث يَنْخَذِمُ: the right reading seems to be حَيْثُ يَنْخَرِمُ, where it forms a kind of cleft; app. meaning where it forms the glenoid cavity. In the CK, for مُنْقَطَعُ العَيْرِ, is erroneously put مُنْقَطِعُ العَيْنِ; and و is erroneously prefixed to the former noun.])
2 الأَخْرَمَانِ Two cleft bones at the extremity of the interior of the upper part of the inside of the mouth.

def.4 أَخْرَمُ الرَّأْىِ A man weak in judgment.


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