Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَعَمُّ

Root: عم

Full Definition

أَعَمُّ [More, and most, common or general: applied to a word, more, and most, general in signification].

def.2 As a simple epithet, with its fem. عَمَّآءُ: see عَمِيمٌ.
2 Also, the former, Thick and complete [or of full size]; applied in this sense to the middle of a she-camel, in a verse of El-Museiyab Ibn-'Alas.

def.3 See also عَمٌّ, first sentence.


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