أَكَمَةٌ
Root: اكم
Full Definition
أَكَمَةٌ
A hill, or mound, syn. تَلٌّ, [in an absolute sense, or] of what is termed
قُفّ [q. v.], or, as in the M, of a single collection of stones: or it is inferior to mountains: or a place that is more elevated than what is around it, and is rugged, not to the degree of being stone: or an isolated mountain: (K voce جَبَلٌ:) or an eminence like what is termed
رَابِيَة: a collection of stones in one place, sometimes rugged and sometimes not rugged: or i. q.
قُفٌّ, except that the
اكمة
is higher and greater: or what is higher than the
قُفّ, compact and round, rising into the sky, abounding with stones: pl. أَكَمَاتٌ and
أَكَمٌ , [or this is rather a coll. gen. n. of which أَكَمَةٌ is the n. un.,] and إِكَامٌ, or this is pl. of أَكَمٌ, and أُكُمٌ, or this is pl. of إِكَامٌ, and آكَامٌ [a pl. of pauc.], or this is pl. of أُكُمٌ, and آكُمٌ [which is also a pl. of pauc.], or this is a pl. of أَكَمٌ: IHsh says that أَكَمٌ is the only word like ثَمَرٌ in its series of pls.; for its sing. [or n. un.] is أَكَمَةٌ, and the pl. of this [or the coll. gen. n.] is أَكَمٌ, and the pl. of this is إِكَامٌ, and the pl. of this is أُكُمٌ, and the pl. of this is آكَامٌ, and the pl. of this is أَكَامِيمُ [or أَوَاكِيمُ?]. (MF in art. ثمر.) It is said in a prov., used in ridiculing any one who has told of his committing some fault, not desiring to reveal it, جُسْتُمُونِى وَوَرَآءَ الأَكَمَةِ مَا وَرَآءَهَا [in which I think the first word to be a mistranscription, for جِئْتُمُونِى, and the literal meaning to be, Ye have come to me; but behind the hill is what is behind it]: related on the authority of Zeyd Ibn-Kethweh. And one says, لَا تَبُلْ عَلَى
أَكَمةٍ, meaning
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