اتهم
Root: تهم
Form: 4
Full Definition
اتهمIV
He went, or came, to Tihámeh: Er-Riyáshee says, I have heard the Arabs of the desert say thus of him who has descended from the mountain-roads of Dhát 'Irk: or he alighted, or abode, therein: as also
, (JK, K, TA, [in the CK, erroneously, تَاهَّمَ,]) in the latter sense,
2 [Accord. to Golius, on the authority of a gloss. in the KL, it signifies also, He went into a region of hot air: and this, if correct, may be the primary meaning.]
def.2 اتهم البَلَدَ He found the country, or town, to be insalubrious, and to have a bad, or foul, odour.
def.3 اتهم, Verbal.Noun إِتْهَامٌ; in measure like أَكْرَمَ, Verbal.Noun إِكْرَامٌ; [originally اوهم; or] formed from تُهَمَةٌ, in consequence of imagining the ت in this word to be radical; (MF in art. وهم;) [like as is said of أَتْخَمَ;] He did a thing that made him an object of suspicion: or he was an object of suspicion: (K in art. وهم: [in the CK and TK, erroneously, اتّهم:]) or there was in him that which induced suspicion: you say of a man, when you suspect him, أَتْهَمْتَ, Verbal.Noun إِتْهَامٌ; like أَدْوَأْتَ, Verbal.Noun إِدْوَآءٌ. (S in art. وهم.)
def.4 اتهمهُ He suspected him; thought evil of him; as also [which is the more common]. You say, اتهمهُ بِكَذَا, (K, and so in some copies of the S, both in art. وهم,) Verbal.Noun إِتْهَامٌ; or بِهِ; and أَوْهَمَهُ; He suspected him of such a thing; imputed it to him; [and he accused him of such a thing;] i. e., a thing attributed to him. And فِى قَوْلِهِ [I suspected him in respect of his saying;] I doubted of the correctness, or truth, of his saying. (Msb in art. وهم.)
2 [Accord. to Golius, on the authority of a gloss. in the KL, it signifies also, He went into a region of hot air: and this, if correct, may be the primary meaning.]
def.2 اتهم البَلَدَ He found the country, or town, to be insalubrious, and to have a bad, or foul, odour.
def.3 اتهم, Verbal.Noun إِتْهَامٌ; in measure like أَكْرَمَ, Verbal.Noun إِكْرَامٌ; [originally اوهم; or] formed from تُهَمَةٌ, in consequence of imagining the ت in this word to be radical; (MF in art. وهم;) [like as is said of أَتْخَمَ;] He did a thing that made him an object of suspicion: or he was an object of suspicion: (K in art. وهم: [in the CK and TK, erroneously, اتّهم:]) or there was in him that which induced suspicion: you say of a man, when you suspect him, أَتْهَمْتَ, Verbal.Noun إِتْهَامٌ; like أَدْوَأْتَ, Verbal.Noun إِدْوَآءٌ. (S in art. وهم.)
def.4 اتهمهُ He suspected him; thought evil of him; as also [which is the more common]. You say, اتهمهُ بِكَذَا, (K, and so in some copies of the S, both in art. وهم,) Verbal.Noun إِتْهَامٌ; or بِهِ; and أَوْهَمَهُ; He suspected him of such a thing; imputed it to him; [and he accused him of such a thing;] i. e., a thing attributed to him. And فِى قَوْلِهِ [I suspected him in respect of his saying;] I doubted of the correctness, or truth, of his saying. (Msb in art. وهم.)
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