Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

اعتلمهُ

Root: علم

Form: 8

Full Definition

اعتلمهُVIII : see 1, latter half.

def.2 اعتلم said of water, It flowed upon the ground.
2 And said of lightning it means لَمَعَ فى العلم [app. فِى العَلَمِ, and, if so, meaning It shone, shone brightly, or gleamed, in, or upon, the long mountain]: a poet says, بَلْ بُرَيْقًا بِتُّ أَرْقُبُهُ لَا يُرَى إِلَّا إِذَا ٱعْتَلَمَا [But a little lightning, in watching which I passed the night, not to be seen save when it shone, &c.].


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