بَغَمَتْ

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بَغَمَتْI , Present.T ـِ and ـَ and ـُ Verbal.Noun بُغَامٌ and بُغُومٌ; and تبغّمت ; She uttered a cry: or uttered her softest, or gentlest, cry to her young one: and sometimes it is said of a [wild] cow: so too بَغَمَ said of a male gazelle: and the verb is also used transitively, said of a female gazelle uttering this cry to her young one. Also, ↓ both verbs, She uttered a cry without clearness: or uttered a broken, or an interrupted, not a prolonged, yearning cry, to, or for, her young one: or uttered a weak cry, below that [grumbling cry] which is termed رُغَآء. [See an ex. in a verse of Dhu-rRummeh cited voce إِلَّا.] And بَغَمَ and تبغّم said of the ثَيْتَل and إِيَّل and وَعِل, [all of which words are said to signify the mountain goat,] He uttered a cry.
2 بَغَمَهُ, and بَغَمَ لَهُ, He spoke to him obscurely, not expressing clearly to him the meaning of his speech to him; taken from the بُغَام of the she-camel; because it is a cry not uttered clearly.

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