تحلّم
Root: حلم
Form: 5
Full Definition
تحلّمV
: see 1, first and second sentences.
2 Also He affected, or pretended, to dream, or see a vision in sleep: whence, in a trad., تَحَلَّمَ مَا لَمْ يَحْلُمْ [He affected, or pretended, to have dreamed that which he did not dream]. And He asserted himself falsely to have dreamed, or seen a vision in sleep. And تحلّم الحُلْمَ i. q. اِسْتَعْمَلَهُ [He feigned the dream; or made use of it as a pretext].
def.2 He affected, or endeavoured to acquire, (تَكَلَّفَ) [the quality termed] الحِلْم [i. e. forbearance, or clemency, &c.]. A poet says,
2 See also حَلُمَ عَنْهُ.
3 [Hence,] تَحَلَّمَتِ القِدْرُ
4 See also 6.
def.3 It became fat; said of the [kind of lizard called] ضَبّ; (L in art. ملح;) and likewise of cattle: [or] it became fat and compact; said of a child, and of the ضَبّ: [or] it began to be fat; said of a child, and of the ضَبّ, and of the jerboa, and of the قُرَاد [or tick]; in the K, erroneously, جَرَاد.
2 تَحَلَّمَتِ القِرْبَةُ The skin became full.
2 Also He affected, or pretended, to dream, or see a vision in sleep: whence, in a trad., تَحَلَّمَ مَا لَمْ يَحْلُمْ [He affected, or pretended, to have dreamed that which he did not dream]. And He asserted himself falsely to have dreamed, or seen a vision in sleep. And تحلّم الحُلْمَ i. q. اِسْتَعْمَلَهُ [He feigned the dream; or made use of it as a pretext].
def.2 He affected, or endeavoured to acquire, (تَكَلَّفَ) [the quality termed] الحِلْم [i. e. forbearance, or clemency, &c.]. A poet says,
[Endeavour thou to treat with forbearance the meaner sort of people, and preserve their love; for thou wilt not be able to be forbearing unless thou endeavour to be so].تَحَلَّمْ عَنِ الأَدْنَيْنَ وَٱسْتَبْقِ وُدَّهُمْ وَلَنْ تَسْتَطِيعَ الحِلْمَ حَتَّى تَحَلَّمَا
2 See also حَلُمَ عَنْهُ.
3 [Hence,] تَحَلَّمَتِ القِدْرُ
4 See also 6.
def.3 It became fat; said of the [kind of lizard called] ضَبّ; (L in art. ملح;) and likewise of cattle: [or] it became fat and compact; said of a child, and of the ضَبّ: [or] it began to be fat; said of a child, and of the ضَبّ, and of the jerboa, and of the قُرَاد [or tick]; in the K, erroneously, جَرَاد.
2 تَحَلَّمَتِ القِرْبَةُ The skin became full.
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