تَنُّومٌ
Root: تنم
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تَنُّومٌ
A kind of trees having a small fruit, like that of the
خِرْوَع [or castor-oil plant], which, bursting, discloses grains, that are eaten by the people of the desert: as the sun declines, it follows it with the [upper] sides of its leaves: its fruit, with
حُرْف, i. e. حَبُّ الرَّشَادِ [q. v.], and water, drunk, expels worms; and the application of its leaves, with vinegar, in the manner of a poultice, draws forth warts: n. un. with ة: AHn says, it is a kind of dust-coloured trees, of those termed
أَغْلَاث, eaten by ostriches and gazelles, and of those among which gazelles are snared: its grain, when the coverings thereof open, becomes black; and it has a root (عِرْق), sometimes made into a
زَنْد [for producing fire]: the places where it grows are mostly the sides of valleys: IAar says, the تنّومة is a tree of the kind called
جَنْبَة, of large size, in which grow grains like hemp-seed, used for ointment, and as a seasoning, or condiment: it dries up at the beginning of winter, and disappears: all this is from AHn: A'Obeyd says, it is one of the plants of the earth, in which, and in the fruit whereof, is a blackness: it is eaten by the ostrich: the pl. [or coll. gen. n.] is تَنُّومٌ: I say, it is a tree which I have seen in the desert: the colour of its leaves inclines to blackness, and it has grains like hemp-seed, or a little larger: I have seen the women of the desert bruise its grains, and express from them a blue oil, in which is a viscosity; and they anoint their hair with it when they comb themselves: AA says, the
تنّوم
has a grain which is oily and dustcoloured: En-Nadr says, the
تنّومة
is of an ill savour, and the beasts do not like it, or eat much of it: [it is erroneously said in the K, voce طُلَّامٌ, to be hemp-seed (حَبُّ الشَّاهْدَانِج): and] some say that it is the hemp-plant (شجر الشهدانج). The sun, when eclipsed, is said in a trad. to have become black, and like a تنّومة. And a poet, who married a woman, and found her to be pretty, but with hoary hair, and who had a youthful wife at his abode, likens the hair of the former to the flower of the أُقْحُوَان, and black hair to تنّوم; saying
[And when I saw the chamomile flowering, and saw not tennoom, I remembered my abode].وَلَمَّا رَأَيْتُ الأُقْحُوَانَ مُنَوِّرًا وَلَمْ أَرَ تَنُّومًا تَذَكَّرْتُ مَنْزِلِى
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