جُثْمَانٌ
Root: جثم
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جُثْمَانٌ
The body, with the limbs or members; syn. جِسْمٌ: and i. q.
شَخْصٌ [app. as meaning a person; not, as J seems to have held, a corporeal, or material, form or thing or substance, such as is seen from a distance; see جِسْمٌ]: or, accord. to As, it has the latter meaning, i. q.
شَخْصٌ; and جُسْمَانٌ has the former meaning, that of جِسْمٌ and جَسَدٌ: or, accord. to AZ, جُثْمَانٌ is syn. with
جُسْمَانٌ, i. e. جَسَدٌ. One says, مَا أَحْسَنَ
جُثْمَانَ الرَّجُلِ and جُسْمَانَهُ, meaning [How goodly, or beautiful, is] the body, or person, of the man ! J cites, as an ex. of this word in the sense of شخص, from a verse of Bishr,
observing that by البنيّة is meant the Kaabeh: but IB says that the right reading, as found in his poetry, is البَلِيَّةِ, and أَتْلَعُ; and that the meaning is, A [long] hump like the جثمان [or body] of the she-camel that is placed [and confined without food or water until she dies] at the grave of a dead man. One says also, جَآءَنَا بِثَرِيدٍ كَجُثْمَانِ المَآءِ [He brought us crumbled bread moistened with broth and piled up, like the body of the bird of the kind called قَطًا].سَنَامٌ كَجُثْمَانِ البَنِيِّةِ أَتْلَعَا
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