جَمَحَ

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جَمَحَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun جِمَاحٌ and جُمُوحٌ and جَمْحٌ, or this last has not been heard, He overcame his rider, or gained the mastery over him, running away with him: or broke loose, or ran away, and went at random, without any certain aim, so as not to be turned by anything: or ran so as to have the mastery over his rider: and جَمَحَ بِرَاكِبِهِ he overcame his rider, and ran away so that he could not govern him: or became refractory, so that he overcame his rider: and sometimes, this verb also signifies he was quick, or swift, and brisk, lively, or sprightly; denoting in this case a quality that is approved; whereas in the senses before explained it denotes a quality that is disapproved: but in the last sense it is obsolete [unless tropically applied to a man].
2 [Hence,] He went at random, or heedlessly, without consideration or certain aim, not obeying a guide to the right course. And He hastened, or went quickly, إِلَيْهِ to him, or it, so that his course was not turned for anything. وَهُمْ يَجْمَحُونَ, in the Kur [ix. 57], means They hastening, or going quickly: or hastening so that nothing turns them back, like the horse that is termed جَمُوح: or running like horses that overcome their riders and run away so as to be ungovernable by them. And جَمَحَ فِى إِثْرِهِ, occurring in a trad., He hastened after him, or it, so that nothing turned him back.
3 جَمَحَتِ المَرْأَةُ The woman went forth from the place where she used to pass the night, in anger, without the permission of her husband. And جَمَحَتْ مِنْ زَوْجِهَا, so in the S and L &c., but in the K جَمَحَتْ زَوْجَهَا, [which is evidently a mistake,] She went forth from the house, or tent, of her husband, to her own family, before he divorced her; Verbal.Noun جِمَاحٌ. And جَمَحَتْ إِلَى أَهْلِهَا She went to her family without the permission of her husband.
4 جَمَحَتِ السَّفِينَةُ The ship quitted her course, and became ungovernable by the sailors; Verbal.Noun جُمُوحٌ.
5 جَمَحَتِ المَفَازَةُ بِالقَوْمِ The desert led the people, or party, far away, by reason of its great extent.
6 جَمَحَ بِهِ مُرَادُهُ The object of his desire baffled his efforts to attain it.

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