Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حَالِمٌ

Root: حلم

Full Definition

حَالِمٌ originally signifies مُحْتَلِمٌ [i. e. Dreaming: and particularly dreaming of copulation: and experiencing an emission of the seminal fluid in dreaming].
2 Hence used in a general sense, meaning One who has attained to puberty, or virility; as also مُحْتَلِمٌ .


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