حُطَامٌ

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حُطَامٌ What is broken in pieces, of a thing that is dry, or tough. (S, K. [In the CK, by the accidental omission of وَ كَغُرَابٍ, this signification and the next here following, from the K, are assigned to صَعْدَةٌ حِطَمٌ. See حِطْمَةٌ, which, accord. to some copies of the K, is syn. with حُطَامٌ in the sense explained above.]) And Fragments of eggs; or of an egg-shell; so in a verse of Et-Tirimmáh: or the shell of the egg.
2 [See a tropical usage of it in an ex. cited, from a trad., voce ثُمَامٌ.]
3 حُطَامُ الدُّنْيَا The frail, or perishing, goods, or possessions, of the present world: accord. to Z, from حُطَامٌ signifying the “ fragments ” of eggs: or [simply] the goods of the present world. (TA in art. عرض.)

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