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رَائِمٌ

Root: رأم

Full Definition

رَائِمٌ , or رَائِمَةٌ, or both, and , [but the last has probably an intensive signification,] A she-camel that loves, or affects, or inclines to, and keeps to, or cleaves to, her young one, or the young one of another: if she do not so, but smells it, and does not yield her milk to it, she is termed عَلُوقٌ: so says A'Obeyd, on the authority of As: the pl. of رَائِمَةٌ is رَوَائِمُ.
2 Hence, الرَّوَائِمُ signifies The three stones whereon the cooking-pot is placed; what are called الأَثَافِى; that have remained cleaving to the ashes: because of their cleaving to the ashes: the ashes being as though they were their young.
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