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رَامِحٌ

Root: رمح

Full Definition

رَامِحٌ Thrusting, or piercing, another with a رُمْح [i. e. spear, or lance].
2 Also A man having a رُمْح [spear, or lance]; and so رَمَّاحٌ : the former an epithet [of the possessive kind,] similar to لَابِنٌ and تَامِرٌ, having no verb.
3 السِّمَاكُ الرَّامِحُ is the name of [The star Arcturus;] a certain star, before, or preceding, الفَكَّة [or Corona Borealis], preceded by another star, [the star η in the left leg of Bootes,] which is called its [or spear, i. e. رُمْحُ السِّمَاكِ and simply الرُّمْحُ], whence its name: it is one of two stars which are together called السِّمَاكَانِ; and is not one of the Mansions of the Moon: it is also called السِّمَاكُ المِرْزَمُ: the other سماك [is Spica Virginis, the Fourteenth Mansion of the Moon, and] is called الأَعْزَلُ, because it has no star [near] before it: الرامح is more red.
4 رَامِحٌ also signifies A bull; so called because of his pair of horns: [i. e.] a wild bull; thought by ISd to be so called because of his horn: or ثَوْرٌ رَامِحٌ signifies a [wild] bull having a pair of horns.
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