رِثْمٌ

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رِثْمٌ [The antilope leucoryx, or white antelope;] an antelope (ظَبْىٌ) that is purely white; so accord. to As; and AZ says the like; inhabiting the sands: or, as some say, the young one of the ظَبْى [here app. meaning gazelle]: the female is called رِئْمَةٌ: pl. أَرْآمٌ and آرَامٌ; the latter pl. formed by transposition. [Whether the Hebrew XXX or or mean the same animal as the Arabic رِئْم is doubtful.]
2 [Hence,] مَرَّتْ بِنَاالآرَامُ The beautiful, or pretty, women passed, or went, by us: so called by way of comparison.

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