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زَرِمٌ

Root: زرم

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زَرِمٌ Anything becoming interrupted, or stopped; stopping, or ceasing; as also أَزْرَمُ . Scanty, or little in quantity, and becoming interrupted, or stopped: so in the phrase رَجُلٌ زَرِمُ الدَّمْعِ: or this signifies [simply] a man whose tears are becoming interrupted, or stopped.
2 A she-camel that interrupts her flow of urine by little and little. (AA, TA. [Thus used as a fem. epithet without ة.])
3 A dog, and a cat, whose dung, or dry dung, has stopped in his rectum.
4 Straitened [app. in his means of subsistence].
5 Niggardly, or avaricious.
6 Low, object, mean, or ignominious, whose near kinsfolk are few; as also .
7 One who does not remain fixed, or settled, in any place.
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