سَائِمٌ
Root: سوم
Full Definition
سَائِمٌ
[Going, or going away, engaged, or occupied, in seeking, or in seeking for or after, or in seeking to find and take or to get, a thing: ] going away at random, or roving, wherever he will. And [particularly], as also
سَوَامٌ and سَائِمَةٌ, Cattle, (مَالٌ, S, TA, or مَاشِيَةٌ, Mgh, Msb,) or camels, and sheep or goats, pasturing by themselves where they please; or sent forth to pasture, and not fed with fodder among the family [to whom they belong]; or pasturing in the deserts, left to go and pasture where they will: the pl. of سَائِمٌ and of سَائِمَةٌ is سَوَائِمُ: the pass. part. n. مُسَامٌ is not used. It is said in a trad., فِى سَائِمَةِ الغَنَمِ زَكَاةٌ [In the case of pasturing sheep or goats, there is a poor-rate]. And in another trad., السَّائِمَةُ جُبَارٌ, i. e. The beast (دَابَّة) that is sent away into its place of pasture, if it hurt a human being, the injury committed by it is a thing for which no mulct is exacted. And it is related in a trad. respecting the emigration to Abyssinia, that the Nejáshee said to those who had emigrated to his country, اُمْكُثُوا فَأَنْتُمْ سُيُومٌ بِأَرَضِى, i. e. [Tarry ye, and ye will be] secure [in my land]: IAth says that thus it is explained: and سيوم is [said to be] an Abyssinian word: it is related also with fet-h to the س: and some say that سُيُومٌ is pl. of سَائِمٌ [like as شُهُودٌ is said to be of شَاهِدٌ]; i. e., ye shall rove (تَسُومُونَ) in my country like the sheep, or goats, pasturing where they please (كَالغَنَمِ السَّائِمَةِ), no one opposing you: or, as some relate the trad., it is شُيُومٌ. (TA in art. شيم.)
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