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سَخَّمَ

Root: سخم

Form: 2

Full Definition

سَخَّمَII , [Verbal.Noun تَسْخِيمٌ,] He blackened his face with سُخَام, i. e. crock of the cooking-pot, or it is from السُّخَامُ; like سحّمهُ, which is from الأَسْحَمُ. 'Omar said of him who bears false witness, يُسَخَّمُ وَجْهُهُ [His face shall be blackened]. And one says, سَخَّمَ ٱللّٰهُ وَجْهَهُ, i. e. May God blacken his face: [or may God disgrace him:] or may God hate him, or hate him in the utmost degree; and be angry with him.
2 سخّم المَآءَ, He heated the water, and made it to boil.
3 And سخّم بِصَدْرِهِ, Verbal.Noun as above, He angered him.

def.2 سخّم اللَّحْمُ, Verbal.Noun as above, The flesh-meat became stinking; became altered [for the worse].
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