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سُرْمٌ

Root: سرم

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سُرْمٌ The anus; the place of egress of the feces; i. e. the extremity of the rectum; a post-classical word: or the interior of the extremity of the rectum: or the edge, or margin, of the rectum: accord. to some, peculiarly in beasts of prey that have claws: pl. أَسْرَامٌ. Hence the phrase رَجُلٌ وَاسِعُ السُّرْمِ ضَخْمُ البُلْعُومِ, occurring in a trad., meaning A man strong, or vehement, and violent, or wrongful or unjust or tyrannical in conduct: or a man prodigal of wealth and of blood: and therefore described as wide in the places of egress and ingress. (TA in art. بلعم and in the present art.)
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