سَقِيمٌ
Root: سقم
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سَقِيمٌ
Diseased, disordered, distempered, sick, or ill; as also
سَقِمٌ : or long diseased &c.: pl. of the former سِقَامٌ, like كِرَامٌ pl. of كَرِيمٌ. See also مِسْقَامٌ, and مُسْقِمٌ. The phrase إِنِي سَقِيمٌ, occurring in the Kur [xxxvii. 87], as a saying of Abraham, is expl. by some as meaning [Verily I am] smitten with the
طَاعُون [or pestilence]: or the meaning is, I shall be diseased at a future time, when the period shall have come; and it is said that he inferred, from looking at the stars, the time of a fever's coming to him: or it means
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