سَمِينٌ

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سَمِينٌ Fat, or plump; contr. of مُهْزُولٌ; or having much flesh and fat; and سَامِنٌ signifies the same: fem. with ة: [see سَاحّق:] pl. سِمَانٌ, used instead of سُمَنَآءُ, which they did not say: accord. to Lh, مُسْمِنٌ signifies fat, or plump, by nature; applied to a man: and some say اِمْرَأَةٌ meaning a woman fat, or plump, syn. سَمِينَةٌ, or امرأة , like مُكْرَمَةٌ [in measure], meaning [a woman rendered fat, or plump,] by nature; and بِالأَدْوِيَةِ [rendered fat, or plump, by medicines]; and woe, on the day of resurrection, by reason of languor in the bones, is denounced in a trad. against women who make use of medicine to render themselves thus.
2 [Hence,] أَرْضٌ سَمِينَةٌ [Fat land; i. e.] land of good soil, with few stones, strong to foster plants or herbage: or land consisting of soil in which is no stone.
3 And كَلَامٌ سَمِينٌ Chaste, eloquent, or excellent, language. (L in art. قصد.)
4 See also مَسْمُونٌ.

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