طَمَحَ

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طَمَحَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun طُمُوحٌ (K in art. مد, and TK) and طِمَاحٌ and طَمْحٌ, His sight, or eye, became raised towards it, i. e., a thing: or became stretched and raised towards it. And طَمَحَ بِبَصَرِهِ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun طَمْحٌ, or طُمُوحٌ, He raised his eyes; [and] so أَطْمَحَ بَصَرَهُ: or cast his eyes: towards a thing (إِلَى شَىْءٍ, L, or نَحْوَ شَىْءٍ, Msb): [said to be] from the phrase جَبَلٌ طَامِحٌ. And طَمَحَ بَعَيْنِهِ, said of a proud man, He raised his eye. And طَمَحَتْ بِعَيْنِهَا She cast her eye at a man. And طَمَحَتْ [alone], said of a woman, She raised her eyes. And تَطْمَحُ إِلَى الرِّجَالِ [She raises her eyes towards, or looks at, men].
2 And طَمَحَ, Verbal.Noun طِمَاحٌ and طُمُوحٌ, He raised his head and his eyes in his running: or he raised his fore legs; and so طمّح , Verbal.Noun تَطْمِيحٌ: [or the former, he was, or became, refractory, and overcame his rider, running away with him: for] طِمَاحٌ is syn. with جِمَاحٌ, or like جِمَاحٌ: one says, فَرَسٌ فِيهِ طِمَاحٌ [a horse in which is refractoriness, &c.].
3 طَمَحَتْ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun طِمَاحٌ, is also said of a woman, meaning She was, or became, disobedient to her husband, resisting him, hating him, and deserting him: and, thus said of a woman, طَمَحَتْ, or طَمَحَتْ عَلَى زَوْجِهَا, is syn. with, or like, جَمَحَتْ [she went forth from the place where she used to pass the night, in anger, without the permission of her husband]: and طَمَحَتْ مِنْ زَوْجِهَا and جَمَحَتْ she went forth from the house, or tent, of her husband, to her own family, before he divorced her. (TA in art. جمع.) And طَمَحَ, like جَمَحَ اليه, said of a man, He hastened, or went quickly, to him, or it, so that his course was not turned for anything. (TA in art. طمح.)
4 طَمَحَ, Verbal.Noun طِمَاحٌ, also signifies He was proud, and boastful; because he who is so exalts himself.
5 And طَمَحَ فِى السَّوْمِ He went far beyond what was right, or just, in making a bargain for his merchandise. And طَمَحَ, or طَمَحَ فِى الطَّلَبِ, He went far in search; so accord. to some. [طَمَحَ إِلَى كُلِّ شَىْء, said of the heart, app. means It aspired to everything: see its part. n., طَامِحٌ.]
6 طَمَحَ الشُّخْبُ The extended stream of milk from the udder fell upon the ground so as to be unprofitable. (Provs. of Meyd, section ش: see شُخْبٌ.)
7 طَمَحَ بِهِ He made, or caused, him, or it, to go, go away, or pass away; took away, carried off, or went away with, him, or it.
8 And طَمَحْتُ الشَّىْءَ [if not a mistranscription for طَمَّحْتُ بِالشَّىْءِ] I cast the thing in the air.

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