ظَلِيمٌ
Root: ظلم
Full Definition
ظَلِيمٌ
[as syn. with مَظْلُومٌ in the primary sense of the latter I have not found: but as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates it signifies]
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def.2 Also The male ostrich: said to be so called because he makes a place for the laying and hatching of the eggs (يُدَحِّى, Verbal.Noun تَدْحِيَةٌ,) where the doing so is not proper: or, accord. to Er-Rághib and others, because he is believed to be deaf: pl. ظِلْمَانٌ and ظُلْمَانٌ and أَظْلِمَةٌ, which last is a pl. of pauc.
2 And الظَّلِيمَانِ is an appellation of Two stars; the two stars of القَوْس [or Sagittarius] that are on the northern curved end of the bow [i. e.λ and
μ , above the nine stars called
النَّعَائِم, or “ the ostriches ”]. And الظَّلِيمُ is the name of The bright star [
α ] at the end of
النَّهْر [i. e. Eridanus]: and A star upon the mouth of
الحُوت [i. e. Piscis Australis] [It seems to be implied in the K that الظَّلِيمُ is the name of two stars; or it may be there meant that each of two stars is thus called. Freytag represents the sing. as “ a name of stars, ” and the dual also as “ a name of stars; ” referring, in relation to the former, to Ideler's “ Untersuch, ” pp. 201, 228, and 233; and in relation to the latter, to the same work, pp. 106 and 184.]
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def.2 Also The male ostrich: said to be so called because he makes a place for the laying and hatching of the eggs (يُدَحِّى, Verbal.Noun تَدْحِيَةٌ,) where the doing so is not proper: or, accord. to Er-Rághib and others, because he is believed to be deaf: pl. ظِلْمَانٌ and ظُلْمَانٌ and أَظْلِمَةٌ, which last is a pl. of pauc.
2 And الظَّلِيمَانِ is an appellation of Two stars; the two stars of القَوْس [or Sagittarius] that are on the northern curved end of the bow [i. e.
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