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عَارِمٌ

Root: عرم

Full Definition

عَارِمٌ and عَرِمٌ , applied to a boy, or child, or to a man, Evil in disposition, or illnatured, and very perverse or cross or repugnant; and sharp: or vehement, or strong: and, applied to a boy, or child, insolent and unthankful, or ungrateful: or bad, corrupt, or wicked: the former epithet, applied to a man, signifies also abominable, or evil: and so its fem. pl. عَارِمَات, applied by a rájiz as an epithet to creeping [ticks, or similar insects, such as are termed] أَنْبَار [pl. of نِبْرٌ]: and عَرِمٌ is said by IAar to signify ignorant: عَرَمَةٌ is pl. of عَارِمٌ, and is applied as an epithet to boys, like عَقَقَةٌ [pl. of عَاقٌّ].
2 [Hence,] لِسَانٌ عَارِمٌ A vehement tongue. (TA. [See an ex. voce شَكِىٌّ.])
3 And يَوْمٌ عَارِمٌ A day vehemently cold: or a day cold in the utmost degree: and in like manner لَيْلٌ عَارِمٌ [a night vehemently cold: &c.]: and [the pl. in this sense is عُرَّمٌ:] اللَّيَالِى العُرَّمُ signifies the vehemently-cold nights.

def.2 Also [Sucking the breast; or] a sucker of the breast: so in a verse cited above: see 8.

def.3 مَا هُوَ بِعَارِمِ عَقْلٍ see expl. voce حَارِمٌ
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