عاومهُ

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عاومهُIII , Verbal.Noun مُعَاوَمَةٌ and عِوَامٌ, He hired him, or tock him as a hired man or hireling, for the year: or he made an engagement, or a contract, with him for work or the like, by the year or you say, عَامَلَهُ مُعَاوَمَةً; like as you say, مُشَاهَرَةً; the former from العَامُ, and the latter from الشَّهْرُ; &c. The مُعَاوَمَة that is forbidden is The setting the seed-produce of one's year, or the dates of one's palm-trees, or ones trees, for two years, or three, or for what will come forth in the next following year: or, as in the Nh, the selling the fruit of one's palm-trees or of one's grape-nines or of one's [other] trees for two years, or three, and more than that; or one's extending to a man the term of a debt that has become due by him and his increasing the amount of the debt: or one's adding somewhat to a debt and deferring it
2 And عاومت السَّخْلَةُ The palm-tree bore one year and did not bear another year: like سَانَهَت: (As, in K and TA, art. سنه.) as also : and الكَرْمُ, Verbal.Noun تَعْوِيمٌ, The grape-vine bore much one year and little another, (TA, [See also مُعْوِمٌ; perhaps a mistranscription for مُعَوِّمُ.])
3 Also (i. e. عاومت النخلة The palm-tree completed a year [of growth].

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