عِظْلِمٌ
Root: عظلم
Full Definition
عِظْلِمٌ
, of which عَظْلَمٌ is a dial. var., The expressed juice of a species of tree or plant, the colour of which is like
نِيل [or indigo], green (أَخْضَر) inclining to duskiness: or a certain plant, or thing, with which one dyes, said to be called in Pers.
نِيل [i. e. the indigo-plant]: (Msb, and so in some copies of the S; other copies of which, for نيل, have تفل:) or i. q.
وَسْمَةٌ [an appellation now applied to woad; as is also عِظْلِم]: AHn says, one of the Arabs of the desert told me that the عظلم is the male
وَسْمَة: he also says that it is a small tree or plant, (شُجَيْرَةٌ), of the [class called] رِبَّة, that grows in a late season, and the greenness of which is lasting: and in one place he says, an Arab of the desert, of the Saráh (السَّرَاة), told me that the عِظْلِمَة [which is the n. un.] is a tree or plant (شَجَرَةٌ) that rises upon a stem about a cubit [in height] and has branches at the extremities of which are what resemble the blossoms of the
كُزْبَرَة [or coriander], and it is dustcoloured: some say that it is the بِقَّم [or Brazil-wood]: MF says, it is the خَطْمِىّ [or marsh-mallow]: thus says El-Hareeree; but El-'Okbaree says that it is not that: and some say that it is a certain red dye. Hence the prov.,
2 Hence, as being likened thereto, it signifies also The dark night: one says لَيْلٌ عِظْلِمٌ.
i. e. [A white, or fair, female,] whose whiteness [or brightness] عظلم will not blacken [or darken]: applied to that which is notable, which nothing will conceal.بَيْضَآءُ لَايُدْجِى سَنَاهَا العِظْلِمُ
2 Hence, as being likened thereto, it signifies also The dark night: one says لَيْلٌ عِظْلِمٌ.
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