Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عَظِيمَةٌ

Root: عظم

Full Definition

عَظِيمَةٌ A severe calamity or misfortune; as also مُعْظَمَةٌ ; [and so مُعْظَمٌ , thus in a verse cited in the S in art. ولب:] pl. of the first عَظَائِمُ; and of the second .
2 [And A great crime or the like; a meaning well known: so I have rendered it voce صَخَّ: in art. طمر in the O and TA, its pl. عَظَائِمُ, is rendered by ذُنُوب: see مُطَمَّرٌ.]

def.2 See also إِعْظَامَةٌ.


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