عُقْمِىٌّ

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عُقْمِىٌّ A man of old [or hereditary] nobility and generosity. (K, TA. [For والكَرِيمُ in the CK, I read وَالكَرَمِ, as in other copies of the K and in the TA.])
2 Also, and عُقْمِىٌّ , [as rel. ns. from عُقْمٌ and its syn. عَقْمٌ, both inf. ns. accord. to the S and K,] or عُقْمِىٌّ and عِقْمِىٌّ , with damm and with kesr, applied to speech, or language, (كَلَام,) Obscure, recondite, or abstruse, which men do not know; like what are termed نَوَادِر; and so عُقْبِىّ: or such as is termed عَقِيمٌ [lit. barren], from which no verb is derived: accord. to the A, strange, or difficult to understand; the mode, or manner, of which is not known: expl. to AA by a man of Hudheyl as meaning of the Time of Ignorance, not now known: accord. to Th, old and obsolete. [Hence,] فُلَانٌ ذُو [i. e. عُقْمِيَّاتٍ or عَقْمِيَّاتٍ, app. meaning Such a one has obscure modes of expression], mentioned by IAar as said of a man اذا كان يلوى بخصمه [which I can only conjecture to mean “ when he turns his adversary in a dispute from the right point: ” the difficulty in the phrase lies in the verb, which I think to be more probably يُلْوِى than يَلْوِى: (see أَلْوَى:) what follows it is evidently بِخَصْمِهِ].

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