عُمُمٌ
Root: عم
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عُمُمٌ
Completeness of body [or bodily growth], and of wealth, and of youthful vigour, or of the period of youthfulness: so in the phrase اِسْتَوَى
عَلَى عُمُمِهِ, occurring in a trad. of 'Orweh Ibn-Ez-Zubeyr, on his mentioning Uheyhah Ibn-El-Juláh and the saying of his maternal uncles respecting him, كُنَّا أَهْلَ ثُمِّهِ وَرُمِّهِ حَتَّى ٱسْتَوَى
عَلَى عُمُمِهِ [i. e. We were the masters of the meaner and the better articles of his property until he attained to man's estate, or to his completeness of bodily growth, &c.]; [or] the meaning is, his completeness of stature and of bones and of limbs: also pronounced with teshdeed [or idghám, i. e.
], for the sake of conformity [with ثُمِّهِ and رُمِّهِ]; and by some, .
2 It is also pl. of عَمِيمٌ [q. v.].
2 It is also pl. of عَمِيمٌ [q. v.].
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