عَمِيمٌ
Root: عم
Full Definition
عَمِيمٌ
A thing complete, or without deficiency: pl. عُمُمٌ. (S. [See also عَمَمٌ.])
2 Anything collected together, and abundant, or numerous: pl. as above.
3 Reaching to everything: applied in this sense to perfume.
4 Tall; applied to a man, and to a plant: and so عَمِيمَةٌ applied to a palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ); and to a girl, or young woman; as also applied to both; of which last word the masc. is أَعَمُّ : or عَمِيمَةٌ applied to a woman, or to a girl, or young woman, signifies complete, or perfect, in stature and make, and tall: pl. عُمٌّ, which is applied to palm-trees (نَخِيلٌ) as meaning tall; or, accord. to Lh, to a single palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ), and may be [thus, originally,] of the measure فُعْلٌ, or of the measure فُعُلٌ, originally عُمُمٌ: يَعْمُومٌ , also, signifies tall, applied to a plant, or herbage: and عَمِيمَةٌ applied to a بَقَرَة [or beast of the bovine kind] signifies complete, or perfect, in make.
5 One says also, هُوَ مِنْ عَمِيمِهِمْ, meaning صَمِيمِهِمْ [i. e. He is of the choice, best, or most excellent, of them; or of the main stock of them].
def.2 Also Such as is dry of [the species of barleygrass called] بُهْمَى.
2 Anything collected together, and abundant, or numerous: pl. as above.
3 Reaching to everything: applied in this sense to perfume.
4 Tall; applied to a man, and to a plant: and so عَمِيمَةٌ applied to a palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ); and to a girl, or young woman; as also applied to both; of which last word the masc. is أَعَمُّ : or عَمِيمَةٌ applied to a woman, or to a girl, or young woman, signifies complete, or perfect, in stature and make, and tall: pl. عُمٌّ, which is applied to palm-trees (نَخِيلٌ) as meaning tall; or, accord. to Lh, to a single palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ), and may be [thus, originally,] of the measure فُعْلٌ, or of the measure فُعُلٌ, originally عُمُمٌ: يَعْمُومٌ , also, signifies tall, applied to a plant, or herbage: and عَمِيمَةٌ applied to a بَقَرَة [or beast of the bovine kind] signifies complete, or perfect, in make.
5 One says also, هُوَ مِنْ عَمِيمِهِمْ, meaning صَمِيمِهِمْ [i. e. He is of the choice, best, or most excellent, of them; or of the main stock of them].
def.2 Also Such as is dry of [the species of barleygrass called] بُهْمَى.
Lane's Lexicon
+
Hans Wehr
+
Mufradat
Three dictionaries. One search.
"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."
47,000+ classical entries
Root-based navigation
Full text search
Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now
Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more