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غَتِمَ

Root: غتم

Form: 1

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غَتِمَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun غَتَمٌ, He had an impotence, or an impediment, or a difficulty, in his speech, or utterance; and a barbarousness, or vitiousness, therein, especially in speaking Arabic; i. e., a want of clearness, perspicuousness, distinctness, chasteness, or correctness, therein.

def.2 غَتَمَ, said of food (طَعَام), It was, or became, wholesome, or beneficial.
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