Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

غَيْلَمٌ

Root: غلم

Full Definition

غَيْلَمٌ : see غَلِمٌ.
2 Also A beautiful woman.
3 And A youth, or young man, broad, in the M large, in the place of the parting of the hair of the head, having much hair; as also غَيْلَمِىٌّ .
4 مَا بِالدَّارِ غَيْلَمٌ means [There is not in the house] any one.

def.2 Also The tortoise: or the male tortoise. (S, K, TA. [In the Msb said to be, in this sense, غَلِيم, like زَبِيب.])
2 And The frog. [Or so عَيْلَمٌ.]

def.3 And The place whence issues the water in wells. (K. [See also عَيْلَمٌ.])

def.4 The word signifying “ a comb, ” and “ a [thing with which the head is scratched, called] مِدْرًى, ” is فَيْلَم, with ف, but has been mistranscribed [غَيْلَم], by Lth, as has been notified by Az.


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