Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مُسْتَتِمٌّ

Root: تم

Full Definition

مُسْتَتِمٌّ One who seeks, demands, or requests, wool, or camels' hair, to complete therewith the weaving of his كِسَآء: so in a poem of Aboo-Duwád, where he says, فَهْىَ كَالبَيْضِ فِى الأَدَاحِىِّ لَا يُوْ هَبُ مِنْهَا لِمُسْتَتِمٍّ عِصَامُ i. e., And they are, in respect of the care that is taken of them, and in smoothness, like the eggs [in the places where the ostrich has deposited them in the sand]; there may not be found upon them to be given from them, to one who demands a تِمَّة, [even so much as] a tie for a water-skin; for they have become fat, and cast their hair.


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