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مُصْرِمٌ

Root: صرم

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مُصْرِمٌ A possessor of a صِرْمَة of camels.
2 And [hence], as also أَصْرَمُ , Having little property: or poor, [and] having a numerous household, or family. One says, كَلَأٌ تِيجَعُ مِنْهُ كَبِدُ المُصْرِمِ [Herbage by reason of which the liver of him who has little property is pained]; i. e., abundant, so that when he who has little property sees it, he grieves that he has not many camels which he may pasture upon it.
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