هِمَّةٌ
Root: هم
Full Definition
هِمَّةٌ
A thing that one meditates, purposes, or intends to do; or that one desires to do; or endeavours to do; a purpose; an intention; or an object of desire, or of endeavour; as also
هَمَّةٌ .
2 هِمَّةٌ [Ambition; particularly of a high kind;] a faculty firmly rooted in the soul, seeking high things, and fleeing from base things. See بَعِيدُ, and هَمٌّ.
3 هِمَّةٌ [Mind; purpose; aspiration; desire; ambition; enterprise; emprise.]
4 هِمَّةٌ عَالِيَةٌ High purpose; ambition.
2 هِمَّةٌ [Ambition; particularly of a high kind;] a faculty firmly rooted in the soul, seeking high things, and fleeing from base things. See بَعِيدُ, and هَمٌّ.
3 هِمَّةٌ [Mind; purpose; aspiration; desire; ambition; enterprise; emprise.]
4 هِمَّةٌ عَالِيَةٌ High purpose; ambition.
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