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خِطَامٌ خطام [A kind of halter for a camel; a cord of which one end is fastened round the nose and jaws of a camel; accord. to J,] i. q. زِمَامٌ: (S:) [but the following explanations are more correct:] a certain thing well known; so called because [a portion of] it lies upon [or surrounds] the fore part of the nose and the nouth of the camel: (Msb:) or anything that is put upon the nose of the camel in order that he may be led thereby: (M, K:) or a cord, or rope, which is put upon the neck of the camel, and folded [for يُسَمَّى, in my copy of the work from which this is taken, I read يُثْنَى, as in another explanation, below,] upon, or over, his nose: (Mgh:) or a cord, or rope, which is attached to an iron that surrounds the nose and jaws [of the camel]: (JK:) or any cord, or rope, that is suspended upon the throat of the camel and then tied upon, or over, his nose, whether of skin or of wool or of fibres of the palm-tree or of hemp: (ISh, TA:) but if of plaited leather, it is said to be called جَرِيرٌ: (TA:) or the خطام of the camel is a cord, or rope, of fibres of the palm-tree, or of [goats'] hair, or of flax, at one end of which is put a ring, then the other end is tied to it, [i. e. to the rope, as the relative pronoun in the original shows, or to some part of it,] so that it becomes like a ring [or loop], then it is put upon the neck of the camel, and then it is folded upon, or over, his nose: what is put in the nose, [attached to a ring, or the like, therein,] and is slender, is termed زِمَامٌ: (IAth, TA:) pl. خُطُمٌ. (Msb, K.) مَنَعَ خِطَامَهُ, said of a camel, means He refused to have his خطام put upon him. (TA.) And تَزَوَّجَ عَلَى خِطَامٍ means (assumed tropical:) He married two wives, so that they became like a خِطَام to him. (TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A brand, or mark made with a hot iron, upon the nose of a camel; (K;) as also ↓ خَطْمٌ : it (the خطام) spreads upon the camel's two cheeks: so says Aboo-'Alee, in the “ Tedhkireh: ” (TA:) or such a mark upon the side (عُرْض, in the CK عَرْض,) of his face, extending to the cheek, (En-Nadr, K, TA,) in the form of a line: (En-Nadr, TA:) sometimes the camel is branded with one such mark, and sometimes with two; and one says جَمَلٌ خِطَامٍ ↓ مَخْطُومُ or خِطَامَيْنِ, making مخطوم to govern the gen. case as a prefixed noun; (En-Nadr, K, TA;) and بِهِ خِطَامٌ and خِطَامَان. (En-Nadr, TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) The rope of a bucket. (TA.) ― -b4- (tropical:) The suspensory of a bow. (AHn, K, TA.) And (assumed tropical:) The string of a bow. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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