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أَصْلَمُ ذ A man (S) having his ears (S, Mgh) or ear (Msb) extirpated [by amputation]: (S, Mgh, Msb:) or a slave whose ear has been cut off; as also ↓ مُصَلَّمٌ : (M:) or a man who is by nature as though his ears had been cut off; and so ↓ مُصّلَّمُ الأُذُنَيْنِ: (K:) or this last is applied to a man as meaning whose ears have been extirpated by amputation; and to an ostrich as meaning that is naturally as though his ears had been extirpated; (S;) or [small and short in the ears; i. e.] because of the smallness and shortness of his ears; (M;) and it is said that when it is applied to a man, [or rather when a man is likened to an ostrich thus termed,] it means his being contemptible, or despised. (TA.) أُذُنٌ صَلْمَآءُ means An ear that cleaves to its lobe, or lobule. (M.) And الأَصْلَمُ is an appellation applied to The flea. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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