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تَمِيمَةٌ تميمه تميمة A kind of amulet (عُوذَةٌ, T, S) which is hung upon a human being; forbidden to be worn: (S:) or a kind of bead: (S, Mgh:) erroneously imagined by some to be the same as مَعَاذَةٌ: (El- Kutabee, Mgh:) but as to the مَعَاذَات that are inscribed with something from the Kur-án, or with the names of God, in these there is no harm: (S, Mgh:) a speckled bead, black speckled with white, or the reverse, which is strung upon a thong, and tied to the neck: (M, K:) sing. of تَمَائِمُ and [n. un. of] ↓ تَمِيمٌ : (T, M, K:) تَمَائِمُ signifies certain beads which the Arabs of the desert used to hang upon their children, to repel, as they asserted, the evil eye: (T, Mgh:) or the تَمِيمَة is, accord. to some, a necklace (قِلَادَة) upon which are put thongs and amulets (عُوَذ): (M:) or a necklace (قِلَادَة) of thongs: and is sometimes applied to the amulet (عُوذَة) that is hung upon the necks of children: (T:) but he who makes تمائم to signify thongs is in error: El-Farezdak uses the phrase سُيُورُ التَّمَائِمِ because they are beads which are perforated, and into which are inserted thongs or strings whereby they are suspended: (T, Mgh:) Az says, I have not found among the Arabs of the desert any difference of opinion respecting the تميمة, as to its being the bead itself: (TA:) but accord. to En-Nakha'ee, the Prophet disapproved of everything hung upon a child or grown person, and said that all such things were تمائم: (Mgh:) the تميمة is [said to be] thus called because by it the condition of the child is rendered complete. (Har p. 22.)