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جَزْمٌ جزم [an inf.n. (see 1) used as an epithet]. You say حُكْمٌ جَزْمٌ An indissoluble and irreversible decree or ordinance, or sentence; like قَضَآءٌ حَتْمٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- A reed-pen (قَلَمٌ) having the nib evenly, not obliquely, cut. (S,* K, TA.) ― -b3- The modern Arabic character, (S, K,) composed of the letters of the alphabet: (K:) accord. to AHát, (TA,) so called because it was cut off from the character of Himyer, (K, TA,) i.e., the مُسْنَد, which they have still in El-Yemen. (TA.) -A2- A thing that is stuffed into a she-camel's vulva, (El-Umawee, S, K,) that she may think it to be her young one, [when it is taken forth,] and incline to it, [and therefore yield her milk;] like the دُرْجَة [q. v.]. (El-Umawee, S.) -A3- A thing, or an event, that comes before its time, or season: (K:) that which comes in its time, or season, is termed وَزْمٌ. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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