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غَلِمٌ ذ , (Msb, K, TA,) and ↓ غِلِّيمٌ , (S, K, TA,) but this has an intensive signification, (S, TA,) and ↓ مِغْلِيمٌ , (K, TA,) [but this also has an intensive signification,] Excited by lust, or appetence: (TA:) or overcome thereby: (K, TA:) or vehemently affected with lust, or carnal desire (Msb:) [or the first may generally be better rendered in a state of excitement, or of vehement excitement, by lust and the second and third, lustful, or vehemently lustful:] the epithets applied to a female are غَلِمَةٌ and ↓ مُغْتَلِمَةٌ and ↓ غِلِّيمَةٌ and ↓ غِلِّيمٌ , (K, TA,) this last being applied to a male and to a female, (Az, TA,) and [particularly] applied to a he-camel, (TA,) and ↓ مغْليمَةٌ and ↓ مِغْلِيمٌ , (K, TA,) the last [which is ?? in the CK] being, like غِلِّيمٌ, applied to a male and to a female: (Az, TA:) and ↓ غَيْلَمٌ likewise is applied to a girl, or young woman. in the sense of مُغْتَلِمَةٌ. (S, K.) It is said in a trad., خَيْرُالنِّسَآءِ الغَلِمَةُ عَلَى زَوْجِهَا [The best of women is the appetent to her husband]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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