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لم

1 لَمَّ ا@للّٰهُ شَعَثَهُ ذ God rectified, or repaired, and consolidated, what was disorganized, disordered, or unsettled, of his affairs. (S.) 2 لَمَّمَ ذ He made a لِمَّة of his hair. (Z, TA in art. جم.) 4 أَلَمَّ بِالقَوْمِ ذ He came to the people, and alighted at their abode as a guest. (Msb.) See أَطَافَ. ― -b2- And hence, أَلَمَّ بِالمَعْنَى (assumed tropical:) He knew the meaning. (Msb.) ― -b3- And أَلَمَّ بَالذَّنْبِ (assumed tropical:) He committed the sin, or offence. (Msb.) ― -b4- And أَلَمَّ He, or it, visited covertly; (Ham, p. 23;) or in a light, slight, or hasty manner. (Idem, pp. 385 and 815.) It became near. (Msb.) ― -b5- It happened. (Ham, p. 385.) ― -b6- أَلَمَّ بِهِ He came to him. (Ham, p. 127.) ― -b7- I. q. زَارَهُ غِبًّا; as also أَلَمَّ عَلَيْهِ. (TA.) 8 اِلْتَمَّ ذ It was collected, accumulated. ― -b2- التمّوا They collected themselves; congregated. لَمْ ذ with an aor. following it is often to be rendered in English by the preterperfect: ex., لَمْ أَرَهُ مُذُ يَوْمَانِ I have not seen him for two days. ― -b2- لَمْ يَضْرِبْ He did not beat. (S, &c.) See also لَمَّا. ― -b3- أَلَمْ: see the latter half of art. أَلَا; and the former part of art. أَمَا. ― -b4- لَمَّا as a particle of exception [is equivalent to our But; meaning both except and, after an oath or the like, only, or nothing more than; and] is put before a nominal proposition; as, إِِنْ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ لَمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌ [There is not any soul but over it is a guardian, (Kur lxxxvi. 4,)] accord. to those who pronounce the م with teshdeed: and before a verb which is literally, but not in meaning, a preterite; as in أَنْشُدُكَ ا@للّٰهَ لَمَّا فعَلْتَ [I conjure, or beg, or beseech, thee by God but that thou do such a thing], i. e. مَا أَسْأَلُكَ إَِلَّا فِعْلَكَ [I do not ask of thee anything save thy doing such a thing]. (Mughnee.) See its syn. إِِلَّا. In the Kur xxxviii. 13, accord. to one reading, it occurs before a verb which is a preterite literally and in meaning. ― -b5- لَمَّا, accord. to Ibn-Málik, is syn. with إِِذْ: [and sometimes, like إِِذْ, it means Since, or because:] one may say, لَمَّا أَكْرَمْتَنِى أَمْسِ أَكْرَمْتُكَ اليَوْمَ: but this is said to mean لَهَّا ثَبَتَ اليَوْمَ إِِكْرَامُكَ لِى أَمْسِ أَكْرَمْتُكَ. (Mughnee.) See also an ex. voce رَزَقَ. ― -b6- لَمَّا يَضْرِبْ He has not yet beaten. (S, &c.) See also لَمْ. لَمَمٌ ذ A slight insanity or diabolical possession; (Mgh, Msb:) a slight taint or infection of insanity. See طَيْفٌ. لَمَّةٌ ذ A touch, or somewhat [of a taint or an infection of insanity], from the jinn. (S, K.) See لَمَمٌ. لِمَّةٌ ذ Hair that descends below the lobe of the ear. (S, K.) But see وَفْرَةٌ: and see a tropical use of it in a verse of Kumeyt cited in art. حف, p. 597 c. مِلَمٌّ ذ : see مِثَمٌّ. مُلِمَّةٌ ذ A misfortune that befalls in the present world. (S.) See an ex. in a verse cited voce حَجَا. مُلَمَّمٌ ذ A boy having a لِمَّة. (IDrd, TA, voce مُجَمَّمٌ.)

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