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جَمُوحٌ جموح (T, S, A, Mgh, L, Msb, K) and ↓ جَامِحٌ (Mgh, Msb) A horse that overcomes his rider, or gains the mastery over him, (S, A, Mgh, L, Msb, K,) being refractory, (Msb,) and runs away with him, (L,) or runs away so that his rider cannot govern him, (A,) or goes away at random, without any certain aim, so as not to be turned by anything: (Mgh:) or that will not bend his head: (TA:) the former epithet, (T, Mgh, TA,) and the latter, (Mgh, Msb,) applied alike to the horse and the mare: (T, Mgh, Msb, TA:) and the former has two meanings; one denoting what is a fault, for which the horse may be returned; (T, Mgh, TA;) i. e., that habitually takes his own way, so that his rider cannot turn him from it; (T, TA;) or as explained before; (Mgh;) the other meaning being quick, or swift, and brisk, lively, and sprightly; and this does not imply a fault (T, Mgh, TA) for which he may be returned. (T, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) Anything [i. e. a man or any animal] that goes at random, or heedlessly, without consideration or certain aim, not obeying a guide to the right course: (TA:) and the former epithet, (Msb, K,) or each of the two, (S, * A,) (tropical:) a man who follows his own natural desire, without consideration, not obeying a guide to the right course of conduct, (S, A, Msb, K,) so that he cannot be turned back. (S, K.) And ↓ جُمَّاحٌ [is pl. of ↓ جَامِحٌ , accord. to analogy, and] signifies (assumed tropical:) Men routed, defeated, or put to flight, in war. (IAar, K.) ― -b3- مَفَازَةٌ جَمُوحٌ (assumed tropical:) [A desert that leads one far away, by reason of its great extent: see 1, last sentence but one: likened to a horse that is termed جَمُوح]: occurring in a poem of Dhu-r-Rummeh. (TA in art. نحب.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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