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1 حَلَمَ حلم , (S, Msb, K, [in the CK, erroneously, حَلُمَ,]) aor. حَلُمَ , inf. n. حُلْمٌ (Msb, TA) and حُلُمٌ, of which the former is a contraction, (Msb,) [both used also as simple substs.,] He dreamed, or saw a dream or vision (S, Msb, K) فِى نَوْمِهِ (K) in his sleep; (S, * Msb, K;) as also ↓ احتلم (S, ISd, Msb, K,) and ↓ انحلم , (ISd, K,) and ↓ تحلّم . (K.) You say, حَلَمَ بِهِ, (S, K, [in the CK, again, erroneously, حَلُمَ,]) and عَنْهُ, (K,) and عَنْهُ ↓ تحلّم , (TA,) and حَلَمَهُ also, (S,) He dreamed, or saw a dream or vision, of it: (S, K:) or he saw it in sleep. (M, K.) And حَلَمَ بِالمَرْأَةِ He (a man) dreamed in his sleep that he was compressing the woman. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] حُلْمٌ and ↓ اِحْتِلَامٌ signify [The dreaming of] copulation in sleep: (K:) and the verbs are حَلَمَ and ↓ احتلم . (TA.) And [hence,] both signify The experiencing an emission of the seminal fluid; properly, in dreaming; and tropically if meaning, without dreaming, whether awake or in sleep, or by extension of the signification. (TA.) And hence, (Mgh,) حَلَمَ, (Mgh, Msb,) aor. حَلُمَ , inf. n. حُلْمٌ; (Mgh;) and ↓ احتلم ; (Mgh, Msb;) He (a boy) attained to puberty, (Msb,) [or] to virility. (Mgh, Msb.) -A2- حَلُمَ, with damm [to the ل], inf. n. حِلْمٌ, (S, Msb, K,) [He was, or became, forbearing, or clement;] he forgave and concealed [offences]: or he was, or became, moderate, gentle, deliberate, leisurely in his manner of proceeding or of deportment &c., patient as meaning contr. of hasty, grave, staid, sedate, or calm; (S, K;) and (assumed tropical:) intelligent: (K:) or he managed his soul and temper on the occasion of excitement of anger. (TA.) [See حِلْمٌ below.] You say, حَلْمَ عَنْهُ and ↓ تحلّم [He treated him with forbearance, or clemency, &c.]: both signify the same. (TA.) And يَحْلُمُ عَمَّنْ يَسُبُّهُ [He treats with forbearance, or clemency, &c., him who reviles him]. (TA in art. حمل.) -A3- حَلِمَ, aor. حَلَمَ , (K,) inf. n. حَلَمٌ, (TA,) He (a camel) had [upon him] many ticks, such as are termed حَلَم. (K.) ― -b2- Also the same verb, (S, K,) with the same inf. n., (S,) It (a hide, or skin,) had in it worms, such as are termed حَلَم, (S, K, TA,) whereby it was spoilt and perforated, (S, TA,) so that it became useless. (TA.) A poet says, (S,) namely, El-Weleed Ibn-'Okbeh, TA,) “ فَإِِنَّكَ وَالكِتَابَ إِِلَى عَلِىٍّ
كَذَابِغَةٍ وَقَدْ حَلِمَ الأَدِيمُ
” [For verily thou, as to the letter, or writing, to 'Alee, art like a woman tanning when the hide has become spoilt and perforated by worms]: (S, TA:) he was urging Mo'áwiyeh to contend in battle with 'Alee, [as though] saying to him, Thou labourest to rectify a matter that has become completely corrupt, like this woman who tans the hide that has become perforated and spoilt by the حَلَم. (TA.) [The latter hemistich of this verse is a prov.: see Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 346.] -A4- حَلَمَهُ, (K,) inf. n. حَلْمٌ, (TA,) He plucked the حَلَم from it; [app., accord. to the K, the worms thus called from a hide, or skin;] as also ↓ حلّمهُ : (K:) or, accord. to Az, he took from him, namely, a camel, the [ticks called] حَلَم. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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