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حَمَّامٌ حمام [A hot bath;] a certain structure, (S,) well known; (Msb;) so called because it occasions sweating, or because of the hot water that is in it; accord. to ISd, derived from الحَمِيمُ; (TA;) i. q. دَيْمَاسٌ: (K:) of the masc. gender, (Mgh, K,) and fem. also, (Mgh,) generally the latter; (Msb;) but some say that it is a mistake to make it fem., (MF, TA,) though IB cites a verse in which a fem. pronoun is asserted to refer to a حمّام: (TA:) pl. حَمَّامَاتٌ; (S, Mgh, K;) accord. to Sb, [not because the sing. is fem., but] because, though masc., it has no broken pl. (TA.) See also حَمِيمٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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