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5 تحتّم حتم تحتم ٱحتمى He made a thing to be necessary, or unavoidable. (K, * TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, perhaps,] تحتّم لِفُلَانٍ بِخَيْرٍ He wished such a one good: or he augured good for him. (K.) ― -b3- See also 7. -A2- [It (a thing that was eaten) was soft, yielding, crummy, or easily broken.] It is said in the S that التَّحَتُّمُ signifies الهَشَاشَةُ: but in a marginal note it is stated that there is an omission in this explanation, the right rendering being هشاشة الشَّىْءِ المأْكُولِ. (TA.) One says, هُوَ ذُو تَحَتُّمٍ [It is soft, yielding, crummy, or easily broken: explained in the K by هَشَاشٌ, which is evidently a mistranscription for هَشَاشٌ, syn. with هَشٌّ]. (S, K.) And هُوَ غَضُّ المُتَحَتَّمِ [It is fresh, juicy, sappy, or moist, in its soft, yielding, crummy, or crumbling, nature; مُتَحَتَّمٌ being a regular inf. n.] (S, K.) ― -b2- It (a ثُؤْلُول [or wart] when it had become dry) crumbled, or broke into small bits. (TA.) And It (a glass vessel) broke in pieces, one part upon another. (TA.) ― -b3- He ate a thing that was soft, yielding, crummy, or easily broken, in his mouth. (Lth, K.) ― -b4- He ate the حُتَامَة, i. e., the food that remained upon the table, or what fell from it during eating, (K, TA,) of the crumbs of bread &c. (TA.) It is said in a trad. that he who eats and does this will enter Paradise. (TA.) -A3- تحتّم لِكَذَا He was, or became, cheerful, brisk, lively, or sprightly, by reason of such a thing. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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