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أَرْثَمُ ذ ; fem. رَثْمَآءُ: see 1; and see also أَلْمَظُ. ― -b2- [Also, app., applied to a man, Having his nose much scratched, and slit, in its extremity, so that the blood issues from it and falls in drops. ― -b3- And hence,] One who does not speak clearly, nor correctly, [as though his nose were broken at the end and so closed, or] by reason of some evil affection of his tongue: occurring in a trad.: or, as some relate it, أَرْتَمُ [q. v.] (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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