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مَجَمٌّ مجم A place where water remains: or to which it reaches, and where it ends. (TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) The breast, or bosom, or mind: (K, TA:) because it is the place in which are collected the knowledge &c. that it retains. (TA.) You say, هُوَ وَاسِعُ المَجَمِّ, i. e. رَحْبُ الذِّرَاعِ وَاسِعُ الصَّدْرِ (tropical:) [He is possessed of ample power and might, and free from distress of mind or from narrowness of mind]. (IAar, K, TA.) And إِِنَّهُ لَضَيِّقُ المَجَمِّ (tropical:) Verily he is contracted, or straitened, in mind by affairs, or events. (IAar, TA.)

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