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2 أَيَّمَهُ ا@للّٰهُ ذ inf. n. تَأْيِيمٌ, God made him to have no wife. (K, * TK.) And أَيَّمْتُ المَرْأَةَ, inf. n. as above; (Ham p. 11, and TA; *) or ↓ أَأَ مْتُهَا , like أَعَمْتُهَا; (T, S;) I made the woman to be a widow, by slaying her husband. (T, * S, and Ham ubi suprà.) Taäbata-sharrà says, “ فَأَيَّمْتُ نِسْوَانًا وَأَيْتَمْتُ إِِلْدَةً
” [And I have made women widows, by slaying their husbands; and children fatherless]. (TA.)

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