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نِيمةٌ نائم نيمه نيمة (as also تِئْمَةٌ, with hemz, K) A ewe, or she-goat, which her owner milks for himself, (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, K,) in his abode, (S, M, K,) of those which he has reared, (A'Obeyd, T,) not left to pasture where she pleases; (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, K;) but sometimes slaughtered, when her owner is in want of flesh-meat: (A'Obeyd, T:) or one that is slaughtered in a time of famine: (AZ, T, M, K:) or one beyond forty, until the number attains to the next amount that requires one to be given for the poor rate: (M, K:) or one that is slaughtered gratuitously, not for a compensation, when persons desire flesh-meat. (AHeyth, T.) -A2- Also A [kind of amulet, such as is called] تَمِيمَة, that is hung upon a child: (K:) app. a contraction of تميمة. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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