Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ت

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تَمَامٌ تمام (T, S, K) and ↓ تِمَامٌ (M, K) and ↓ تُمَامٌ (K) inf. ns. of 1, in the first of the senses explained above; (T, S, M, K;) as also ↓ تِمٌّ and ↓ تَمٌّ and ↓ تُمٌّ . (M, K.) [Hence,] ↓ وَلَدَتْهُ لِتِمٍّ and ↓ لِتِمَامٍ and لِتَمَامٍ She brought him forth at the completion of formation; (K, TA;) i. e., when his formation was complete: (TA:) [or, at the completion of gestation:] and, accord. to As, وَلَدَتْهُ التَّمَامَ, with the art. ال; not indeterminate, except in poetry. (IB, TA.) And وَلَدَتْ لِتَمَامٍ and ↓ لِتِمَامٍ [She brought forth at the completion of formation; or, of gestation]. (S.) And أَلْقَتِ الوَلَدَ لِغَيْرِ تَمَامٍ and ↓ تِمَامٍ [She cast the child at a period not that of the completion of formation; or, of gestation; i. e., prematurely]. (Msb.) And وُلِدَ المَوْلُودُ لِتَمَامٍ and ↓ لِتِمَامٍ [The infant was born at the completion of formation; or, of gestation]. (T, * S.) And وُلِدَ الوَلَدُ لِتَمَامِ الحَمْلِ and الحَمْلِ ↓ لِتِمَامِ [The child was born at the completion of gestation]. (Msb.) [These exs., and others following, show that an assertion of IDrd, mentioned in the M, namely, that one says, ↓ وُلِدَ الغُلَامُ لِتِمٍّ and ↓ لِتِمَامٍ , and ↓ بَدْرُ تِمَامٍ , and that in every other case it is تَمَام, with fet-h, requires consideration.] You say also, بَدْرُ تَمَامٍ and ↓ تِمَامٍ [lit. The full moon of completion]: and ↓ بَدْرٌ تِمَامٌ [lit. A complete full moon]: all meaning the moon, or a moon, when it is full, so that it shines brightly: (M, K:) and قَمَرٌ تَمَامٌ and ↓ تِمَامٌ A complete, or full, moon. (S.) And لَيْلَةُ التَّمَامِ and لَيْلَةُ تَمَامِ القَمَرِ, with fet-h to the ت, (ISh, T,) or ↓, لَيلَةُ التِّمَامِ with kesr, [which seems to be at variance with general usage,] and sometimes with fet-h, (Msb,) [The night of the completion of the moon; i. e.] the night of the full moon; (ISh, T, Msb;) which is the thirteenth night; (ISh, T;) or the fourteenth. (T.) And ↓ لَيْلُ التِّمَامِ , with kesr only, (T, S, M, K, &c.,) thus distinguished from what next precedes, (ISh, T,) as also ↓ لَيْلُ تِمَامٍ , and in like manner, لَيْلٌ ↓ تِمَامٌ (T) and ↓ لَيْلٌ تِمَامِىٌّ , (T, K,) The longest night of the year; (Lth, T, S;) the longest night of winter; (As, ISh, T, M, K;) that in which our Lord Jesus was born: (As, T:) or each of three nights of which no deficiency is apparent: (Lth, T, M, K:) or the night that is from thirteen to fifteen hours in length: (Aboo-'Amr EshSheybánee, T:) or the night that is twelve hours or more in length: (AA, T, M, K:) and any night that is long, or tedious, to one, and in which one does not sleep, is called ↓ لَيْلَةُ التِّمَامِ , or said to be like the night thus called. (IAar, T.) And الشَّهْرِ ↓ رُئِىَ الهِلَالُ لِتِمِّ [The new moon was seen at the completion of the month; showing that another month was commencing]. (T.) And ↓ أَبَى قَائِلُهَا إِِلَّا تِمًّا and ↓ تَمًّا and ↓ تُمًّا , (S, M,) three dial. vars., of which the first is the most chaste, i. e., تَمَامًا [meaning The sayer thereof refused, or did not consent to, aught save completion]; he executed, or accomplished, or kept to, his saying; he did not go back from it. (S, TA.) ― -b2- تَمَامٌ (with fet-h only, AZ, AAF, M) also signifies The complement of a thing; the supplement thereof; the thing by the addition of which is effected the completion or perfection of a thing; (AZ, T, AAF, M, K;) and so ↓ تَمَامَةٌ (M, K) and ↓ تَتِمَّةٌ . (T, M, K.) You say, هٰذِهِ الدَّرَاهِمُ تَمَامُ هٰذِهِ المِائَةِ, and هذه المائة ↓ تَتِمَّةُ , These dirhems are the complement of this hundred; or, what complete this hundred. (T.) [And ↓ تَتِمَّةُ كِتَابٍ The supplement of, or to, a book.] ― -b3- See also تَامٌّ, in two places.