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أَجْذَمُ ذ Having his arm, or hand, cut off, or amputated: (S, Msb, K:) or having lost the endjoints of his fingers: (K:) fem. جَذْمَآءُ: (Msb:) pl. جَذْمَى. (S.) It is said in a trad., مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ القُرْآنَ ثُمَّ نَسِيَهُ لَقِىBَ ا@للّٰهَ يَوْمَ القِيَامَةِ وَهُوَ أَجْذَمُ, (A 'Obeyd, S, *) i. e., [He who learns the Kur-án and then forgets it shall meet God on the day of resurrection] having his arm, or hand, cut off: (A 'Obeyd, TA:) or having lost all his limbs, or members: (Kt, TA:) or (assumed tropical:) having his plea cut off; having no tongue with which to speak, nor any plea in his hand: (IAth, TA:) or (assumed tropical:) having his means of access cut off: (TA:) or (assumed tropical:) with his hand devoid of good and of recompense. (IAar, El-Khattábee, TA.) And in another trad., كُلُّ خُطْبَةٍ لَيْسَ فِيهَا شَهَادَةٌ كَا@لْيَدِ الجَذْمَآءِ [Every oration from the pulpit in which there is not an acknowledgment of the unity of God and of the mission of Mohammad is like the arm of which the hand is amputated]. (TA.) ― -b2- الكّفُّ الجَذْمَآءُ [The amputated hand;] (assumed tropical:) a name of the star a of Cetus; (so in the Egyptian Almanacs;) [i. e.] the star that is in the head of Cetus: so called because it is less extended [from the Pleiades] than that called الكَفَّ الخَضِيبُ. (Kzw. [See الكَفُّ الخَضِيبُ in art.خضب.]) ― -b3- نَعْلٌ جَذْمَآءُ (assumed tropical:) A sandal of which the [thong called] قِبَال [which is between two of the toes] is cut, or cut off, or severed. (TA.) -A2- See also مَجْذُومٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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