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حَجَّامٌ حجام A cupper; syn. مَصَّاصٌ [lit. one who is in the habit of sucking]; (K;) one who performs the operation termed حَجْمٌ; (S, Mgh;) one who scarifies [and draws blood with the مِحْجَمَة]; (Msb;) as also ↓ حَاجِمٌ ; (S, Msb, K;) but the former is an intensive epithet [denoting frequency or habit]: (Msb:) so called because he sucks the mouth of the مِحْجَمَة. (Az, TA.) Hence the prov. أَفْرَغُ مِنْ حَجَّامِ سَابَاطَ [More unoccupied than the cupper of Sábát (the name of a place)]: for military forces used to pass by the man to whom it relates, and he used to cup them on credit, in consequence of want of employment, waiting for payment until they should return. (S: more fully explained in the K in art. سبط.)

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