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حَلَمَةٌ حلم حلمه حلمة A small tick: (K:) or a large tick; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) like عُلٌّ; (S;) and said to be like the head [or nipple, when small,] of a woman's breast: (Msb:) or a tick in the last stage of its growth; for at first, when small, it is called قَمْقَامَةٌ; then, حَمْنَانَةٌ; then, قُرَادٌ; and then, حَلَمَةٌ: (As, TA:) the pl., (S,) or [rather] coll. gen. n., (Mgh, Msb,) is ↓ حَلَمٌ . (S, Mgh, Msb.) ― -b2- And hence, as being likened thereto, (Mgh,) (assumed tropical:) The head [or nipple, when small,] of a woman's breast, (T, S, Mgh,) in the middle of the سَعْدَانَة [or areola]; (T, TA;) in like manner called قُرَادٌ: (Mgh:) the little thing rising from the breast of a woman: (TA:) the حَبَّة [or small extuberance like a pimple] upon the head of the breast of a woman: (Msb:) the ثُؤْلُول [or small excrescence] in the middle of the breast of a woman: (K:) and the head [or nipple] of each of the two breasts of a man: (Msb:) the two together are termed ِحَلَمَتَان: (S:) the protuberant piece of flesh is termed حَلَمَةٌ as being likened in size to a large tick. (Msb.) ― -b3- Also A certain worm, incident to the upper and lower skin of a sheep or goat, (As, S,) in consequence of which, when the skin is tanned, the place thereof remains thin: (S:) or a certain worm, incident to skin, which it eats, so that, when the skin is tanned, the place of the eating rends: pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] ↓ حَلَمٌ . (K.) -A2- And A species of plant; (S, K;) accord. to As, also called يَنَمَةٌ: (S:) As is also related to have said that it is a plant of the kind termed عُشْب, having a dusty hue, a rough feel, and a red flower: another says that it grows in Nejd, in the sands, has a blossom, and roughish leaves, and thorns resembling the nails of a man; and that the camels suffer adhesion of the spleen to the side, and their young are cast, [for وتزل اخياكها (an evident mistranscription in the TA), I read وَتزِلُّ أَحْبَالُها,] when they depasture it from the dry branches: accord. to AHn, it is [a plant] less than a cubit [in height], having a thick, or rough, leaf, and branches, and a flower like that of the anemone, except that it is larger, and thicker, or rougher: accord. to the K, it signifies also the tree [or plant] called سَعْدَان; which is one of the most excellent kinds of pasture: but Az says, it has nothing in common with the سعدان, which is a herb having round [heads of] prickles; whereas the حلمة has no prickles, but is a well-known kind of جَنْبَة; and I have seen it: (TA:) [Dmr, accord. to Golius, describes it as “ a herb less than the arnoglossa ” (or arnoglossum), “ whitening in the leaves, and downy. ”]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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