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5 تحلّم حلم تحلم : see 1, first and second sentences. ― -b2- Also He affected, or pretended, to dream, or see a vision in sleep: whence, in a trad., تَحَلَّمَ مَا لَمْ يَحْلُمْ [He affected, or pretended, to have dreamed that which he did not dream]. (TA.) And He asserted himself falsely to have dreamed, or seen a vision in sleep. (TA.) And تحلّم الحُلْمَ i. q. اِسْتَعْمَلَهُ [He feigned the dream; or made use of it as a pretext]. (K.) -A2- He affected, or endeavoured to acquire, (تَكَلَّفَ) [the quality termed] الحِلْم [i. e. forbearance, or clemency, &c.]. (S, K.) A poet says, “ تَحَلَّمْ عَنِ الأَدْنَيْنَ وَا@سْتَبْقِ وُدَّهُمْ
وَلَنْ تَسْتَطِيعَ الحِلْمَ حَتَّى تَحَلَّمَا
” [Endeavour thou to treat with forbearance the meaner sort of people, and preserve their love; for thou wilt not be able to be forbearing unless thou endeavour to be so]. (S.) ― -b2- See also حَلُمَ عَنْهُ. ― -b3- [Hence,] تَحَلَّمَتِ القِدْرُ (tropical:) The cooking-pot ceased to boil; contr. of جَهِلَت (TA in art. جهل.) ― -b4- See also 6. -A3- It became fat; said of the [kind of lizard called] ضَبّ; (L in art. ملح;) and likewise of cattle: (K:) [or] it became fat and compact; said of a child, and of the ضَبّ: (S:) [or] it began to be fat; said of a child, and of the ضَبّ, (K,) and of the jerboa, and of the قُرَاد [or tick]; in the K, erroneously, جَرَاد. (TA.) ― -b2- تَحَلَّمَتِ القِرْبَةُ The skin became full. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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