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أَخْرَمُ ذ [Having the nose mutilated in any of the manners explained in the first paragraph of this art.]: fem. خَرْمَآءُ: see 1, in three places. ― -b2- And Having the ear perforated, when it is not slit: (S:) or having the ear slit after it has been pierced: (S and Msb* and TA in art. خرب:) and ↓مُخَرَّمٌ, likewise, signifies having the ear slit; as also أَخْرَبُ and مُخَرَّبٌ. (TA in that art.) And the fem., applied to a she-goat, Having her ear slit crosswise. (K. [See also خَذْمَآءُ.]) Also, the fem., applied to an ear, Slit, or perforated, or mutilated. (K, * TA.) -A2- Also A pool of water left by a torrent; because one part thereof passes a way (↓ يَنْخَرِمُ ) to another: pl. خُرْمٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- And the fem. also signifies Any hill, or rising ground, sloping down into a [hollow such as is termed] وَهْدَة; (K;) and so the masc.: (TA:) or any [hill such as is termed] أَكَمَة having a side whereby it cannot be ascended. (K.) -A3- أَخْرَمُ الكَتِفِ The extremity of the spine of the scapula: (S:) or a notch, or small hollowed place, [app. the glenoid cavity,] at the extremity of the spine of the scapula, (JK, T, TA,) next the socket: (T, TA:) pl. أَخَارِمُ: (JK, T, TA:) or أَخْرَمَا الكَتِفَيْنِ, in the K miswritten آخِرُ مَا فِى الكَتَِفَيْنِ, signifies the heads of the two scapulæ, next the upper arms: (K, * TA:) or the two extremities, or edges, of the lower portion of the two scapulæ, which surround, or border, the كُعْبُرَة [app. here meaning the thick part next to the inferior angle] of the scapula: and الأَخْرَمُ the end of the spine [of the scapula]. (K, * TA. [In the K is here added, accord. to different copies, حَيْثُ يَنْخَدِعُ, as in the TA; or حيث يَنْخَدِمُ, as in the CK; or حيث يَنْخَذِمُ: the right reading seems to be حَيْثُ يَنْخَرِمُ, where it forms a kind of cleft; app. meaning where it forms the glenoid cavity. In the CK, for مُنْقَطَعُ العَيْرِ, is erroneously put مُنْقَطِعُ العَيْنِ; and و is erroneously prefixed to the former noun.]) ― -b2- الأَخْرَمَانِ Two cleft bones at the extremity of the interior of the upper part of the inside of the mouth. (K.) -A4- أَخْرَمُ الرَّأْىِ (tropical:) A man weak in judgment. (JK, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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