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5 تخرّمت وَتَرَتُهُ تخرمت وترته تخرمت وترتة : see 1, last sentence but one. تخرّمت الخُرْزَةُ (K, TA, in the CK [erroneously] خَرَمَهَا,) The suture, or seam, of a skin cracked, or became torn without separating; quasi-pass. of خَرَمَهَا [q. v.]. (K, TA.) ↓ انخرم [in like manner] signifies It became slit; said of the bore of the ear. (S.) And you say also, تخرّم الزَّنْدُ [The wooden instrument for producing fire cracked, or split]. (TA.) Hence the phrase, أَرَاكَ يَتَخَرَّمُ زَنْدُكَ, mentioned by IAar, meaning (assumed tropical:) I see thee to have no good in thee: for when the زند cracks, or splits, (إِِذَا تَخَرَّمَ,) one cannot produce fire by mean of it, and there is no good in it. (TA.) [Hence likewise,] تخرّم زَنْدُهُ means also (tropical:) His anger became appeased: [or,] accord. to the S, تخرّم زَبَدُهُ has this meaning: and accord. to the A, تخرّم أَنْفُهُ has the same meaning. (TA.) Accord. to IAar, (TA,) جَآءَنَا فُلَانٌ يَتَخَرَّمُ زَبَدُهُ means (tropical:) Such a one came to us doing to us that which was wrongful, or injurious, and foolish, or stupid. (K, * TA.) -A2- See also 8, in two places. -A3- تخرّم also signifies He followed, or adopted, the religion of the خُرَّمِيَّة. (S, K, TA: in the CK, the مَخْرِمِيَّة.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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