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شَمَمٌ ذ inf. n. of the intrans. verb شَمَّ [q. v.]. (Msb, TA.) ― -b2- [Used as a simple subst.,] Highness of the nose: (Msb:) or highness of the bone of the nose, (S, K,) and beauty thereof, (K,) with evenness, or straightness, of its upper part, (S, K, when there is in it a gibbousness it is termed قَنًا, S,) and uprightness of the end, or lowest part: (K:) or, as some say, this last quality [alone]: (TA:) or length of the end, or lower part, of the nose, so that it extends over the middle of the mustache, (وُرُودُ الأَرْنَبَةِ,) with beautiful evenness, or straightness, of the bone, and highness thereof greater than the highness that is termed ذَلَفٌ: or length and slenderness of the nose, and a downward extending of its رَوْثَة [i. e. end or tip, or part where the blood that flows from the nostrils drops or drips]: (K:) or [simply] length. in the nose. (Ham p. 789.) ― -b3- And, in a man, The quality of having what is termed شَمَمٌ of the nose. (S.) ― -b4- [And hence, (tropical:) Self-magnification, or pride, or haughtiness: see 1, near the end.] ― -b5- And (tropical:) Generosity. (Ham p. 728.) ― -b6- Also Highness, (K,) or tallness of the head, (S,) of a mountain. (S, K.) ― -b7- And (tropical:) Nearness: and (tropical:) remoteness: thus having two contr. meanings. (K, TA.) It has both of such meanings in the phrase دَارُهُ شَمَمٌ (tropical:) [His house, or abode, is near: and, remote]: (K, TA:) and in the phrase رَأَيْتُهُ مِنْ شَمَمٍ (tropical:) [I saw him, or it, from within a short distance: and, from afar]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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