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شَرِيمٌ ذ A woman having her vagina and rectum united by the rending of the separation between them; syn. مُفْضَاةٌ; (S, Mgh, K;) as also ↓ شَرُومٌ , (S, K,) and ↓ شَرْمَآءُ ; (K;) or the last of these in this sense has not been heard, though mentioned in the sense here following. (Mgh.) ― -b2- Also A she-camel having her ثَفْر [here meaning the vulva, or the orifice of the vagina,] cut [or rather slit or rent]; and so ↓ شَرْمَآءُ , and ↓ مَشْرُومَةٌ : (M, TA:) or ↓ شَرْمَآءُ applied to a she-camel and to a she-ass, accord. to the Tekmileh, means having the vulva slit, or rent: therefore the first-mentioned meaning of this epithet, applied to a woman, if correct, may be tropical. (Mgh.) ― -b3- Also The فَرْج [or vulva]; (K;) because of its being cleft. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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