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شَتِيمٌ ذ : see مَشْتُومٌ. ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) Displeasing, or hateful, in countenance; (S, K;) applied to a man, and to a lion; (S;) and to an ass, as meaning thus, and foul, or ugly: (TA:) or to a lion as meaning (tropical:) grim-faced; or stern, austere, or morose, in countenance; as also ↓ مُشَتَّمٌ ; and ↓ شَتَّامَةٌ ; (K, TA;) the last like جَبَّانَةٌ [in measure, but in the CK written شَتامَة]. (TA.) One says, فُلَانٌ شَتِيمُ المُحَيَّا (assumed tropical:) Such a one is displeasing, or hateful, in countenance. (S.) -A2- Also, and ↓ شِتَامٌ , An obstruction (سُدَّة) of the fauces, combined with foulness, or ugliness, of face. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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