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8 اعتمّ ذ and ↓ تعمّم and ↓ استعمّ , (K,) or اعتمّ بِالعِمَامَةِ and بِهَا ↓ تعمّم , (S,) He attired himself with the turban: (S, K:) and ↓ تعمّم is also expl. as meaning he attired himself with the helmet: or, with the garments of war. (TA.) ― -b2- And [hence] one says, اِعْتَمَّتِ الآكَامُ بِالنَّبَاتِ and ↓ تَعَمَّمَت (assumed tropical:) [The hills became crowned with plants, or herbage]. (TA.) And بِهَا رُؤُوسُ الجِبَالِ ↓ تَعَمَّمَتْ (assumed tropical:) [The heads of the mountains became crowned with its light]: referring to the sun, when its light has fallen upon the heads of the mountains and become to them like the turban. (Mgh.) ― -b3- And اعتمّ اللَّبَنُ: see 2, last sentence. ― -b4- And اعتمّ النَّبتُ (tropical:) The plant, or herbage, became of its full height, and blossomed, syn. اِكْتَهَلَ, (S, K, TA,) and طَالَ; and became luxuriant, or abundant and dense: (TA:) like اغتمّ. (TA in art. غم.) ― -b5- And اعتمّ الشَّابُّ (assumed tropical:) The youth, or young man, became tall. (S.) ― -b6- And اعتمّ is said of a beast of the bovine kind as meaning (assumed tropical:) He had all his teeth grown. (As, TA. [See عَمَمٌ and عَضْبٌ.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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