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عَمَمٌ ذ The state, or quality, of being collected together, and numerous, or abundant. (K.) ― -b2- And Largeness, or bigness, of make, in men and in others. (K.) ― -b3- See also عُمُمٌ. -A2- Also Complete, or without deficiency; applied to a body, and to a shoulder: (S:) or, applied to the latter, long. (TA.) [See also عَمِيمٌ.] ― -b2- Applied to a beast of the bovine kind, Having all his teeth grown. (As, TA.) [See 8, last sentence; and see عَضْبٌ.] ― -b3- And Any affair, or event, or case, complete [or accomplished], and common or general or universal [app. meaning commonly or generally or universally known]. (K.) ― -b4- And quasi. pl. n. of عَامَّةٌ, q. v. (K.) ― -b5- See also مِعَمٌّ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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