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عَيْمَةٌ ذ [mentioned above as an inf. n.] Desire, or eager desire, or longing, for milk: (S, K:) or vehemence of desire, or of longing, for milk, so that one cannot endure with patience the want of it. (TA.) It is said in a trad., كَانَ يَتَعَوَّذُ مِنَ العَيْمَةِ وَالغَيْمَةِ وَالأَيْمَةِ i. e. [He used to pray for protection from] vehemence of desire, or of longing, for milk, so as not to be able to endure with patience the want of it; and vehemence of thirst; and the remaining long without a wife. (TA.) ― -b2- And Thirst: (K:) or, as some say, vehemence thereof; and so غَيْمَةٌ, as mentioned above. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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