فم
فَمٌ ذ The mouth: (MA, KL, &c.:) it is originally فَوَهٌ, (S, K, and Msb in art. فوه,) with two fet-hahs, (Msb in that art.,) or فَوْهٌ; (so in some copies of the S;) the ه being cut off from it, the و is not susceptible of declension, because it is quiescent, therefore م is substituted for it; but when you form the dim. or the pl., you restore it to its original state, saying [in the former case] فُوَيْهٌ and [in the latter case] أَفْوَاهٌ, and not أَفْمَآءٌ [in some of the copies of the S not أَفْمَامٌ]: but when you form the rel. n., you say ↓ فَمِىٌّ ; and, if you will, ↓ فَمَوِىٌّ , combining the substitute and the letter for which it is substituted, like as they say in the dual فَمَوَانِ; this being held to be allowable because of there being therein another letter rejected, i. e. the ه, as though they made the م in this case to be a substitute for the ه, not for the و: (S, TA:) and one says also فَمَيَانِ, which, like فَمَوَانِ, is anomalous; (IAar, K in art. فوه;) but one says فَمَانِ also, as well as فَمَوَانِ: (Msb in art. فوه:) it has three forms, فَمٌ and فُمٌ and فِمٌ: (S, K, TA:) and some decline it doubly; saying in the nom. case فُمٌ, accus. فَمًا, and gen. فِمٍ; (S, TA;) like اِمْرُؤٌ and اِبْنُمٌ, which have been said to be the only other instances of the kind: (TA:) when it is prefixed to the [pronominal] ى, one says فِىَّ and فَمِى: but when to [a pronoun] other than the ى, it is declined with the letters و and ا and ى, so that one says فُوُهُ and فَاهُ and فِيهِ; but one also says فَمُهُ: (Msb. in art. فوه:) and sometimes the م is musheddedeh, (S, K,) in poetry, as in the saying, (S, TA,) of Mohammad Ibn-Dhu-eyb El-'Ománee El-Fukeymee, the rájiz, (TA in this art. and in art. طسم,) addressing Er-Rasheed, or, accord. to IKh, said in relation to Suleymán Ibn-'Abd-El-Melik and 'Abd-El- 'Azeez. (TA in art. طسم,) “ يَا لَيْتَهَا قَدْ خَرَجَتْ مِنْ فُمِّهِحَتَّى يَعُودَ المُلْكُ فِى أُسْطُمِّهِ
” (S, TA) or أُطْسُمِّهِ i. e. [O, would that it had gone forth from his mouth, so that the dominion might return] to its rightful owner; (S in art. سطم, and TA in art. طسم;) and it would have been allowable, (S, TA,) accord. to ISk, (S,) or accord. to Fr, (TA,) if he had said ↓ من فَمِّهِ , with fet-h to the ف: (S, TA:) the pl. of فم, with teshdeed, is أَفْمَامٌ; and its dim. is ↓ فُمَيْمٌ , mentioned by Lh. (TA.) MF says that many of the expositors of the Tes-heel have collected the dial. vars. of this word, compounded and uncompounded, and they have exceeded twenty; that with fet-h, they say, being the most common and the most chaste. (TA.) [See more in art. فوه.] ― -b2- [Hence,] الفم is metonymically applied to (tropical:) The teeth. (Ham p. 242.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] فَمُ الحُوتِ (assumed tropical:) The star [a] in the mouth of Piscis Australis. (Kzw &c.: see art. حوت.) And فَمُ الفَرَسِ (assumed tropical:) The star [e] upon the lip of Pegasus. (Kzw.) ― -b4- [And فَمُالرَّحِمِ (assumed tropical:) The mouth of the womb.] ― -b5- And فَمُ النَّهْرِ (assumed tropical:) The mouth of the river. (MA.) ― -b6- And [hence likewise,] فَمٌ is also used as meaning (assumed tropical:) Branch; opposed to اِسْتٌ meaning “ root. ” (TA in art. سته; in which see اِسْتٌ, last quarter.) -A2- فَمٌ مِنَ الدِّبَاغِ means The quantity that is used at one time, of tan; (Fr, K, * TA;) like نَفْسٌ مِنْهُ. (Fr, TA.) فَمِىٌّ ذ and فَمَوِىٌّ: see the preceding paragraph, near the beginning. فُمَّ ذ a dial. var. of the conjunction تُمَّ [q. v.]: (K:) or the ف in the former is a substitute for the ث in the latter: one says, رَأَيْتُ عَمْرًا فُمَّ زَيْدًا and ثُمَّ زَيْدًا, both meaning the same [i. e. I saw 'Amr: then Zeyd]: (TA:) and in like manner one says فُمَّتَ and فُمَّتْ, meaning تُمَّتَ and تُمَّتْ. (M and TA voce ثُمَّ.) فُمٌّ ذ and فَمٌّ: see the first paragraph, latter half. فُمَيْمٌ ذ : see the first paragraph, latter half.
