سم

he put poison into it, poisoned it, infected it with poison — said of food; and also, he gave him poison to drink.

Said of a plant, and in the same way of a man: see its ism mafʿūl, مَسْمُومٌ.

With damm [to the س].

It means the making of loops to the [girth called] وَضِين.

[See the ism mafʿūl, below.]

[And also: he adorned the وَضِين with سُمُوم, that is, strung cowries: see, again, the ism mafʿūl.]

He (a man) walked, or went along, gently.

And he (a fox) ran, [or ran in a certain manner]; maṣdar سَمْسَمَةٌ, which means the running, or a sort of running, of the fox.

Poison, or venom; deadly poison or venom; the poison, or venom, of the serpent; a certain deadly thing, well known.

Of the dialect of the people of El-'Áliyeh (Yoo), and said to be the most chaste form.

سِمٌّ is [said to be] of the dialect of Temeem, [but SM thinks it vulgar]; according to Yoo, the first form is of the dialect of Temeem, and this one is the most common of the three.

Plural سِمَامٌ and سُمُومٌ. سَمْسَمٌ means the same, in the singular sense.

[In some copies of the K, by a miscopying, سَمٌّ or سُمٌّ is made synonymous with سَمْسَمٌ in the sense of "a fox". That the right reading is the one I have followed is shown in the TA by an example in which سَمْسَم is spoken of as drunk.]

This word, and also سِمٌّ [but SM thinks the last vulgar in this sense as well as in the first].

As in the Kur 7:38; [see جُمَّلٌ]. Also the hole of the nose, and of the ear. Plural سُمُومٌ or سِمَامٌ, or both.

Also سِمَام; the singular is سَمٌّ and سُمٌّ.

Singular سَمٌّ.

Or, as some say, the سَمَّانِ, or the سَمّ, means two veins in the nose of the horse.

According to Lth, سُمُومٌ, as plural of سَمٌّ, means the channels of the tears of the horse.

AO says that in the face of the horse are سُمُوم, and that the bareness of his سُمُوم is approved and regarded as a sign of generous breed.

See the preceding entry, in seven places.

See سَمٌّ, in two places.

It is shown to be used thus as a singular by a quotation from a tradition, though it is said to come from سِمَامٌ in the sense of the "eyes" of a needle.

Or: the cleft of a woman, with the parts next to it of the haunch and of the borders of the vulva, that is, the labia majora.

Or سَمَّةُ القَلْبِ. Plural سمم [apparently سِمَمٌ or سُمَمٌ].

See سَمٌّ, last sentence.

Also a mat, or a سُفْرَة, or a thing like a wide سُفْرَة, woven of the خُوص [or leaves] of the غَضَف [a tree resembling a dwarf palm-tree]. It is spread beneath the palm-tree when the dates are cut off, and the dates that scatter fall on it.

Plural سِمَامٌ or سُمَمٌ, or, as in the T, سُمُومٌ.

See also سَامٌّ, latter part, in two places.

The اِسْت [here apparently meaning the anus]; also سَمَّةٌ.

A sort of bird, smaller in make than the species called قَطًا, like the سُمَانَى [or quail].

[According to explanations of سَمَامَةٌ in the MA, mountain-swallows; or, according to the same and Meyd, birds like swallows; according to Dmr, as stated by Golius, the same as طير ابابيل, but this is apparently said in relation to a statement of 'Áïsheh, mentioned in art. ابل in the Msb, that the birds called أَبَابِيل in the Kur 105:3 were most like swallows.]

The word is a plural, [or rather a collective noun,] and the singular [or ism waḥda] is formed with ة; plural سَمَائِمُ (Meyd). See سَمَاسِمُ.

A plural of سَمٌّ or سُمٌّ.

Of the feminine gender: a hot wind, or, as some say, a cold wind, [perhaps a mistake caused by misunderstanding the phrase سَمُومٌ بَارِدٌ, explained below,] blowing in the night or in the day, or generally in the day; but authorities differ about it, as has been shown under حَرُورٌ.

According to AO, it is in the day, and sometimes in the night; and the حَرُور is in the night, and sometimes in the day; but some say that the former is in the night and the latter in the day. (Ibn-Es-Seed in the "Fark".)

[In the present day it is commonly applied to a violent and intensely hot wind, generally occurring in the spring or summer; in Egypt and the Egyptian deserts it usually comes from the south-east or south-south-east, gradually darkening the air to a deep purple hue, whether or not it is accompanied by clouds of dust or sand (according to the nature of the tract over which it blows), and at length hiding the sun completely; but it seldom lasts more than about a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes.]

The word is used as a noun by itself, and also as an adjective [qualifying the noun رِيحٌ]. Plural سَمَائِمٌ.

So in art. برد. [See also بَارِحٌ.]

See سَمَامٌ, in three places.

And see سُمْسُمٌ.

Also a certain feather which the Arabs approve, in the neck of the horse — in the middle of his neck, or in the side of it.

And the شَخْص [or bodily form, figure, or person] of a man; or, as some say, the aspect.

A seller of سِمْسِم, like لَأّٓلٌ, which means a seller of لُؤْلُؤ.

A certain plant.

[See سَمَّانٌ in art. سمن.]

The decorations, or embellishments, of a ceiling. So says IAar; and Lh likewise, who says that he has not heard a singular of it.

[See also سَمَّانٌ in art. سمن.]

See سَمٌّ, first sentence.

It is also an adjective, of which only the feminine, with ة, is mentioned: see سَمَامٌ.

This word and its feminine, with ة: see سَمَامٌ, last sentence, in three places.

Also this word, and سِمْسِمٌ — or the latter is a mistake, [ascribed in the K to J] — red ants; ism waḥda with ة.

Or سُمْسُمَةٌ and سِمْسِمَةٌ mean a certain insect, a red ant; and so does سَمَامَةٌ.

According to Lth, an insect of the form of the اكلة [apparently a miscopying for نَمْلَة, that is, ant], of a red colour. Az says: I have seen it in the desert, and it bites, or stings, painfully.

Plural سَمَاسِمُ, said by Aboo-Kheyreh to be certain creatures found in El-Basrah that bite violently, having longish heads, with colours inclining to redness. See سَمَاسِمُ below.

[Sesame; sesamum orientale of Linn.; applied in the present day to the plant and to its grain;] a well-known grain, called in Persian كُنْجُدْ, the same as جُلْجُلَانٌ.

AHn says that it is abundant in the Saráh and in El-Yemen, and is white; [sesame, or its grain, or both, is evidently meant here, though the word also means the "fruit of the coriander"; otherwise the most commonly known meaning of سِمْسِمٌ would go unmentioned in the M.]

The grain of the حَلّ [that is, the grain from which the oil called حَلّ is pressed]; [the author of the K evidently understood this to be different from the جُلْجُلَان, which he mentions after the description of properties that follows].

It is sticky, and harmful to the stomach and the mouth; but honey makes it good; when it is digested, it fattens; and washing the hair with the water in which its leaves have been cooked lengthens and improves it.

The wild sort of it is known by the name of جَلْبَهَنْك — thus, with fet-h to the ج and ب and ه, and sukūn to the ل and ن [but written in the CK جَلْبَهَنَكْ] — a Persian word [originally جلْبَهَنْگ] arabicized; its action is nearly like that of the خَرْبَق [or hellebore]; sometimes from half a drachm to a drachm is given to one affected with palsy, and he is cured by it quickly, but a drachm of it is highly dangerous.

Also the serpent; or a certain creeping thing resembling it.

See سَمَامٌ.

See سَمَامٌ, in two places.

See سَمَامٌ, in two places.

A species of bird resembling the swallow; [but see what follows;] so explained by Th, who mentions no singular of it; and Lh adds that its eggs cannot be got. Hence the proverb:

Used when a man is asked for something that he will not find, and that will not be.

Or السَّمَاسِم is here the plural of السمسمة [that is, السُّمْسُمَةُ or السِّمْسِمَةُ], and means the red ants; so some relate the proverb. But others say السَّمَائِمِ, plural of سَمَامَةٌ [ism waḥda of سَمَامٌ], which means a species of bird like the swallow, the eggs of which cannot be got. (Meyd. [Freytag wrongly says, as on Meyd's authority, that سَمَائِمُ is the plural of سَامَّةٌ in this sense.])

In [some of] the copies of the K, السُّمَاسِمُ is here wrongly put for السَّمَاسِمُ.

See سَمَامٌ.

[Ism fāʿil of سَمَّ, as such meaning poisoning, or infecting with poison.]

In the feminine form because it is applied to things of the feminine gender (such as the عَقْرَب and the like) and to those denoted by generic nouns, which are used in a plural sense.

Such things and the like are called سَوَامُّ, which is the plural of سَامَّةٌ.

[سَامَّةٌ is also the feminine of سَامٌّ, as ism fāʿil of the intransitive verb سَمَّ, meaning "it became particular, peculiar, or special". And hence:]

السُمَّةُ, plural سُمَمٌ, means the same; and so does المَسَمَّةُ, just as المَعَمَّةُ means العَمَّةُ.

Or السُّمَّةُ means the relations, synonym القَرَابَةُ; or the particular, or choice, relations.

And أَهْلُ المَسَمَّةِ means the relations, synonym الأَقَارِبُ; or, El-Umawee: the خَاصَّة [explained above], and the relations.

[Feminine of سَامٌّ: see that word in several places.]

But this is extraordinary; the commonly known, or correct, word in this sense is السَّامُ [belonging to art. سوم], without teshdeed to the م and without ة.

A nose narrow, and fat in the nostrils.

A place of perforation, of transpiercing, or of passing through. Plural مَسَامُّ.

[Hence.] Also البَدَنِ.

المَسَامُّ, applied to the مَنَافِذ [of the body], is a term used by the physicians.

See سَامٌّ.

One who eats what he is able to eat.

This word and أَهْلُ المَسَمَّةِ: see سَامٌّ.

Applied to a girth of the kind called وَضِين: having three سُمُوم, that is, loops attached to it.

And also, so applied: adorned with سُمُوم, that is, strung cowries.

Poisoned, infected with poison; having had poison put into it: said of food.

And a man who has been given poison to drink.