شأم

he (a man) was, or became, unlucky to them. Written صَارَ شُؤْمًا in the S and K, and شوم شد in the MA.

Also شَأَمَهُمْ and شَأَمَ عليهم, and شَأَمَهُمْ or شَأَمَ عَلَيْهِمْ, or both of these.

Or شُؤُمٌ as a maṣdar means being unlucky, and also making unlucky; and so شُومٌ [as it is commonly pronounced: see شُؤُمٌ below].

as in the L; in the K, شَأَّمَهُمْ, maṣdar تَشْئِيمٌ, but the first is the right one.

See the entry immediately before this one.

The headword means: take the direction of the left hand with your companions.

He desired the left, just as أَيْمَنَ means “he desired the right.”

The common people say مَا أَيْشَمَهُ.

From الشُّؤْمُ: he found him, or it, unlucky; and he became unlucky through him, or it.

See also form 6.

This form is found in some of the copies of the K.

[In the same way تشأّم بِهِ, which is often set against تَيَمَّنَ بِهِ (see an instance in Bd 17:14), is used in the K in art. عطس, and تشأّم مِنْهُ in the TA in the same article on the authority of IKh; so both these verbs seem correct in the sense given here, though the first is probably preferable. استشأم بِهِ is used in the same way in “Les Oiseaux et les Fleurs,” p. 83, as Freytag mentions, so that تشأّم به and استشأم are the opposites of تيمّن به and استيمن.]

See the entry immediately before this one.

The name of a certain country [i.e. Syria]; it is both masculine and feminine, and sometimes masculine.

It may also be pronounced الشَّامُ [as it commonly is at the present day].

Written thus with ء, but always pronounced شُومٌ, without ء; it is a maṣdar. (MA, KL: see form 1, first sentence, in two places.)

As a simple noun it means unluckiness, unfortunateness, ill luck, or evil fortune; the opposite of يُمْنٌ; the same as َحْسٌ, evil [of any kind]; synonym شَرٌّ, and particularly an evil omen.

مَشْأَمَةٌ means the same as شُؤْمٌ [or, like مَنْحَسَةٌ, a cause of unluckiness].

مَشَائِمُ is an irregular plural of شُؤْمٌ [or of مَشْأَمَةٌ, if of the former], just as its synonym مَنَاحِسُ is [said to be] of نَحْسٌ.

Said in a tradition. The sense is: if any of you has a wife whose company he dislikes, or a house he dislikes living in, or a horse he dislikes taking to keep watch on the enemies' frontier, let him part with it, by divorcing the wife, moving from the house, and selling the horse.

Or, as some say, the شؤم of the wife is her not bearing children; that of the house, its narrowness and a bad neighbour; and that of the horse, one's not going to war on it. (JM)

The headword also means black camels.

Also written and pronounced حَضَارٌ. Neither of these has a singular. Both occur in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb, but by one reading of it the word is شِيم, plural of أَشْيَمُ, so AA says.

IJ says that شُومٌ [without ء], being originally شُيْمٌ, of the measure فُعْلٌ, may also be a plural of أَشْيَمُ.

The same as [يَسْرَةٌ and] مَيْسَرَةٌ, the opposite of يَمْنَةٌ and مَيْمَنَةٌ.

Said of a man.

In the Qur'ān [56:9 and 90:19]: those who will be given their records in their left hands; or the occupants of the low, or ignoble, place or station; or those who have unfortunateness.

أَصْحَابُ المَيْمَنَةِ is explained as having the opposite senses. (Ksh and Bd in 56:9)

The headword also means a mole on the body; thus, with ء, as IAth mentions. It is also mentioned without ء in art. شيم.

Nature; natural, native, or inborn disposition, temper, or other quality or property.

Mentioned in this shape, with ء, by AZ and Lh; IJ says it is sometimes pronounced so, but the pronunciation with ء is held by ISd to be out of the ordinary. [See art. شيم.]

The headword is without ء; it is of the measure فَعَالٍ, an allowable form, without ى, like تَهَامٍ, يَمَانٍ, and شَآمِىٌّ.

One should not say شَأْمٍ; any instance of it occurring by poetic licence is accounted for as a use of the name of the country for the relative noun.

The feminine, applied to a woman, is شَامِيَّةٌ and شَآمِيَةٌ, the latter without teshdeed. The plural of شَامِىٌّ is شُوَامٌ, like غُرَابٌ [in measure].

And شَآمِيَةٌ, the feminine of the first of these; and

See the entry immediately before this one.

See مَشْؤُومٌ.

[More, and most, unlucky, inauspicious, unfortunate, or unprosperous.]

The Arabs say this, as some relate it. (Meyd) The apparent sense, according to the TA, takes “his two jaws” as the two lateral portions of the lower jaw.

As others relate it. (Meyd)

But it is said that أَشْأَمُ is here used in the sense of شُؤْمٌ [i.e. the unluckiness]; and in a similar way [the opposite] أَيْمَنُ is used [in the sense of يُمْن]: so says AHeyth. (Meyd)

The proverb means the tongue.

The feminine is شُؤْمَى.

See شُؤْمٌ, in two places:

This second form is like مَقُولٌ [a contraction of the first]. (Ksh and Bd in 56:9)

[And so شُؤْمٌ (as in an example in the first sentence of this article); this is an adjective as well as a noun, like its synonym نَحْسٌ, synonymous with مَشْؤُومٌ, as نَحْسٌ is synonymous with مَنْحُوسٌ; and apparently, like نَحْسٌ, used alike as singular and plural, since it seems to be originally a maṣdar.]

And so شَائِمٌ, or this means drawing ill luck, or evil fortune, upon his people [and upon himself].

أَشَائِمُ, a plural, likewise means unlucky, or inauspicious, the opposite of أَيَامِنُ, these being plurals of أَشْأَمُ and أَيْمَنُ. The plural of مَشْؤُومٌ is مَشَائِيمُ, which is irregular, since by rule it should be مَشْؤُومُونَ.

Meaning [an omen] happening, or occurring, with unluckiness; and in the same way طَيْرٌ أَشْأَمُ, the plural being أَشَائِمُ [as above].