Core sense — I made breadgenerated
Fr said that this phrase was heard from the Arabs with this meaning.
I made bread, or the bread.
Core sense — wheat; bread; garlicgenerated
The word occurs in the Kur 2:58, and is explained as meaning the same as ثُومٌ [which generally means Garlic; but is said to have also the meaning here next following].
It is said to be a dialectal variant of that word, but apparently, if it means “garlic”, it is formed, as IJ says, by the substitution of ف for ث.
'Abd-Allah [Ibn-Mes'ood] read, in the passage of the Kur just cited, وَثُومِهَا instead of وَفُومِهَا.
It is also explained as meaning wheat, which Lh says is a meaning of ثُوم and of فُوم.
If Ibn-Mes'ood read the word as ثوم, the meaning is فوم, that is, “wheat”.
Fr: it is an old word with this meaning, and it also means bread.
Zj says that the lexicologists do not differ about its having the first of these two meanings, that it is said to have the second also, and that it also means the other grains, besides wheat, from which bread is made [which last meaning is also mentioned in the K]. IJ holds that it is rightly explained as having the first of these three meanings (that is, “wheat”) and the last of them.
This is of the dialect of Syria.
Or a great gobbet of food. (K: [for أَوْ لُقْمَةٍ عَظِيمَةٍ in the CK, I read او لُقْمَةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ, as in other copies of the K.])
In the dialect of Azd-es-Saráh it is applied to ears of corn.
The ism waḥda, as explained by IDrd.
فُومٌ has فُومَانٌ [of the measure فُعْلَنَانٌ] for a plural, this being in effect a plural of a plural; mentioned by IJ, who says that the ḍammeh in فُومٌ is different from the ḍammeh in فُومَانٌ.
And remember ye said: "O Moses! we cannot endure one kind of food (always); so beseech thy Lord for us to produce for us of what the earth groweth, -its pot-herbs, and cucumbers, Its garlic, lentils, and onions." He said: "Will ye exchange the better for the worse? Go ye down to any town, and ye shall find what ye want!" They were covered with humiliation and misery; they drew on themselves the wrath of Allah. This because they went on rejecting the Signs of Allah and slaying His Messengers without just cause. This because they rebelled and went on transgressing.Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’ān (1934)
And remember ye said: "O Moses! we cannot endure one kind of food (always); so beseech thy Lord for us to produce for us of what the earth groweth, -its pot-herbs, and cucumbers, Its garlic, lentils, and onions." He said: "Will ye exchange the better for the worse? Go ye down to any town, and ye shall find what ye want!" They were covered with humiliation and misery; they drew on themselves the wrath of Allah. This because they went on rejecting the Signs of Allah and slaying His Messengers without just cause. This because they rebelled and went on transgressing.
Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.
Core sense — an ear of corn; a thing carried between two fingersgenerated
See the preceding entry, near the end.
Also: a thing that one carries between his two fingers.
Core sense — they cut the sheep, or goat, into a number of piecesgenerated
[They cut the sheep, or goat,] into a number of pieces.
Like فُؤَمًا.
Core sense — a seller of wheat, or of chick-peas; a seller of fruitgenerated
Altered from فُومِىٌّ: a seller of فُوم, apparently in any of its senses, but according to the TA as meaning wheat, or chick-peas.
Or a seller of fruit.
Az: الفَامِىُّ means السُّكَّرِىُّ, the one whom the vulgar call البَيَّاعُ [generally signifying the seller, or vender; perhaps here meaning the seller of sugar, though I do not find السُّكَّرِىُّ anywhere explained in this way]. But he says, “I do not think it genuine Arabic.”