surmān

dragonfly

سُرْمان

Word

Noun · pattern فُعْلان

Root

س ر م

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 2 entries
  • سُرْمٌ anus
    The anus; (IAar, T;) the place of egress of the feces; i. e. the extremity of the rectum; (S, K;) a post-classical word: (S:) or the interior of the extremity of the rectum: (Lth, TA:) or the edge, or margin, of the rectum: accord. to some, peculiarly in beasts of prey that have claws: pl. أَسْرَامٌ. (M.) Hence the phrase رَجُلٌ وَاسِعُ السُّرْمِ ضَخْمُ البُلْعُومِ, occurring in a trad., meaning (assumed tropical:) A man strong, or vehement, and violent, or wrongful or unjust or tyrannical in conduct: or a man prodigal of wealth and of blood: and therefore described as wide in the places of egress and ingress. (TA in art. بلعم and in the present art.)
  • سَرَمٌ Pain of the anus
    Pain of the anus. (K, TA.)

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