non-Arabic expression, barbarism

, (S, Msb, K,) aor. , (S, Msb,) inf. n. عَجْمٌ (S, Msb, K) and عُجُومٌ, (K,) He bit it: (Msb, K:) and he chewed it: (Msb:) or he chewed it for the purpose of eating or of trial: (K:) or he bit it with the lateral teeth, not with the central incisors: (TA:) or he bit it, namely, a piece of wood, or a stick, or rod, or the like, in order to know whether it were hard or fragile: (S:) or he tried it with his lateral teeth in order that he might know, or prove, its hardness: and he bit it, namely, a gaming-arrow known for winning, between two lateral teeth, in order to make upon it a mark by which he might know it. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) (tropical:) He tried, tested, or proved, him. (K, TA.) And عَجَمْتُ عُودَهُ (assumed tropical:) I tried, tested, or proved his case, and knew his state, or condition. (S, TA.) And عَجَمَتْهُ الأُمُورُ (assumed tropical:) Affairs exercised him so as to render him strong for them, and habituated, or inured, to them. (TA.) And Kabeesah Ibn-Jábir says, " الأُمُورَ وَعَاجَمَتْنِى ↓ وَعَاجَمْتُ كَأَنِّى كُنْتُ فِى الأُمَمِ الخَوَالِى " [(assumed tropical:) And I have tried affairs, and they have tried me, as though I were of the generations that have passed away]; meaning, as though I were one of the long-lived, by reason of my many trials. (Ham p. 340.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] one says, الثُّوْرُ يَعْجُمُ قَرْنَهُ (assumed tropical:) The bull smites the tree with his horn to try, or test, it. (S, K.) ― -b4- And عَجَمَ السَّيْفَ, (S, K,) inf. n. عَجْمٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He shook the sword to try, or test, it. (S, K.) ― -b5- مَا عَجَمَتْكَ عَيْنِى مُنْذُ كَذَا means (assumed tropical:) My eye has not seen thee since such a time; (S, K, TA;) and is said by a man to one with whom his [last] meeting was long past. (TA.) An Arab of the desert is related to have said, تَعْجُمُكَ عَيْنِى, meaning (assumed tropical:) [My eye seems to know thee; or] it seems to me that I have seen thee. (TA.) And one says, رَأَيْتُ فُلَانًا فَجَعَلَتْ عَيْنِى تَعْجُمُهُ i. e. (assumed tropical:) [I saw such a one,] and my eye seemed to know him, (Lh, S, K, TA,) not knowing him perfectly, as though not certain of him. (TA.) And عَجَمُونِى (assumed tropical:) They knew me. (TA.) ― -b6- And [hence, app.,] one says, نَظَرْتُ فِى الكِتَابِ فَعَجَمْتُ, meaning (assumed tropical:) [I looked into the book, or writing, and] I did not know surely its letters. (TA.) ― -b7- See also 4. -A2- عَجُمَ, [aor. ,] inf. n. عُجْمَةٌ, He had an impotence, or an impediment, or a difficulty, in his speech, or utterance; and [a barbarousness, or vitiousness, therein, especially in speaking Arabic; (see عُجْمَةٌ below;) i. e.] a want of clearness, perspicuousness, distinctness, chasteness, or correctness, therein. (Msb.)

see 4.

see the verse cited in the first paragraph.

He made it (i. e. speech, or language, S, K, or a thing, TA) to want, or be without, or to have a quality the contrary of, clearness, perspicuousness, or distinctness; (S, Msb, K, * TA;) or [to be barbarous, or vitious, i. e.] to want, or be without, chasteness, or correctness. (K, * TA.) Ru-beh says, [in some verses very differently cited in different copies of the S,] of him who attempts poetry without having knowledge thereof, " يُرِيدُ أَنْ يُعْرِبَهُ فَيُعْجِمُهْ " [He desires to make it clear, &c., and he makes it to want clearness, &c.]. (S.) ― -b2- And He dotted it, or pointed it, (S, K,) namely, a letter, (S,) or a writing; (K;) he removed its عُجْمَة [or want of clearness, &c.,] by means of dots, or [diacritical] points, (Nh, Msb, TA,) and [the signs called] شَكْل, [but see شكل,] which distinguished it, namely, a letter, from other letters; the ا denoting privation; (Msb;) as ISd holds to be the case; (TA;) and so ↓ عجّمهُ, (S, * K,) inf. n. تَعْجِيمٌ; (S;) and ↓ عَجَمَهُ, (K,) inf. n. عَجْمٌ; (S;) for J's assertion [in the S] that one should not say عَجَمْتُ is a mistake: (K:) this last verb, however, which J thus disallows, is disallowed also by Th, in his Fs, and by most of the expositors thereof; and J confined himself to the correct and chaste. (TA.) ― -b3- And He locked it; namely, a door. (Msb.) ― -b4- نَهَانَا النِّبِىُّ أَنْ نُعْجِمَ النَّوَى طَبْخًا [The Prophet forbade us to make the date-stones to become as though they were chewed and bitten], (K,* TA,) occurring in a trad., means that when dates are cooked for دِبْس, (K, TA,) i. e. for taking their sweetness, (TA,) they should be cooked gently, so that the cooking shall not extend to the stones, (K, TA,) nor produce upon them such an effect as that of their being chewed and bitten, (TA,) and thus spoil the taste of the حَلَاوَة, (K, TA,) so in the copies of the K, but correctly, as in the Nh, the سُلَافَة [here meaning the sweet decocture]; (TA;) or because they [the date-stones] are food for the home-fed animals, and therefore they should not be thoroughly cooked, that their taste, (K, TA,) in the Nh their strength, (TA,) may not go away: (K, TA:) or the meaning is, [that he forbade] the cooking the date-stones immoderately, so that they would crumble, and their strength, with which they would be good for the sheep, or goats, would be spoiled. (TA.)

see the next paragraph.

He was unable to speak: (TA:) he was silent, mute, or speechless; (K, TA;) said of a man. (TA.) And اِسْتَعْجَمَتِ الدَّارُ عَنْ جَوَابِ سَايأِلِهَا [The dwelling kept silence from replying to its interrogator]: and Imra-el-Keys says, " صَمَّ صَدَاهَا وَعَفَا رَسْمُهَا وَٱسْتَعْجَمَتْ عَنْ مَنْطِقِ السَّايأِلِ " [Its echo has become dumb, and its trace has become effaced, and it has become in the state of keeping silence from answering the speech of the interrogator]: he makes استعجمت trans. by means of عن because it is used in the sense of سَكَتَتْ. (TA.) ― -b2- One says also, استعجم عَلَيْهِ الكَلَامُ, (S,) or عَلَيْنَا, (Msb,) meaning Speech was as though it were closed against him, or us; or he, or we, became impeded in speech, unable to speak, or tongue-tied; syn. اِسْتَبْهَمَ: (S, Msb:) and عليه الكلام ↓ انعجم; [which means the same;] syn. اِنْطَبَقَ and اِنْغَلَقَ. (K * and TA in art. طبق.) And accord. to the K, one says, استعجم القِرَآءَةَ, meaning He was unable to perform [or continue] the recitation, or reading, by reason of the overcoming of drowsiness: but what is said in the Nh and other works is اِسْتَعْحَمَتْ عَلَيْهِ قِرَآءَتُهُ i. e. His recitation, or reading, was cut short, and he was unable to perform [or continue] it, by reason of drowsiness: and it is also expl. as meaning he was, or became, impeded in his recitation, or reading, and unable to perform [or continue] it, as though he became one in whom was عُجْمَة. (TA.) ― -b3- And استعجم الخَبَرُ means The information, or narration, was dubious, confused, vague, or difficult to be understood or expressed; or was not to be understood or expressed; as though it were closed [against the hearer or speaker]; syn. اِسْتَبْهَمَ, and اِسْتَغْلَقَ. (Msb in art. بهم.)

The young of camels; (S, Msb, K, TA;) such as the بَنَات لَبُون and حِقَاق and جِذَاع: (IAar, S, * Msb, * TA:) thus far: (S, Msb:) when they have entered upon the state of إِثْنَآء, they are of the جِلَّة thereof: (IAar, TA:) applied to the male and to the female: (S, Msb, K:) pl. عُجُومٌ [app. meaning young camels of different ages not exceeding the age of the جَذَع]. (S, K.) -A2- And The root, or base, of the tail; (S, Msb, K;) which is the عُصْعُص; (S, Msb;) as also ↓ عُجْمٌ; (K;) like عَجْبٌ [and عُجْبٌ]; (S, Msb;) [each] a dial. var. of عجب; (Msb;) or, accord. to Lh, the م is a substitute for the ب of عجب. (TA.) -A3- See also عَجَمٌ. -A4- [Golius and Freytag have assigned to this word a meaning belonging to عَجْمِىٌّ.]

: see the next preceding paragraph: -A2- and that here following.

[Foreigners, as meaning] others than Arabs; such as are not Arabs; [often used as implying disparagement, like barbarians; and often especially meaning Persians;] (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ عُجْمٌ, [of which see an ex. in a verse of Lebeed cited voce رَازِقِىٌّ,] (S, Msb, K,) or this latter may be a pl. of the former: (TA:) ↓ عَجَمِىٌّ (of which أَعْجَامٌ is pl., TA) signifies one thereof; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) one who is of the race of the عَجَم; (K;) though he may be chaste, or correct, in [the Arabic] speech; (Mgh, K;) the ى denoting unity; but it is also the relative ى, and thus one may apply to an Arab the appellation ↓ عَجَمِىٌّ as meaning called thus in relation to the عَجَم: (Msb:) and one says also ↓ رَجُلٌ أَعْجَمُ [a man not of the Arabs]: and ↓ قَوْمٌ أَعْجَمُ [a people, or party, not of the Arabs]. (K.) -A2- Also The stones of dates (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and of the drupes of the lote-tree (Msb) and of grapes (Mgh, Msb) and of raisins and of pomegranates and the like, (Mgh,) or also of other things, (Msb,) or the similar stones of anything, (K,) or also whatever is in the interior of a thing that is eaten such as the raisin and the like; (S;) and ↓ عُجَامٌ signifies the same: (K:) the vulgar say ↓ عَجْم: (Yaakoob, S:) [see also غِيضٌ, in an explanation of which عَجَمٌ is evidently, I think, used as meaning the heart (commonly termed جُمَّار q. v.) of the palm-tree:] the n. un. is عَجَمَةٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) which is incorrectly expl. by AHn as meaning a grape-stone when it germinates. (ISd, TA.) -A3- Also Camels that bite, or chew, the [trees called] عِضَاه and the tragacanths and [other] thorny trees, and satisfy themselves therewith so as to be in no need of the [plants called] حَمْض. (S.)

sing. of عَجَمَاتٌ, (K, TA,) which signifies Hard rocks (S, K, TA) protruding (lit. growing forth) in a valley. (TA.) ― -b2- See also عَجَمَةٌ.

(S, Mgh, Msb, K, TA) An impotence, or an impediment, or a difficulty, (Msb, TA, *) in speech, or utterance; (S, Msb, K, TA;) and [a barbarousness, or vitiousness, therein; i. e.] a want of clearness, perspicuousness, distinctness, chasteness, or correctness, therein, (Mgh, Msb,) meaning, in speaking Arabic. (Mgh, Msb. *) [See also 1, last sentence, where it is mentioned as an inf. n.] -A2- Also, (S, K,) and ↓ عِجْمَةٌ, (K,) Such as is accumulated, or congested, of sand: or abundance thereof: (K, TA:) or sand rising above what is around it: (TA:) or the last portion of sand. (S in explanation of the former.)

: see the next preceding paragraph.