pasteurize, sterilize

His joints (S, K) of the arms and legs (S) became dry. (S, K.) [See عُقْمٌ, below.] Hence, (TA,) it is said in a trad. (S, TA) of Ibn-Mes'ood, relating to the resurrection, (TA,) تُعْقَمُ أَصْلَابُ المُنَافِقِينَ وَالمُشْرِكِينَ وَلَا يَسْجُدُونَ (S, * TA) i. e. The joints [of the backbones of the hypocrites and of the believers in a plurality of gods] shall become dry, and bound, so that their backbones shall be [as] one vertebra, impacted together in their constituent parts, [and they shall not be able to prostrate themselves.] (TA.) ― -b2- And عُقِمَتْ; (S;) or عَقِمَتْ; (Msb;) or both; and عَقَمَتْ, aor. ; and عَقُمَتْ; (K;) inf. n. عَقْمٌ and عُقْمٌ (S, K) and عَقَمٌ, (K,) or the second of these is a simple subst., and the last is the inf. n. of the second verb; (Msb;) said of the womb (الرَّحِم, S, Msb, K, TA), It was, or became, barren, (Msb,) or incapable of receiving offspring, (S, K,) in consequence of a هَزْمَة therein. (K. [See عُقْمٌ, below.]) And عُقِمَتْ and عَقُمَتْ and عَقِمَتْ are said of a woman [as meaning She was, or became, barren]. (IB, TA.) ― -b3- [Hence,] عَقُمَ خُلُقُهُ, said of a man, (tropical:) His disposition was, or became, bad, or evil. (TA.) ― -b4- And عَقِمَ, (K, TA,) inf. n. عَقْمٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He (a man, TA) was, or became, silent. (K, TA.) -A2- عَقَمَ ٱللّٰهُ رَحِمَهَا, (IB, Msb, K, TA,) aor. , (Msb, K, TA, [in the CK عَقَّمَها and تَعْقِيمًا are erroneously put for عَقَمَهَا and يَعْقِمُهَا,]) inf. n. عَقْمٌ; (IB, Msb, TA;) and (IB, K) ↓ أَعْقَمَهَا; (S, IB, K;) the former used by those who say عُقِمَتْ, and the chaste form; the latter, by those who say عَقُمَتْ and عَقِمَتْ; the two being like حَزَنْتُهُ and أَحْزَنْتُهُ; (IB, TA;) God made her womb to be barren, (Msb,) or incapable of receiving offspring. (S, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] one says, اليَمِينُ الفَاجِرَةُ تَعْقِمُ الرَّحِمَ i. e. (assumed tropical:) [The false oath] severs communion and kindness between men. (TA.)

, inf. n. تَعْقِيمٌ, (assumed tropical:) He silenced them. (K.)

, (S, K,) inf. n. مُعَاقَمَةٌ and عِقَامٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) He contended with him in an altercation, disputed with him, or litigated with him: (S, K, TA:) and vied wth him, contended with him for. superiority, or strove to surpass him, in strength, power, or force. (TA.)

see 1, last sentence but one.

In the saying of a poet, (S,) namely, Rabee'ah Ibn-Makroom Ed-Dabbee, (TA,) " وَمَآءٍ آجِنِ الجَمَّاتِ قَفْرٍ تَعَقَّمُ فِى جَوَانِبِهِ السِّبَاعُ " the meaning is تَحْتَفِرُ [i. e. the verse means Many a water, or and a water, of which the supplies are altered for the worse, and which is deserted, by the sides of which the beasts of prey dig hollows in the ground, app. to obtain water that has become purified by filtration]: or, as some say, the meaning is تَرَدَّدُ [i. e. go to and fro]. (S, TA.)

is syn. with التَّعَاقُبُ, (K, TA,) The coming to water [by turns, or] time after time; and some say that the م of the former is a substitute for the ب of the latter. (TA.)

signifies The digging a well, and, when one has nearly reached the water, digging a small well, (S, K, TA,) in the middle of the former, (TA,) of sufficient dimensions for one's finding the flavour of the water; when, if it be sweet, the rest of it is dug, (S, K, TA,) and made wide; otherwise it is abandoned. (TA.) ― -b2- Also The entering into, or upon, an affair. (TA.) ― -b3- And The overcoming [another] in a game of hazard; syn. القَمْرُ. (TA.)

and ↓ عَقْمَةٌ and ↓ عِقْمَةٌ A red [garment of the sort called] مِرْط [q. v.]: or any red garment: and the last signifies a variegated, or figured, cloth or garment; syn. وَشْىٌ: (K:) [see an ex. of this last in a verse cited voce جِرْمَةٌ:] or all signify a certain sort of وَشْى: (S:) or, accord. to Lh, the last signifies one of the sorts of variegated, or figured, cloths [that serve for the coverings] of the [women's camel-vehicles called] هَوَادِج; (TA;) as also the second; and so عَقْبَةٌ: (O and TA in art. عقب:) but some, Lh adds, say that it signifies sorts of لَبِن [evidently, I think, a mistranscription for لِبْس i. e. clothing], white and red. (TA.)

[accord. to the S and K an inf. n., but accord. to the Msb a simple subst.,] Dryness that prevents the receiving of an impression: this is the primary signification accord. to Er-Rághib. (TA.) ― -b2- [And] Barrenness of the womb: (Msb:) or a هَزْمَة [generally and properly signifying a depression, or dint, but here app. meaning a stricture, (see عَقِيمٌ,)] that takes place in the womb, in consequence of which it is incapable of receiving offspring: (K, TA:) so in the M. (TA.)

[ accord. to the TK signifies the same as عَقْمٌ as syn. with عَقْمَةٌ and عِقْمَةٌ: but this I do not find in the K.]

: see عَقْمٌ. -A2- عَقْمَةُ القَمَرِ [in the CK عَقَمَةُ القَمَرِ] The return of the moon. (K, TA, TK.) [See عِقْبَةُ القَمَرِ and عَقْبَةُ القَمَرِ, of the latter of which it is app. a dial. var.]

: see عَقْمٌ.