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, aor. , inf. n. غَلَمٌ (Msb, K, TA) and غُلْمَةٌ; (K, TA;) and ↓ اغتلم, (Msb, K,) only the latter of which, accord. to As, is said of other than man, though sometimes said of a man; (Msb;) He was, or became, excited by lust, or appetence: (TA:) or overcome thereby: (M, K, TA:) said of a man; and in like manner one says of a girl, or young woman: (TA:) or he was, or became, vehemently affected with lust, or carnal desire. (Msb.) And ↓ اغتلم said of a camel; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and [accord. to some, contr. to an assertion mentioned above,] غَلِمَ, (S, K,) inf. n. غُلْمَةٌ; (S;) He was, or became, excited (S, Mgh, Msb, K) by lust, (S, K,) or by vehement lust, (Mgh, Msb,) to cover. (S, Msb, K.)

It (a thing) excited his lust, or appetence. (K, * TA.) And اغلم said of a beverage, It strengthened in the venereal faculty. (TA in art. اول.) -A2- See also 8, in two places.

: see 1, in two places. ― -b2- Also He (a boy) attained to the limit of what is termed الغُلُومَة [app. meaning the seventeenth year]. (Er-Rághib, TA.) ― -b3- Said of a beverage, or wine, (tropical:) It was, or became, strong in its influence upon the head. (Mgh, TA. *) ― -b4- Said of the sea, ?? It became stirred up, in a state of commotion, or tumultuous; its waves dashing together: as also ↓ أَغْلَمَ. (TA.) ― -b5- And الاِغْتِلَامُ and ↓ الإِغْلَامُ signify (assumed tropical:) The exceeding the prescribed limit, of good or of evil. (TA.)

, (Msb, K, TA,) and ↓ غِلِّيمٌ, (S, K, TA,) but this has an intensive signification, (S, TA,) and ↓ مِغْلِيمٌ, (K, TA,) [but this also has an intensive signification,] Excited by lust, or appetence: (TA:) or overcome thereby: (K, TA:) or vehemently affected with lust, or carnal desire (Msb:) [or the first may generally be better rendered in a state of excitement, or of vehement excitement, by lust and the second and third, lustful, or vehemently lustful:] the epithets applied to a female are غَلِمَةٌ and ↓ مُغْتَلِمَةٌ and ↓ غِلِّيمَةٌ and ↓ غِلِّيمٌ, (K, TA,) this last being applied to a male and to a female, (Az, TA,) and [particularly] applied to a he-camel, (TA,) and ↓ مغْليمَةٌ and ↓ مِغْلِيمٌ, (K, TA,) the last [which is ?? in the CK] being, like غِلِّيمٌ, applied to a male and to a female: (Az, TA:) and ↓ غَيْلَمٌ likewise is applied to a girl, or young woman. in the sense of مُغْتَلِمَةٌ. (S, K.) It is said in a trad., خَيْرُالنِّسَآءِ الغَلِمَةُ عَلَى زَوْجِهَا [The best of women is the appetent to her husband]. (TA.)

, with two dammehs, [a pl. of which the sing. is not mentioned,] is expl. by IAar as signifying مَحْبُوسُونَ [Persons confined, restricted, imprisoned, &c.]. (TA.)

, (S, Msb, K, TA, &c.,) written by some غِلْمَةٌ, [like a pl. of غُلَامٌ,] is expl. by a number of authors as signifying Lust, appetence, or carnal desire: and the desire, or eager desire, of [i. e. experienced by] غِلْمَان [meaning young men]: (TA:) or it signifies vehement lust or appetence: (Msb:) it is also of women, (K and TA in art. ترج,) meaning their lust, or appetence: (TA ibid.:) [and] it is used [also] in relation to a camel, signifying his lust to cover. (S, K, TA.) [See also 1, where it is mentioned as an inf. n. In the K, voce قَعِرَةٌ, it is used as meaning The gratification of venereal lust.]

[A young man, youth, boy, or male child:] one whose mustache is growing forth or has grown forth: (Mgh, K:) or one from the time of his birth until he attains to the period termed شَبَاب [meaning young manhood (see غُلُومَةٌ)]: (K:) or i. q. اِبْنٌ صَغِيرٌ [meaning a son that has not attained to puberty]: (Msb:) and also applied to (tropical:) such as is termed كَهْل [i. e. one of middle age, or between that age and the period when his hair has become intermixed with hoariness]: (IAar, Msb, K:) Az states his having heard the Arabs call thus the new-born child and also the كَهْل: (Msb:) the female is [sometimes] termed غُلَامَةٌ; (S, K;) [i. e.] غُلَامَةٌ occurs in poetry, applied to a جَارِيَة: (Msb:) the pl. of غُلَامٌ is غِلْمَةٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) a pl. of pauc., (Msb,) and أَغْلِمَةٌ, (K,) [also a pl. of pauc.,] or of these two pls. they used only the former, (S, IAth, TA,) or some of them did so, (M, TA,) and غِلْمَانٌ, (S, Mgh, K,) [a pl. of mult.,] or this is pl. of غِلْمَةٌ: (Msb:) the dim. of غُلَامٌ is ↓ غُلَيِّمٌ; (TA;) and that of غِلْمَةٌ is ↓ أُغَيْلِمَةٌ, as if it were the dim. of أَغْلِمَةٌ though [it has been said that] they did not use this last word; but some of them said ↓ غُلَيْمَةٌ, agreeably with analogy. (S, TA.) ― -b2- It is also used as meaning (tropical:) A male slave; like as جَارِيَةٌ is used as meaning “ a female slave: ” ― -b3- and as meaning (tropical:) A hireling [or servant]. (Mgh.)

and ↓ غُلُومِيَّةٌ (S, K) and ↓ غُلَامِيَّةٌ (K) The state, or condition, of such as is termed غُلَام: (S, K: *) the second is expl. by Mohammad Ibn- Habeeb as meaning the period from birth to the seventeenth year. (TA voce شَبَابٌ.)

dim. of غِلْمَةٌ pl. of غُلَامٌ, q. v. (S, TA.)

: see غُلُومَةٌ.

: see غُلُومَةٌ.

dim. of غُلَامٌ, q. v. (TA.)