regular, orderly, systematic

[He pierced:] he pierced and knotted a cord or rope: and he (a خَوَّاص) pierced and plaited [the leaves of] the مُقْل. (M.) ― -b2- نَظَمَ He strung beads. (Msb.)

He transfixed, or transpierced, him; (M;) i. q. اِخْتَلَّهُ. (S, M, K.) ― -b2- اِنْتَظَمَ It (an affair [and language, &c.]) wa. or became, rightly [or regularly] ordered, arranged, or disposed. (Msb.)

What are strung, of pearls and beads, &c. (M.) ― -b2- النَّظْمُ: see الجَوْزَآءُ.

[A standard of a thing, by which to regulate or adjust it. See voce عِياَرٌ.] ― -b2- (tropical:) The cause, or means, of the subsistence, of anything; or its foundation, or support; syn. مِلَاكٌ: (M, K: *) a tropical meaning. (TA) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) A way, course, mode, or manner, of acting or conduct or the like: custom, or habit. (M, K.) ― -b4- لَيْسَ لِأَمْرِهِ نِظاَمٌ (assumed tropical:) His affair has not a right tendency. (T.) And لَيْسَ لِأَمْرِهِمْ نِظَامٌ (assumed tropical:) Their affair has not a right way, or method, of procedure, nor connexion, or coherence, (مُتَعَلَّق,) (M, TA,) nor right tendency. (TA.) And مَا زَالَ عَلَى نِظَامٍ وَاحِدٍ (assumed tropical:) He ceased not to follow one custom, or manner of conduct. (M, TA.) And أَحَادِيثُ لاَ نِظَامَ لَهَا (assumed tropical:) [Stories having no foundation, or no right tendency or tenour]. (M and K in art. سطر.)

and ↓ نِظِّيمٌ A composer of many verses, or of much poetry. (TA.)

: see نَظَّامٌ.