say "ahem"

He purposed, or intended, a thing. هَمٌّ denotes more than إِرَادَةٌ, and less than عَزْمٌ. (Kull, p. 382.) ― -b2- لَا مَهَمَّةَ وَلَا مَكَادَةَ: see art. كود. ― -b3- هَمَّ بِالشَّىْءِ [He meditated, proposed to himself, purposed, or intended, to do the thing:] he desired to do the thing, (S, Msb,) without doing it; (Msb;) he endeavoured to do the thing. (S.) ― -b4- هَمَّ بِالأَمْرِ He intended the affair. or purposed it; or he desired it. (Mgh.) ― -b5- هَمَّ بِهِ فِى نَفْسِهِ [aor. ] He intended it, meant it, desired it. or determined upon it, in his mind. (TA.) See also a verse cited voce رُتَمٌ. ― -b6- هم بِالبَكَآءِ [He was about, or ready, to weep; like أَرَادَ البُكَآءَ, and تَهَيَّأَ لِلبُكَآءِ q. v.]. (A, art. جهش, &c.) ― -b7- هَمَّ بالسُّقُوط [It threatened to fall], said of a wall. (S, in art. وهى, &c.) ― -b8- هَمَّهُ and ↓ أَهَمَّهُ It disquieted him; (Msb;) caused him care, or anxiety. ― -b9- لَا يُهِمُّهُ إِلَّا بَطْنُهُ [Nothing causes him care, or anxiety, but his belly]. (S in art. بطن.)

It rendered him anxious; (MA;) disquieted him, and grieved him. (Mgh.) See عَنَاهُ.

: see a verse cited in art. ب, p. 144.

He was grieved, and disquieted, by the affair, or case: (TA:) you say اِهْتَمَّ لَهُ بِأَمْرِهِ he was grieved for him by his affair, or case. (S.) [He was, or became, anxious, disquieted, or grieved, by it.] ― -b2- He minded, or attended to, the affair: (MA:) undertook, or superintended, or managed, the affair. (Msb.) See عُنِىَ, in art. عنى. ― -b3- اِهْتَمَّ لَهُ He cared for, minded, or regarded, him, or it. (Har, p. 94.) ― -b4- اِهْتَمَّ بَلَدَ كَذَا i. q. اِعْتَسَّهُ. (TA in art. عس.)

for هَمَا for أَمَا before an oath: see the last.

and ↓ هِمَّةٌ Purpose, or intention; syn. أَوَّلُ العَزْمِ and أَوَّلُ العَزِيمَةِ. (Msb.) See Har, p. 345, and a verse cited voce طَلَّاع. ― -b2- Also the ↓ latter, Strong determination or resolution. (Msb.) ― -b3- هَمٌّ An object, or a thing intended or meant or desired or determined upon, in the mind. (K, * TA.) See an ex. voce حَمٌّ and سَمٌّ: you say, هَمُّهُ كَذَا His object is such a thing. ― -b4- هَمٌّ [Anxiety; or disquietude, or trouble, of mind; solicitude; care: or grief, or sorrow:] distress, or disquietude, affecting the heart or mind, by reason of some harm, or annoyance, that is expected to happen; differing from غَمٌّ, which signifies “ distress, or disquietude, affecting the heart or mind, by reason of what has happened: ” or both, as some say, signify the same [namely distress, or disquietude, of mind]: the difference is asserted by 'Iyád and others. (TA in art. غم.) ― -b5- هَمُّهُ بَطْنُهُ [His object of care, or of anxiety, is his belly]. (K in art. بطن.) And لَا هَمَّ لَهُ إِلَّا بَطْنُهُ [He has no object of care, or of anxiety, but his belly]. (TA in that art.) ― -b6- هَمَّكَ مَا هَمَّكَ means هَمَّكَ مَا عَنَاكَ: and هَمَّكَ also signifies اذابك. (JK.) See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 880.

A decrepit, old, and weak, or extremely aged. man. (S, Msb, K.)

: see هِمَّةٌ.

A thing that one meditates, purposes, or intends to do; or that one desires to do; or endeavours to do; a purpose; an intention; or an object of desire, or of endeavour; as also ↓ هَمَّةٌ. (JK, K.) ― -b2- هِمَّةٌ [Ambition; particularly of a high kind;] a faculty firmly rooted in the soul, seeking high things, and fleeing from base things. (Ibn-Kemál, in TA.) See بَعِيدُ, and هَمٌّ. ― -b3- هِمَّةٌ [Mind; purpose; aspiration; desire; ambition; enterprise; emprise.] ― -b4- هِمَّةٌ عَالِيَةٌ High purpose; ambition.

An aspiring king: (S, K:) a magnanimous, i. e. courageous and liberal, chief. (K.)

A wild bird of the crow kind: see صُرَدٌ.

, pl. هَوَامُّ, Any venomous creeping thing or reptile or the like, that may be killed; such as the scorpion, and the serpent: and (tropical:) a louse; (Mgh:) what has deadly venom; as the scorpion: (Az, Msb:) and sometimes, what is noxious: (Msb:) any reptile or the like, from the louse to the serpent; (AHát, Msb:) but its application to the louse is tropical: (Msb:) any venomous or noxious reptile or the like; such as the scorpion, and the serpent: the like of serpents and scorpions; because they creep (تَهِمُّ, i. e. تَدِبّ). (JK.)