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, (S, Msb, K,) aor. (Msb, K, TA) and also, (accord. to some copies of the K,) inf. n. جَذْمٌ, (S, Msb, K,) He cut it off; (S, Msb, K;) and so ↓ جذّمهُ: (K:) or جذّم signifies he cut off many things; or cut off much, or frequently: and جَذْمٌ signifies also the cutting off quickly. (TA.) [It is like خَذَمَهُ.] You say, جَذَمَ يَدَهِ, (Msb, K,) aor. , inf. n. as above, (Msb,) He cut off, or amputated, his arm, or hand; (Msb, K;) as also ↓ اجِذمِها, (K,) inf. n. إِجْذَامٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] جَذَمَ فُلَانٌ حَبْلَ وِصَالِهِ (tropical:) Such a one severed the bond of his union; as also جَذَبَهُ. (TA.) -A2- جَذِمَ, (S, Msb,) aor. , (Msb,) inf. n. جَذَمٌ , He (a man) had his arm, or hand, cut off, or amputated; was maimed of it. (S, Msb.) You say, حَتَّى ↓ مَا الَّذِى أجْذَمَهُ جّذِمَ [What is it that has maimed him of his arm, or hand, so that he has become maimed of it?] (TA.) ― -b2- And جَذِمِتِ اليَدُ, aor. , (Msb, K,) inf. n. جَذَمٌ, (Msb,) The arm, or hand, was cut off, or amputated. (Msb, K.) -A3- جُذِمَ He (a man, S, Msb) was, or became, affected, or smitten, with the disease termed جُذَام. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.)

see 1.

see 1, in two places. -A2- إِجْذَامٌ also signifies The being quick in pace, or going. (Lth, TA.) You say, اجذم فِى سَيْرِهِ, (S,) or اجذم السَّيْرَ, (K,) He (a camel, S) hastened, or was quick, in his pace, or going. (S, K.) And اجذم said of a horse, (Lh, K,) and the like, of such as run, (Lh, TA,) He ran vehemently. (Lh, K.) ― -b2- اجذم عَنِ الشَّىْءِ He abstained, or desisted, from the thing. (S, * K.) ― -b3- اجذم He decided, determined, or resolved, upon it. (K.)

see 7.

It was, or became, cut off; (S, K;) as also ↓ تجذّم: (K:) [or the latter is said of a number of things; or implies muchness, or frequency:] the two verbs are syn. [respectively] with اِنْقَطَعَ and تَقَطَّعَ. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence] you say, انجذم عَنِ الرَّكْبِ (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, cut off from the company of riders upon camels. (TA.) And En-Nábighah says, " صَدَّتْ سُلَيْمَى وَأَمْسَى حَبْلُهَا ٱنْجَذَمَا " [Suleymà has turned away, and the bond of her union with me has become severed]. (S.)

: see the next paragraph. -A2- Also A cessation of the supply of corn or other provision. (TA.) -A3- A rope cut off, or severed. (TA.) ― -b2- A man whose extremities have fallen off in pieces, piece after piece, in consequence of the disease termed جُذَام. (TA; but in this last sense, the word is there written without any syll. signs.)

The root, source, origin, or original, or the fundamental or essential or principal part, syn. أَصْل, (S, Msb, K,) of a thing, (S, Msb, TA,) whatever that thing be; (TA;) as also ↓ جَذْمٌ: (S, K:) pl. [of pauc.] أَجْذَامٌ and [of mult.] جُذُومٌ. (K.) ― -b2- The family of a people; their kinsfolk: whence the saying, in a trad., لَمْ يَكْنْ رَجُلٌ مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ إِلَّا لَهُ جِذْمٌ بِمَكَّةَ [There was not a man of Kureysh but he had kinsfolk in Mekkeh]. (TA.) [And app. The main stock from which tribes are derived: for,] accord. to some, it ranks before شَعْبٌ. (TA voce بَطْنٌ.) ― -b3- The places [or place] of growth of the teeth. (TA.) A poet says, (S,) namely, El-Hárith Ibn-Waaleh, (TA,) " اَلْآنَ لَمَّا ٱبْيَضَّ مَسْرُبَتِى وَعَضِضْتُ مِنْ نَابِى عَلَى جِذْمِ " (S, TA,) [Now, when the hair in the middle of my bosom, extending downwards to my navel, has become white, and I have bitten upon the place of growth of my canine tooth]: i. e., I have become old, and eaten upon the جذم of my ناب. (TA.) ― -b4- The lower, or lowest, part, or the foundation, of a wall: (Mgh from a trad.:) or the remains thereof: or a portion thereof. (TA.) ― -b5- See also جِذْمَةٌ.

Quick; swift. (K.)

The place of the arm, or hand, where it is cut off, or amputated; as also ↓ جَذَمَةٌ. (K.)

The defect, or deficiency, of him who has had his arm, or hand, amputated, or who has lost the end-joints of his fingers: so accord. to the copies of the K: but in the L, the defect, or deficiency [resulting] from the amputation of the arm or hand (مِنَ الإِجْذَامِ.) (TA.) -A2- مَا سَمِعْتُ لَهُ جُذْمَةً, with damm, meaning [I heard him not utter] a word, is not of established authority. (ISd, TA.)

A piece cut off (S, K) of a rope &c., (S,) or of a thing of which the extremity has been cut off, the lower, or principal, part remaining; (K;) as also ↓ جِذْمٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- A whip: (S, K:) because it becomes cut by that which is beaten with it. (TA.) ― -b3- The part of a whip of which the slender extremity has become much cut [by use], the lower, or principal, part remaining; pl. جِذَمٌ: (L, TA:) or the remaining part of a whip; its lower, or principal, portion. (As, TA.) ― -b4- A thick piece of wood, having fire at the end of it or not; [i. e. a brand, or fire-brand;] like جِذْوَةٌ. (AO, S and TA in art. جذو.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) A company of men [as though cut off from others]. (TA.)

: see جَذْمَهٌ. ― -b2- Also The uppermost pith of the palm-tree; which is the best; (K;) like جَذَبَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- And Dates that come forth upon one base. (TA.)