جَهُمَ
Form I
He (a man) became frowning, or contracted, in face
, aor. , inf. n. جُهُومَةٌ (S, K) and جَهَامَةٌ, (K,) He (a man) became frowning, or contracted, in face; or grinning in face, with a frowning, or contraction, or a stern, an austere, or a morose, look: (S:) or he was, or became, coarse, or rough, and contracted, and ugly, in face. (K.) ― -b2- Also, said of the pubes, It was coarse, rough, or big. (TA.) -A2- جَهَمَهُ, (S, K,) and جَهِمَهُ, aor. , in both instances; (K;) and ↓ تجهّمهُ, (S, K,) and لَهُ ↓ تجهّم; (JK, K;) He grinned, frowning, or looking sternly, austerely, or morosely, in his face: (S:) or he met him, or regarded him, with a displeasing, (JK, K, TA,) frowning, or grinning and frowning, (TA,) face: (JK, K, TA:) or ↓ تجهّم signifies he showed a sour, a crabbed, or an austere, face. (TK in art. عبس.) A poet says, " ↓ الجَهُومَا ↓ وَبَلْدَةٍ تَجَهَّمُ زَجَرْتُ فِيهَا عَيْهَلًا رَسُومَا " (S, * TA,) i. e. [Many a region] that exhibits to the impotent that which he dislikes, [or that frowns upon the weak, or impotent, I have chidden therein a strong she-camel that leaves the marks of her footsteps upon the ground.] (S.) You say also, الكِرَامَ ↓ الدَّهْرُ يَتَجَهَّمُ (tropical:) [Fortune frowns upon the generous]. (TA.) And أَمَلِى ↓ تَجَهَّمَنِى (tropical:) [My object of hope frowned upon me] is said when one has not attained his object of hope. (TA.)