ḥālim

dreamer

حالِم

Word

Noun · pattern فاعِل

Root

ح ل م

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فإن أبا حيان التوحيدي، من المفكرين المسلمين المبدعين، ضرب بسهم في كل علم من علوم عصره، مثقف متمرد على مواضعات عصره، الحالم بالانتقال إلى عالم واعد.

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Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • حَلَمَ Form I He dreamed, or saw a dream or vision
    , (S, Msb, K, [in the CK, erroneously, حَلُمَ,]) aor. , inf. n. حُلْمٌ (Msb, TA) and حُلُمٌ, of which the former is a contraction, (Msb,) [both used also as simple substs.,] He dreamed, or saw a dream or vision (S, Msb, K) فِى نَوْمِهِ (K) in his sleep; (S, * Msb, K;) as also ↓ احتلم (S, ISd, Msb, K,) and ↓ انحلم, (ISd, K,) and ↓ تحلّم. (K.) You say, حَلَمَ بِهِ, (S, K, [in the CK, again, erroneously, حَلُمَ,]) and عَنْهُ, (K,) and عَنْهُ ↓ تحلّم, (TA,) and حَلَمَهُ also, (S,) He dreamed, or saw a dream or vision, of it: (S, K:) or he saw it in sleep. (M, K.) And حَلَمَ بِالمَرْأَةِ He (a man) dreamed in his sleep that he was compressing the woman. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] حُلْمٌ and ↓ اِحْتِلَامٌ signify [The dreaming of] copulation in sleep: (K:) and the verbs are حَلَمَ and ↓ احتلم. (TA.) And [hence,] both signify The experiencing an emission of the seminal fluid; properly, in dreaming; and tropically if meaning, without dreaming, whether awake or in sleep, or by extension of the signification. (TA.) And hence, (Mgh,) حَلَمَ, (Mgh, Msb,) aor. , inf. n. حُلْمٌ; (Mgh;) and ↓ احتلم; (Mgh, Msb;) He (a boy) attained to puberty, (Msb,) [or] to virility. (Mgh, Msb.) -A2- حَلُمَ, with damm [to the ل], inf. n. حِلْمٌ, (S, Msb, K,) [He was, or became, forbearing, or clement;] he forgave and concealed [offences]: or he was, or became, moderate, gentle, deliberate, leisurely in his manner of proceeding or of deportment &c., patient as meaning contr. of hasty, grave, staid, sedate, or calm; (S, K;) and (assumed tropical:) intelligent: (K:) or he managed his soul and temper on the occasion of excitement of anger. (TA.) [See حِلْمٌ below.] You say, حَلْمَ عَنْهُ and ↓ تحلّم [He treated him with forbearance, or clemency, &c.]: both signify the same. (TA.) And يَحْلُمُ عَمَّنْ يَسُبُّهُ [He treats with forbearance, or clemency, &c., him who reviles him]. (TA in art. حمل.) -A3- حَلِمَ, aor. , (K,) inf. n. حَلَمٌ, (TA,) He (a camel) had [upon him] many ticks, such as are termed حَلَم. (K.) ― -b2- Also the same verb, (S, K,) with the same inf. n., (S,) It (a hide, or skin,) had in it worms, such as are termed حَلَم, (S, K, TA,) whereby it was spoilt and perforated, (S, TA,) so that it became useless. (TA.) A poet says, (S,) namely, El-Weleed Ibn-'Okbeh, TA,) " فَإِنَّكَ وَالكِتَابَ إِلَى عَلِىٍّ كَذَابِغَةٍ وَقَدْ حَلِمَ الأَدِيمُ " [For verily thou, as to the letter, or writing, to 'Alee, art like a woman tanning when the hide has become spoilt and perforated by worms]: (S, TA:) he was urging Mo'áwiyeh to contend in battle with 'Alee, [as though] saying to him, Thou labourest to rectify a matter that has become completely corrupt, like this woman who tans the hide that has become perforated and spoilt by the حَلَم. (TA.) [The latter hemistich of this verse is a prov.: see Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 346.] -A4- حَلَمَهُ, (K,) inf. n. حَلْمٌ, (TA,) He plucked the حَلَم from it; [app., accord. to the K, the worms thus called from a hide, or skin;] as also ↓ حلّمهُ: (K:) or, accord. to Az, he took from him, namely, a camel, the [ticks called] حَلَم. (TA.)
  • حلّمهُ Form II He made him to be forbearing, or clement
    , (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَحْلِيمٌ (S, K) and حِلَّامٌ, like كِذَّابٌ, (K,) signifies جَعَلَهُ حَلِيمًا [i. e. He made him to be forbearing, or clement, &c.; or he pronounced him to be so; or he called him so; or he held, or believed, or though, him to be so]: (S, K:) or he enjoined him الحِلْم [i. e. forbearance, or clemency, &c.]: (K:) or he attributed to him الحِلْم. (Mgh, Msb.) -A2- حلم [so in the TA, evidently حلّم, (see 5, its quasi-pass.,)] also signifies It fattened a lamb, or kid; said of sucking. (TA.) ― -b2- And He filled a skin. (TA.) -A3- See also 1, last sentence.
  • احلمت Form IV She (a woman) brought forth
    She (a woman) brought forth حُلَمَآء [i. e. children that were forbearing, or clement, &c.]. (K.)
  • تحلّم Form V He affected, or pretended, to dream, or see a vision in sleep
    : see 1, first and second sentences. ― -b2- Also He affected, or pretended, to dream, or see a vision in sleep: whence, in a trad., تَحَلَّمَ مَا لَمْ يَحْلُمْ [He affected, or pretended, to have dreamed that which he did not dream]. (TA.) And He asserted himself falsely to have dreamed, or seen a vision in sleep. (TA.) And تحلّم الحُلْمَ i. q. اِسْتَعْمَلَهُ [He feigned the dream; or made use of it as a pretext]. (K.) -A2- He affected, or endeavoured to acquire, (تَكَلَّفَ) [the quality termed] الحِلْم [i. e. forbearance, or clemency, &c.]. (S, K.) A poet says, " تَحَلَّمْ عَنِ الأَدْنَيْنَ وَٱسْتَبْقِ وُدَّهُمْ وَلَنْ تَسْتَطِيعَ الحِلْمَ حَتَّى تَحَلَّمَا " [Endeavour thou to treat with forbearance the meaner sort of people, and preserve their love; for thou wilt not be able to be forbearing unless thou endeavour to be so]. (S.) ― -b2- See also حَلُمَ عَنْهُ. ― -b3- [Hence,] تَحَلَّمَتِ القِدْرُ (tropical:) The cooking-pot ceased to boil; contr. of جَهِلَت (TA in art. جهل.) ― -b4- See also 6. -A3- It became fat; said of the [kind of lizard called] ضَبّ; (L in art. ملح;) and likewise of cattle: (K:) [or] it became fat and compact; said of a child, and of the ضَبّ: (S:) [or] it began to be fat; said of a child, and of the ضَبّ, (K,) and of the jerboa, and of the قُرَاد [or tick]; in the K, erroneously, جَرَاد. (TA.) ― -b2- تَحَلَّمَتِ القِرْبَةُ The skin became full. (TA.)
  • تحالم Form VI He made a show of having
    He made a show of having الحِلْم [i. e. forbearance, or clemency, &c.], not having it; (S, TA; *) and ↓ تحلّم [in like manner] signifies [sometimes] he made a show of الحِلْم; expl. by أَظْهَرَ الحِلْمَ. (TA in art. فصح.)
  • إِنْحَلَمَ Form VII Open entry
    see 1.
  • إِحْتَلَمَ Form VIII Open entry
    see 1, in four places.
  • حَلْمٌ Open entry
    : see حِلْمٌ.
  • حُلْمٌ A dream, or vision in sleep
    an inf. n. of حَلَمَ; as also ↓ حُلُمٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- And A dream, or vision in sleep; (S, K;) as also ↓ حُلُمٌ: (K:) accord. to most of the lexicologists, as well as F, syn. with رُوأْيَا: or it is specially such as is evil; and روأيا is the contr.: this is corroborated by the trad., الرُّوأْيَا مِنَ ٱللّٰهِ وَالحُلْمُ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ [The روأيا is from God, and the حلم is from the Devil]: (MF:) and by the phrase, in the Kur [xii. 44 and xxi. 5], أَضْغَاثُ أَحْلَامٍ [The confused circumstances of dreams, or of evil dreams]: but each is used in the place of the other: (TA:) أَحْلَامٌ is the pl. (K.) ― -b3- أَحْلَامُ نَايأِمٍ [lit. The dreams of a sleeper;] a kind of thick cloths, or garments, (IKh, Z, TA,) striped, of the people of El-Medeeneh. (Z, TA.)
  • حِلْمٌ Forbearance; clemency
    [Forbearance; clemency;] the quality of forgiving and concealing [offences]: (Msb:) or moderation; gentleness; deliberateness; a leisurely manner of proceding, or of deportment, &c.; patience, as meaning contr. of hastiness: gravity; staidness; sedateness; calmness: syn. أَنَاةٌ: (S, K:) or these qualities with power or ability [to exercise the contrary qualities]; expl. by أَنَاةٌ and سُكُونٌ with قُدْرَةٌ and قُوَّةٌ: (Kull p. 167:) or the management of one's soul and temper on the occasion of excitement of anger: (TA:) or tranquillity on the occasion of emotion of anger: or delay in requiting the wrongdoer: (KT:) it is described by the term ثِقَلٌ, or gravity; like as its contr. [سَفَهٌ] is described by the terms خِقَّةٌ and عَجَلٌ, or levity, or lightness, and hastiness: (TA in art. رجح:) also (assumed tropical:) intelligence; (K;) which is not its proper signification, but a meaning assigned because it is one of the results of intelligence: and ↓ حَلْمٌ, with fet-h, is likewise said to have this last meaning; but this requires consideration: (TA:) the former is one of those inf. ns. that are [used as simple substs., and therefore] pluralized: (ISd, TA:) the pl. [of pauc.] is أَحْلَامٌ and [of mult.] حُلُومٌ. (K.) Hence, in the Kur [lii. 32], أَمْ تَأْمُرُهُمْ أَحْلَامُهُمْ بِهٰذَا (K,) said to mean (assumed tropical:) Do their understandings enjoin them this? (TA.) And أُولُو الأَحْلَامِ, occurring in a trad., means (assumed tropical:) Persons of understanding. (TA.)
  • حَلَمٌ Open entry
    : see حَلَمَةٌ, in two places.
  • حَلِمٌ having
    A camel having [upon him] many ticks, such as are called حَلَم. (K.) And A camel spoilt by the abundance of those ticks that were upon him. (TA.) ― -b2- Also A hide, or skin, spoilt and perforated by [the worms termed] حَلَم: and ↓ حَلِيمٌ, [in like manner,] a hide, or skin, spoilt by the حَلَم before it is stripped off. (TA.) And عَنَاقٌ حَلِمَةٌ A she-kid whose skin has been spoilt by the حَلَم; (K, * TA;) as also ↓ تَحْلِمَةٌ, of which the pl. is تَحَالِمُ: (K:) the pl. of حَلِمَةٌ is حِلَامٌ. (TA.)

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