ثوم
ثُومٌ [Garlic; the allium sativum of Linn.;] a kind of بَقْل, (
AHn,
M,) well known, (
S,) abundant in the country of the Arabs; (
AHn,
M;) of two sorts; wild, (
AHn,
M,
K,) and growing in the cultivated tracts, (
AHn,
M,) or in gardens: (
K:) the former sort is called ثُومُ الحَيَّةِ, and is the stronger, (
K,) and is brought from Syria: (
TA:) each of them is heating, expels flatulence and worms, and is strongly diuretic; and this is the most excellent [property] that is therein: it is good for obliviousness, and asthma, and chronic cough, and [pain in] the spleen and the flank, and colic, and sciatica, &c.: (
K: [in which are added many other supposed uses:])
n. un. with ة. (
AHn,
M,
K.)
b2: Hence, as being likened thereto, (
M,) ثُومَةٌ signifies also (
tropical:) The pommel of a sword. (
S,
M,
K.) Whence, أُمُّ ثُوْمَةَ, said to be the name of a certain woman, may mean (
tropical:) A sword. (
M.)
b3: [Hence, also,] ثُوْمَةُ ذَكَرِ رَجُلٍ (assumed
tropical:) [The glans of a man's penis]. (
Az, in
TA voce طُرْثُوثٌ.)
b4: الثُّومَةُ also signifies The channel [or oblong depression] between the two mustaches, against the partition between the two nostrils; (
IAar,
TA;)
i. q. الخُنْعُبَةُ, &c. (
TA in art. خنعب.)
A2: ثُومٌ is also a
dial. var. of فُومٌ, meaning Wheat. (
Lh,
T,
M.) And the latter is used in the [ordinary] sense of the former. (
T.)
