لم
1 لَمَّ اللّٰهُ شَعَثَهُ God rectified, or repaired, and consolidated, what was disorganized, disordered, or unsettled, of his affairs. (
S.) 2 لَمَّمَ He made a لِمَّة of his hair. (
Z,
TA in art. جم.) 4 أَلَمَّ بِالقَوْمِ He came to the people, and alighted at their abode as a guest. (
Msb.) See أَطَافَ.
b2: And hence, أَلَمَّ بِالمَعْنَى (assumed
tropical:) He knew the meaning. (
Msb.)
b3: And أَلَمَّ بَالذَّنْبِ (assumed
tropical:) He committed the sin, or offence. (
Msb.)
b4: And أَلَمَّ He, or it, visited covertly; (
Ham, p. 23;) or in a light, slight, or hasty manner. (Idem, pp. 385 and 815.) It became near. (
Msb.)
b5: It happened. (
Ham, p. 385.)
b6: أَلَمَّ بِهِ He came to him. (
Ham, p. 127.)
b7: I. q. زَارَهُ غِبًّا; as also أَلَمَّ عَلَيْهِ. (
TA.) 8 اِلْتَمَّ It was collected, accumulated.
b2: التمّوا They collected themselves; congregated.
لَمْ with an
aor. following it is often to be rendered in English by the preterperfect:
ex., لَمْ أَرَهُ مُذُ يَوْمَانِ I have not seen him for two days.
b2: لَمْ يَضْرِبْ He did not beat. (
S, &c.) See also لَمَّا.
b3: أَلَمْ: see the latter half of art. أَلَا; and the former part of art. أَمَا.
b4: لَمَّا as a
particle of exception [is equivalent to our But; meaning both except and, after an oath or the like, only, or nothing more than; and] is put before a nominal proposition; as, إِنْ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ
لَمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌ [There is not any soul but over it is a guardian, (
Kur lxxxvi. 4,)]
accord. to those who pronounce the م with teshdeed: and before a verb which is literally, but not in meaning, a preterite; as in أَنْشُدُكَ اللّٰهَ لَمَّا فعَلْتَ [I conjure, or beg, or beseech, thee by God but that thou do such a thing], i. e. مَا أَسْأَلُكَ إَلَّا فِعْلَكَ [I do not ask of thee anything save thy doing such a thing]. (
Mughnee.) See its
syn. إِلَّا. In the
Kur xxxviii. 13,
accord. to one reading, it occurs before a verb which is a preterite literally and in meaning.
b5: لَمَّا,
accord. to Ibn-
Málik, is
syn. with إِذْ: [and sometimes, like إِذْ, it means Since, or because:] one may say, لَمَّا
أَكْرَمْتَنِى أَمْسِ أَكْرَمْتُكَ اليَوْمَ: but this is said to mean لَهَّا ثَبَتَ اليَوْمَ إِكْرَامُكَ لِى أَمْسِ أَكْرَمْتُكَ. (
Mughnee.) See also an
ex. voce رَزَقَ.
b6: لَمَّا يَضْرِبْ He has not yet beaten. (
S, &c.) See also لَمْ.
لَمَمٌ A slight insanity or diabolical possession; (
Mgh,
Msb:) a slight taint or infection of insanity. See طَيْفٌ.
لَمَّةٌ A touch, or somewhat [of a taint or an infection of insanity], from the jinn. (
S,
K.) See لَمَمٌ.
لِمَّةٌ Hair that descends below the lobe of the ear. (
S,
K.) But see وَفْرَةٌ: and see a
tropical use of it in a verse of Kumeyt cited in art. حف, p. 597 c.
مِلَمٌّ: see مِثَمٌّ.
مُلِمَّةٌ A misfortune that befalls in the present world. (
S.) See an
ex. in a verse cited
voce حَجَا.
مُلَمَّمٌ A boy having a لِمَّة. (
IDrd,
TA,
voce مُجَمَّمٌ.)
