همج
1 همج, [
app. هَمِجَ,
aor. ـَ
inf. n. هَمَجٌ, He hungered; was hungry. (
L.)
b2: هَمَجَتِ الإِبِلُ مِنَ المَآءِ, (
S,
K,)
aor. ـُ
inf. n. هَمْجٌ, (
S,) The camels drank of the water at one draught, (
S,
K,) until they satisfied their thirst. (
S.) 4 اهمج, (
inf. n. إِهْمَاجٌ,
TA,) He (a horse,
S,
K, or other animal that runs,
Lh,) strove or exerted himself, in his running, (
S,
K,) and then ran impetuously, so as to raise the dust. (
TA.) هَمَجٌ Hunger: or (in the
K, and) bad management of the means of subsistence. (
S,
K.) ↓ هَمَجٌ هَامِجٌ [Severe hunger: or very bad management of the means of subsistence:] (
S,
K:) the latter word is added to give intensiveness to the signification; (
TA;) or to corroborate; (
S,
K;) as in the case of لَيْلٌ لَائِلٌ. (
S.)
b2: هَمَجٌ Small flies, like gnats, that fall upon the faces of sheep or goats, and asses, (
S,
K,) and into their eyes: (
S:) or gnats; so called from هَمَجٌ signifying “ hunger; ” because when they are hungry they live, but when they become satiated they die: or صِغَار الدَّوَابِّ: (
L:) [but this is evidently a mistake for صِغَارُ الذُّبَابِ the young ones, or little ones, of flies:]) or any grubs that burst forth from flies or from gnats: (
Lth, A:)
pl. of هَمَجَةٌ, (
S,) [or rather this is the
n. un. of هَمَجٌ, which is a
coll. gen. n.].
b3: هَمَجٌ Lean sheep or goats: (
K:) [a
coll. gen. n.,]
n. un. with ة. (
S,
K.)
b4: هَمَجٌ (
tropical:) Stupid, or foolish, men; or men of little sense: (
K:) or stupid, or foolish, young men of the meaner sort: (
S:) or simply young men of the meaner sort: or mixed and low set of men: or disorderly vagabonds: (
TA:) you say also رَجُلٌ هَمَجٌ and هَمَجَةٌ a stupid, or foolish, man; and رِجَالٌ هَمَجٌ, and أَهْمَاجٌ: (
TA:) or هَمَجَةٌ signifies a stupid, or foolish, man, who has not firm command of himself. (Aboo-Sa'eed.)
b5: هَمَجٌ Old and weak ewes: (
K:) [a
coll. gen. n.,]
n. un. with ة: which also signifies simply a ewe. (
TA.)
b6: قَوْمٌ هَمَجٌ A people in whom is no good. (
TA.)
b7: ↓ هَمَجٌ هَامِجٌ Young men of the meaner sort; like هَمَجٌ alone: and a mixed set of men who have no intelligence nor manliness. (
TA.) هَمِيجٌ A doe-antelope scared, or frightened, by [the small flies called] هَمَجٌ: (
S:) a young doe-antelope, (
K,) of beautiful body: (
L:) one lank in the belly: or one that has two streaks of a colour different from that of the rest of the body in [the two parts called] the طُرَّتَانِ: (
K:) or one that has two such streaks on her back; which is only the case in such as are white; and also applied to the male: (
TA:) or one that has been attacked by a pain in consequence of which her face has become flabby. (
K.) هَامِجٌ: see هَمَجٌ.
b2: (
tropical:) [A people] left to mix tumultuously, one part with another. (
K.) [The explanation seems to be borrowed from the
Kur, xviii. 99.]
