جرثم
Q. 2 تَجَرْثَمَ: see 3, in two places.
A2: تجرثم الشَّىْءَ He took the greater, main, or chief, part of the thing. (
K.)
Q. 3 اِجْرَنْثَمَ He, or it, drew himself, or itself, together; contracted; or shrank: (
TA,
Har p. 297:) from جُرْثُومَةٌ signifying the “earth collected around a tree.” (
Har ib.) Also, and ↓ تجرثم, It (a thing,
S) collected itself together, or became collected, (
S,
K,) and kept to a place. (
K.) Hence, in a
trad., ↓ وَعَادَ لَهَا النِّقادُ مُجْرَنْثِمًا And the lambs, by reason of it, namely, the vehement drought, became collected, or drawn, together [in one place, and kept to it]. (
TA.)
b2: He (a man,
TA) fell from a high, or higher, to a low, or lower, place; as also ↓ تجرثم. (
K,
TA.) جُرْثُمَةٌ: see what next follows.
جُرْثُومَةٌ [and
accord. to Golius, as on the authority of the
S, جُرْثُومٌ, but this I have. not found in any Lexicon but his and that of Freytag,] The root, lowest part, base, stock, or source,
syn. أَصْلٌ, of a thing; (
S,
Mgh,
K;) whatever the thing be; (
Mgh;) as also ↓ جُرْثُمَةٌ: (
TA:) and the place of collection thereof: (
Mgh,
TA:) or the earth that is collected at the roots, or lower parts, of trees: (
K:) or the earth collected around a tree: (
Har p. 297:) or the root of a tree to which the earth is collected: (
Lth,
TA:)
pl. جَرَاثِيمُ. (
Mgh.) One is related to have said, الأَسْدُ جُرْثُومَةُ العَرَبِ فَمَنْ أَضَلَّ نَسَبَهُ فَلِيَأْتِهِمْ [ElAsd are those, of the Arabs, to whom most others congregate: therefore whoever loses his genealogy, let him come to them]: meaning الأَزْدُ. (
TA.) And جَرَاثِيمُ جَهَنَّمَ means The greater, main, or chief, degrees of the punishment of Hell. (
Mgh.)
b2: The base (أَصْل) of a sandhill overlooking what surrounds it. (
Har p. 99.) and the
pl. (جراثيم), Places elevated above the ground, composed of clay and earth collected together. (
TA.)
b3: The earth collected by ants; (
TA;) an ant-hill: (
K:) or جُرْثُومَةُ النَّمْلِ signifies the ant-hill. (
S.)
b4: The earth, or dust, that the wind raises, or sweeps up and scatters. (
K.)
b5: The غَلْصَمَة [or epiglottis]. (
K.) مُجْرَنْثِمٌ: see 3.
b2: رَكَبٌ مُجْرَنْثَمٌ [in the
CK, erroneously, رَكْبٌ مُجْرَنْثَمٌ,]
i. q. مُسْتَهْدِفٌ, (
K,
TA, [in the
CK, erroneously, مُسْتَهْدَفٌ,]) i. e., A wide, elevated pubes. (
TA in art. هدف.)
