Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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سرقن سرم سرمد


سُرْمٌ

سُرْمٌ The anus; (IAạr, T;) the place of egress of the feces; i. e. the extremity of the rectum; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) a post-classical word: (Ṣ:) or the interior of the extremity of the rectum: (Lth, TA:) or the edge, or margin, of the rectum: accord. to some, peculiarly in beasts of prey that have claws: pl. أَسْرَامٌ. (M.) Hence the phrase رَجُلٌ وَاسِعُ السُّرْمِ ضَخْمُ البُلْعُومِ, occurring in a trad., meaning † A man strong, or vehement, and violent, or wrongful or unjust or tyrannical in conduct: or a man prodigal of wealth and of blood: and therefore described as wide in the places of egress and ingress. (TA in art. بلعم and in the present art.)


سَرَمٌ

سَرَمٌ Pain of the anus. (Ḳ, TA.)


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