Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

شَبِمَ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَشْبَمُ}, (Ḳ,) inf. n. شَبَمٌ, (TA,) It was, or became, cold; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) said of water. (Ṣ.)

شَبَمَ الجَدْىَ, (Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَشْبُمُ}, inf. n. شَبْمٌ, (TḲ,) He put the شِبَام [q. v.] in the mouth of the kid; as alsoشبّمهُ↓, (Ḳ,) inf. n. تَشْبِيمٌ. (TA.)

شَبَمٌ Cold, or coldness; (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) accord. to the M, of water: (TA:) but one says غَدَاةٌ ذَاتُ شَبَمٍ [A morning having coldness]: (Ṣ:) and يَوْمٌ ذُو شَبَمٍ A day having coldness. (Mṣb.)

Jureybeh Ibn-El-Ashyam El-Fak'asee says,

* وَقَدْ شَبَّهُوا العِيرَ أَفْرَاسَنَا *

* فَقَدْ وَجَدُوا مَيْرَهَا ذَا شَبَمْ *

[And they likened our horses to the camels carrying provision of corn; but they found their provision to be something having coldness]; meaning, accord. to Aboo-Riyásh, that they found death; for death is cold; and poison also is cold: but there is another reading, accord. to which the last word is بَشَمْ, meaning “heaviness,” such as results from food. (Ḥam p. 363.) See also the next paragraph.

شَبِمٌ Cold, as an epithet, (Ṣ, Mṣb, TA,) applied to water, (Ṣ, TA,) and to rain; and one says غَدَاةٌ شَبِمَةٌ, meaning A cold morning. (TA.) [And] Feeling cold: (Ḳ:) or feeling cold together with hunger. (AA, Ṣ, Ḳ.)

Also A weapon, or weapons; as being cold: and such has been said to be the meaning [ofذَا شَبَمْ↓] in the verse cited above. (TA.)

And Death; because of its coldness:

and Poison; for the same reason. (Ḳ. [But see the verse cited above, and the explanation of it.])

And بَقَرَةٌ شَبِمَةٌ A fat ox or cow, or beast of the bovine kind: (Ḳ, TA:) but the epithet commonly known is سَنِمَةٌ, [meaning “having a large hump,”] with س and ن. (TA.)

شَبَامٌ A certain plant, (AḤn, Ḳ,) resembling in colour the حِنَّآء [q. v.]. (AḤn, TA.)

شِبَامٌ A piece of wood which is put crosswise in the mouth of a kid, (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA,) or, as in the M, in the two sides of the mouth of a kid or lamb, and tied behind its head, (TA,) in order that it may not suck its mother; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) as alsoشِبمَ↓: (Ḳ:) and so حِشَاكٌ. (IDrd and Ṣ in art. حشك.)

Also, (Ḳ,) or the dual, شِبَامَانِ, (Ṣ, TA,) Two threads, or strings, attached to the [kind of face-veil called] بُرْقُع, by which the woman [draws and] binds [the two upper corners of] it to the back of her head: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) [also called ثِبَاتٌ:] pl. شُبُمٌ. (O in art. سنبك.)

مُشَبَّمٌ: see the following paragraph. Applied to a lion, it means Having his mouth tied, or bound; from شِبَامٌ in the former of the senses expl. above: (Meyd, TA:) thus in the following prov.:

* تَفْرَقُ مِنْ صَتِ الغُرَا *

* بِ وَتَفْرِسُ الأَسَدَ المُشَبَّمْ *

[She is frightened at the cry of the crow, or raven, and breaks the neck of the lion whose mouth is tied]: (Meyd, Ḳ, TA:) or, accord. to another relation, المُشَتَّم, [meaning “the grimfaced,”] from شَتَامَةُ الوَجْهِ: (Meyd:) a saying originating from the fact of a woman's breaking the neck of a lion, and then hearing the cry of a crow, or raven, and being frightened: applied to him who advances boldly to undertake that which is of high account, [or attended with peril,] and fears that which is contemptible. (Meyd, Ḳ.)

مَشْبُومٌ [andمُشَبَّمٌ↓] A kid, or lamb, having the piece of wood called شِبَام put into its mouth and tied behind its head, in order that it may not suck its mother. (TA.)