Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

صَكَمَهُ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) [aor. ـُ {يَصْكُمُ},] inf. n. صَكْمٌ, (TA,) He (a man, Fr, Ṣ) struck him, or it. (Fr, Ṣ, Ḳ.) See also صَوَاكِمُ.

And He (a man, Fr, Aṣ, Ṣ) pushed, thrust, or repelled, him, or it. (Fr, Aṣ, Ṣ, Ḳ.)

And one says of a horse, يَصْكُمُ, (Ṣ,) or صَكَمَ عَلَى لِجَامِهِ, (Ḳ,) or عَلَى فَأْسِ اللِّجَامِ, (TA,) The horse champs, (Ṣ,) or champed, (Ḳ,) his bit, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) or the فأس of the bit, (TA,) and stretches forth his head, (Ṣ,) or then stretched forth his head, as though desiring to contend for superiority [with his rider]. (Ḳ.)

صَكْمَةٌ A vehement shock, collision, impetus, push, or thrust, (Lth, Ṣ, Ḳ, TA,) with a stone or some other thing. (Lth, TA.)

صُكَّمٌ i. q. أَخْفَافٌ [which means Camels' feet, and boots; probably, here, the former: in the TḲ it is expl. as meaning the hoofs of camels: and it is there said that the sing. is صَاكِمٌ]. (Ḳ.)

صَوَاكِمُ Calamities, misfortunes, or evil accidents. (Ḳ.) The Arabs say,صَكَمَتْهُ↓ صَوَاكِمُ الدَّهْرِ [The calamities of fortune smote him; or may the calamities of fortune smite him]. (Ṣ.)