حلم

حَلَمَ

To dream of sexual intercourse; by extension, to experience a nocturnal emission.

A specialized construction within the broader meaning of dreaming in sleep.

• Lane · entry 15476

حَلَمَ

To attain puberty or virility.

A verbal use associated with the attainment of sexual maturity.

• Lane · entry 15476

حَلُمَ

To be or become forbearing, clement, moderate, gentle, deliberate, and calm; to manage one's temper when anger is aroused.

The verb may also describe forgiving or concealing offenses and delaying retaliation.

• Lane · entry 15476

حَلُمَ

To be intelligent or sound in understanding.

A secondary or figurative usage treated as an effect or result of forbearance and intelligence rather than its primary signification.

• Lane · entry 15476

حَلِمَ

For a camel, to become infested with many ticks.

The verb describes infestation by the insects called حَلَم.

• Lane · entry 15476

حَلِمَ

For a hide or skin, to become worm-eaten, perforated, and spoiled.

The damage is caused by the worms or ticks called حَلَم.

• Lane · entry 15476

حَلَمَهُ

To remove the ticks or worms called حَلَم from a camel, hide, or skin.

A transitive removal construction.

• Lane · entry 15476

حَلَّمَهُ

To make someone forbearing, declare or regard someone as forbearing, enjoin forbearance upon someone, or attribute forbearance to someone.

The Form II verb can express making, labeling, believing, or urging someone to possess حِلْم.

• Lane · entry 15477

حَلَّمَهُ

To fatten a suckling lamb or kid.

A causative usage referring to growth in bodily fullness.

• Lane · entry 15477

حَلَّمَهُ

To fill a skin or leather container.

A causative fullness construction, distinct from making a person forbearing.

• Lane · entry 15477

أَحْلَمَتِ

For a woman, to give birth to children who are forbearing or clement.

The Form IV verb is used of the qualities attributed to the children born.

• Lane · entry 15478

تَحَلَّمَ

To pretend or falsely claim to have dreamed or seen a vision in sleep; to feign a dream or use one as a pretext.

This is a deceptive or affected use, not simply the occurrence of a dream.

• Lane · entry 15479

تَحَلَّمَ

To affect or endeavor to acquire forbearance and clemency.

The Form V verb can describe deliberate cultivation of the quality, whether or not it is yet fully possessed.

• Lane · entry 15479

تَحَلَّمَتِ

For a cooking pot, to cease boiling.

A figurative usage contrasted with boiling or agitation.

• Lane · entry 15479

تَحَلَّمَ

To become full, plump, or fat; for a skin, to become full or filled.

The usage is reported of living creatures and of a skin or container; the underlying notion is fullness.

• Lane · entry 15479

تَحَالَمَ

To make a show of possessing forbearance without actually possessing it.

The Form VI verb emphasizes affected or ostentatious forbearance.

• Lane · entry 15480

حُلْمٌ، حُلُمٌ

A dream of sexual intercourse in sleep.

A specialized nominal use within the broader dream vocabulary.

• Lane · entry 15488

أَحْلَامُ نَائِمٍ

A kind of thick, striped cloth or garment associated with the people of Medina.

A specialized lexical expression, literally referring to the dreams of a sleeper.

• Lane · entry 15484

حِلْمٌ

Forbearance, clemency, moderation, gentleness, deliberateness, patience, gravity, calmness, and self-command under anger.

The noun includes forgiving or concealing offenses, delaying requital, and possessing the power to restrain an angry response.

• Lane · entry 15485

حَلِمٌ

A camel bearing many ticks, or spoiled by an abundance of them.

A nominal description of a camel affected by حَلَم.

• Lane · entry 15487

حَلِمٌ

A hide or skin spoiled and perforated by ticks or worms; also a young goat whose skin has been damaged in this way.

The term is applied to the resulting condition of the hide or animal skin.

• Lane · entry 15487

حَلَمَةٌ

A tick, especially a large tick or one in the last stage of its growth.

The word may denote an individual tick or function as a collective designation for such ticks.

• Lane · entry 15489

حَلَمَةٌ

The nipple or small protuberance of the breast.

The anatomical sense is figurative, based on the form or size of the tick called حَلَمَةٌ, and applies to human male and female breasts.

• Lane · entry 15489

حَلَمَةٌ

A worm that attacks the skin of sheep or goats and leaves it thin or prone to tearing when tanned.

A specialized insect or worm sense, distinct from the tick sense.

• Lane · entry 15489

حَلَمَةٌ

A species of plant or pasture herb.

The plant is described as a rough-leaved, flowering desert plant; authorities differ over its precise identification.

• Lane · entry 15489

حَلِيمَةٌ مُغْتَاظَةٌ

A stone cooking pot, in a figurative appellation suggesting calmness despite containing boiling contents.

An idiomatic tropical expression.

• Lane · entry 15490

حَلِيمٌ

A fat camel, or a camel becoming fat.

A non-moral adjectival use of حَلِيمٌ, separate from forbearance.

• Lane · entry 15490

حَالِمٌ

One who is dreaming, especially one dreaming of sexual intercourse or experiencing an emission in sleep.

The active participle has a specialized sleep-related use.

• Lane · entry 15491

حَالِمٌ

One who has attained puberty or virility.

A generalized use derived from the sleep-related and sexual-maturity vocabulary.

• Lane · entry 15491

حَالُومٌ

A preparation of thickened milk or dried curd resembling fresh cheese.

A dialectal Egyptian term.

• Lane · entry 15492

أَحْلَامٌ

Bodies or physical forms.

A specialized plural usage for which no ordinary singular is supplied.

• Lane · entry 15493

أَضْرَاسُ الحُلُمِ

The wisdom teeth or teeth of puberty.

An idiom naming the teeth that emerge after the earlier teeth have become established.

• Lane · entry 15488