بهم

بَهَّمَ

To separate lambs or kids from their mothers and pasture them separately.

Form II verb.

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بَهَّمَ

To stay or remain in a place without leaving it.

Form II verb, used with بِالمكانِ.

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بَهَّمَ

To continue looking at something fixedly without finding relief in the act.

A figurative Form II use said of a person.

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بَهَّمَ

To become silent and perplexed when questioned about something.

A figurative Form II use.

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بَهَّمَ

To refrain from fighting or engaging in conflict.

A figurative Form II use.

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أَبْهَمَ

To become dubious, confused, or vague, so that the way to understand or deal with something is unknown.

Intransitive Form IV use, said of a thing or affair.

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أَبْهَمَ

To close, lock, or stop up a door; of the thumb, to close over the palm of the hand.

Form IV physical-closure construction.

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أَبْهَمَ

To make a thing, speech, report, or information dubious, confused, vague, or difficult to understand.

Causative Form IV use, contrary to making something clear.

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أَبْهَمَ

To declare or treat something as absolutely prohibited and impermissible.

A figurative Form IV use applied to a prohibited matter.

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أَبْهَمَ

To make a person turn away, withdraw, or retire from a thing or affair.

A figurative Form IV construction with عَنْ.

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أَبْهَمَ

Of land, to produce or abound in بُهْمَى.

Form IV use describing vegetation produced by the land.

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اِسْتَبْهَمَ

To be as though an affair, speech, or information were closed against someone, making it difficult or impossible to understand, express, or carry out.

Form X construction, especially استبهم عليه الأمر or الكلام; it may describe an impeded or tongue-tied speaker or obscure information.

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بَهْمٌ

Young sheep, goats, or young animals of the bovine kind; a lamb or kid in the relevant early stage.

The reports differ on whether the term applies immediately after birth or after the stage called سَخْلَةٌ, and on its precise age range.

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سَعْدُ البِهَام

A lunar mansion called Saʿd al-Bihām; alternatively, two stars not counted among the lunar mansions.

A proper astronomical designation with variant descriptions.

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بَهِمٌ

Of land, abounding in the plant called بُهْمَى.

A possessive adjective applied to land.

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بُهْمَة

A solid rock or great mass of stone, without a hollow interior.

A concrete noun; the sense extends to something solid and impenetrable.

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بُهْمَة

A courageous, formidable man or horseman difficult for an adversary to approach, or a resolute man who is not turned from what he intends.

A figurative epithet; the cited lexical restriction excludes its use as an epithet for a woman.

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بُهْمَة

An army, or a company of courageous or armored horsemen difficult to engage.

A collective or plural-like use.

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بُهْمَة

A difficult, baffling, or embarrassing affair whose management or solution is not apparent.

A figurative noun; its plural may describe dubious or confused affairs.

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بُهْمَة

Blackness.

An abstract or color-related use.

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البُهَم

The three nights in which the moon does not visibly rise.

A conventional calendrical or astronomical designation.

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بُهْمَى

A prickly grass or pasture plant, eagerly eaten by sheep, goats, or camels while green and becoming thorny when dry.

A plant name used as both a singular and collective noun in the cited discussion.

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بَهِيم

Black; also, a black ewe with no white marking.

The adjective may be substantivized for the ewe.

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بَهِيم

Of one pure, unmixed color, with no contrasting color in it, whether black or another color.

Applied especially to a horse or to a color; the cited authorities except the color termed شُهْبَة.

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بَهِيم

A night without light until dawn.

A descriptive adjective applied to night.

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بَهِيم

Of a sound or voice, without trilling, quavering, or reiteration in the throat.

A figurative descriptive use.

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بَهِيم

Whole and sound, without mutilation, defect, or disease.

One interpretation of the expression يُحْشَرُ النَّاسُ بُهْمًا.

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بَهِيم

Naked, without anything covering the body.

An alternative interpretation of the expression يُحْشَرُ النَّاسُ بُهْمًا.

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بَهِيم

Without worldly goods or commodities.

An alternative interpretation of the expression يُحْشَرُ النَّاسُ بُهْمًا.

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بَهِيم

Unknown.

A figurative use attributed to a cited authority.

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بَهِيمِي

Of, or relating to, beasts or brute animals.

Relational adjective.

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بَهِيمِيَّة

The nature or essential character of beasts or brute animals.

Abstract noun derived from the relational adjective.

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أَبْهَم

Mute or unable to articulate speech.

A lexical equivalent of أَعْجَم in the cited usage.

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إِبْهَام

The thumb or great toe, the largest digit of the hand or foot.

The term is feminine in common usage but is also attested as masculine; its regular plurals include أَبَاهِيمُ and أَبَاهِمُ.

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مُبْهَم

Closed or inaccessible; of a door, locked or stopped up; of a wall, without a door; or of a chest, without a means of opening it.

A passive-participial adjective describing physical absence of an opening or access.

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مُبْهَم

Solid and without a fissure or hollow; figuratively, of a heart, impervious to admonition.

A physical and associated figurative use.

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مُبْهَم

Obscure, vague, indefinite, or difficult to understand; of a road, unapparent or hardly apparent.

Applied to things, speech, information, legal ordinances, and, in grammatical terminology, demonstrative nouns and certain particles whose derivation or root is not apparent.

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مُبْهَم

Of a vow or an ordinance concerning marriage, divorce, or emancipation, inescapable or impossible to extricate oneself from.

A figurative legal use, conceived as a closed door with a lock.

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مُبْهَم

Absolutely prohibited and not allowable under any circumstance.

Applied to prohibited matters, including certain permanently forbidden marriages.

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مُبْهَم

In a state of swooning or insensibility, speechless and without discrimination.

A figurative or resultant-state use, especially after a blow or similar affliction.

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مُسْتَبْهِم

Debarred from the faculty of speech.

Used with عَنِ الكلامِ for a person unable to speak.

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