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Quran

Arabic dictionary

Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)

Entry لحم

4 أَلْحَمَ خَرْقَهُ [He closed up the hole thereof with a patch]; meaning a garment, or piece of cloth, and a skin, or hide. (TA in art. رقع.)

إِلْحَامُ الجِرَاحَاتِ [The consolidating of wounds]. (K in art. سبع.)

أَلْحَمَهُ عِرْضَهُ (tropical:) He empowered him to revile, vilify, or censure, him: (S, K, TA:) he made his honour, or reputation, to be to him [as] a ↓ لُحْمَة [or hawk's portion of the quarry]. (Har, p. 392.)

أَلْحِمْ مَا أَسْدَيْتَ: see أَسْدَى.

6 تَلَاحَمَ It was joined, or knit, together. See K, voce مَزْفُورٌ.

8 اِلْتَحَمَ It coalesced, consolidated, closed up, or became closely united. (TA.) تَمْرٌ لَهُ لَحْمٌ [Dates having flesh]. (Msb in art. حشف.)

لَحْمٌ: see ثَرِيدٌ, last sentence. شَحِمٌ لَحِمٌ: see مَحِضٌ and شَحِمٌ. لَحْمَةٌ and ↓ لُحْمَةٌ The woof; or the threads that are woven into the سَدَى. or warp, of a piece of cloth. (Msb, &c.) لُحْمَةٌ: see 4, and لَحْمَةٌ.

لُحْمَةٌ شَابِكَةٌ: see مُشْتَبِكٌ. لَحَّامٌ A butcher. (Fr, TA in art. سطر.) مَلَاحِمُ الفَرْجِ (K) The narrow, or strait, parts of the pudendum muliebre: (TA:) or rather, the fleshy parts thereof: the sing. مَلْحَمَةٌ signifying, accord. to analogy, a place of much flesh: see بِطَانٌ. المُلْتَحِمَةٌ [The tunica albuginea, or white of the eye: so in the present day]. (K, voce سَبَلٌ.) شَجَّةٌ مُتَلَاحِمَةٌ: see شَجَّةٌ, and بَازِلَةٌ (voce بَازِلٌ).

E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.