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أَهَمَّتُ It rendered him anxious; (MA;) disquieted him, and grieved him. (Mgh.) See عَنَاهُ .

اِنهمَّ : see a verse cited in art. ب , p. 144.

اِهْتَمَّ بِالأَمْرِ He was grieved, and disquieted, by the affair, or case: (TA:) you say اِهْتَمَّ لَهُ بِأَمْرِهِ he was grieved for him by his affair, or case. (S.) [He was, or became, anxious, disquieted, or grieved, by it.] ― -b2- He minded, or attended to, the affair: (MA:) undertook, or superintended, or managed, the affair. (Msb.) See عُنِىَ , in art. عنى . ― -b3- اِهْتَمَّ لَهُ He cared for, minded, or regarded, him, or it. (Har, p. 94.) ― -b4- اِهْتَمَّ بَلَدَ كَذَا i. q. اِعْتَسَّهُ . (TA in art. عس .)

هَمَ for هَمَا for أَمَا before an oath: see the last.

هَمٌّ and ↓ هِمَّةٌ Purpose, or intention; syn. أَوَّلُ العَزْمِ and أَوَّلُ العَزِيمَةِ . (Msb.) See Har, p. 345, and a verse cited voce طَلَّاع . ― -b2- Also the ↓ latter, Strong determination or resolution. (Msb.) ― -b3- هَمٌّ An object, or a thing intended or meant or desired or determined upon, in the mind. (K, * TA.) See an ex. voce حَمٌّ and سَمٌّ : you say, هَمُّهُ كَذَا His object is such a thing. ― -b4- هَمٌّ [Anxiety; or disquietude, or trouble, of mind; solicitude; care: or grief, or sorrow:] distress, or disquietude, affecting the heart or mind, by reason of some harm, or annoyance, that is expected to happen; differing from غَمٌّ , which signifies “ distress, or disquietude, affecting the heart or mind, by reason of what has happened: ” or both, as some say, signify the same [namely distress, or disquietude, of mind]: the difference is asserted by 'Iyád and others. (TA in art. غم .) ― -b5- هَمُّهُ بَطْنُهُ [His object of care, or of anxiety, is his belly]. (K in art. بطن .) And لَا هَمَّ لَهُ اـِلَّا بَطْنُهُ [He has no object of care, or of anxiety, but his belly]. (TA in that art.) ― -b6- هَمَّكَ مَا هَمَّكَ means هَمَّكَ مَا عَنَاكَ : and هَمَّكَ also signifies اذابك . (JK.) See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 880.

هِمٌّ A decrepit, old, and weak, or extremely aged. man. (S, Msb, K.)

هَمَّةٌ : see هِمَّةٌ .

هِمَّةٌ A thing that one meditates, purposes, or intends to do; or that one desires to do; or endeavours to do; a purpose; an intention; or an object of desire, or of endeavour; as also ↓ هَمَّةٌ . (JK, K.) ― -b2- هِمَّةٌ [Ambition; particularly of a high kind;] a faculty firmly rooted in the soul, seeking high things, and fleeing from base things. (Ibn-Kemál, in TA.) See بَعِيدُ , and هَمٌّ . ― -b3- هِمَّةٌ [Mind; purpose; aspiration; desire; ambition; enterprise; emprise.] ― -b4- هِمَّةٌ عَالِيَةٌ High purpose; ambition.

هُمَامٌ An aspiring king: (S, K:) a magnanimous, i. e. courageous and liberal, chief. (K.)

هَمْهَامٌ A wild bird of the crow kind: see صُرَدٌ .

هَامَةٌ , pl. هَوَامُّ , Any venomous creeping thing or reptile or the like, that may be killed; such as the scorpion, and the serpent: and (tropical:) a louse; (Mgh:) what has deadly venom; as the scorpion: (Az, Msb:) and sometimes, what is noxious: (Msb:) any reptile or the like, from the louse to the serpent; (AHát, Msb:) but its application to the louse is tropical: (Msb:) any venomous or noxious reptile or the like; such as the scorpion, and the serpent: the like of serpents and scorpions; because they creep ( تَهِمُّ , i. e. تَدِبّ ). (JK.)

مُهِمٌّ A difficult, an arduous, a distressing, or an afflictive affair, or business: syn. أَمْرٌ شَدِيدٌ : (S:) and مُهِمَّاتٌ signifies أُمُورُ شِدَادٌ , (JK,) affairs of difficulty: and, of importance.

بَرَدٌ مُنْهَمٌّ [app. Dissolving hail-stones]. (Mughnee and K, in explanations of كَ .) See a verse in explanation of بِ used redundantly, p. 144.