أَشْأَمُ
1.
[More, and most, unlucky, inauspicious, unfortunate, or unprosperous]. The Arabs say,
أَشْأَمُ كُلِّ امْرِيء ٍ بَيْنَ لَحْيَيْهِ, (Meyd, TA,) as some relate it, or, as others relate it, فَكَّيْهِ, which means the same, (Meyd,) [apparently meaning according to the TA, The most unlucky thing of every man is between his two jaws, or the two lateral portions of his lower jaw; but it is said that] أَشْأَمُ is here used in the sense of شُوءْمٌ [i. e. the unluckiness, &c.]; and in a similar manner [the contr.] أَيْمَنُ is used [in the sense of يُمْن]: so says AHeyth: (Meyd:) the prov. meaning the tongue. (AHeyth, TA.) The feminine is شُوءْمَى. (TA.)
2.
Hence, (TA,) اليَدُ
الشُّوءْمَى
The left hand or arm; opposite of
اليُمْنَى; (K, TA;) i. q.
الشِّمَالُ. (TA.) It is said in a tradition, respecting camels, لَا يَأْتِى خَيْرُهَا إِلَّا مِنْ
جَانِبِهَا الأَشْأَمِ [Their goodness comes not save from their left side]: i. e. they are milked and mounted only from the left side. (TA.)
3.
See also مَشْوءُومٌ, in three places.
4.
Zuheyr, in the following saying,
uses it in the sense of the verbal noun شُوءْم; (S;) meaning غِلْمَانَ شُوءْمٍ: (S, and EM p. 124:) he says, And it, i. e. war, will bring forth for you boys of ill luck, or evil omen; all of them like Ahmar of' Ád: then it will suckle these boys, and wean them: by Ahmar of ' Ád, he means Ahmar of Thamood, for Ahmar was the surname of him who hamstrung the she-camel of Sálih, and his name was Kudár: he says thus for the sake of the measure: or, as some say, Thamood were called 'Ád-el-Ákhireh. (EM.)فَتُنْتَجْ لَكُمْ غِلْمَانَ أَشْأَمَ كُلُّهُمْكَأَحْمَرِ عَاد ٍ ثُمَّ تُرْضِعْ فَتَفْطِمْ