أَشَمُّ

, applied to a man, (Msb,) Having that quality of the nose which is termed شَمَمٌ; (Msb, K;) or so أَشَمُّ الأَنْفِ, thus applied: (S:) feminine شَمَّاءُ: (Msb, TA:) and plural شُمٌّ. (TA.)

And [hence, (tropical:) Self-magnifying, or proud, or haughty: or] a chief characterized by disdainfulness, scornfulness, or disdainful and proud incompliance, (K, TA,) and high-minded. (TA.)

Also A mountain tall, (S, TA,) or high, (TA,) in the head. (S, TA.) [And High, as applied to a place of ascent in a mountain: see an example of the plural in a verse cited voce تَصَدَّفَ.]

And A shoulder high in the head of its bone. (K.)

[Freytag mentions two other meanings:

“ Ventus ex alto veniens, qui penetrantioris est odoratus:

[and] feminine شَمَّاء Jugum extensum in monte: ” from the Deewán of the Hudhalees.]