شَامَةٌ

A mole, synonym خَالٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) upon the person; (Msb;) [i. e.] a pimple inclining to blackness, upon the person; (Mgh;) or a [natural] mark differing from the colour of the person upon which it is: (K, * TA:) its medial radical letter is originally ى: (S, TA:) and it is also with ء, i. e. شَأْمَةٌ: (IAth, TA:) plural ↓ شَامٌ, (S, Msb, K,) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and [the plural properly so termed is] شَامَاتٌ. (Msb, K.) حَتَّى تَكُونُوا كَأَنَّكُمْ شَامَةٌ فِى النَّاسِ [So that ye may be as though ye were a mole amid the people], occurring in a tradition, means [that ye may] be in the goodliest garb or guise, appearing like the شامة, at which one looks exclusively of the rest of the person. (IAth, TA.) And one says, ↓ صَارُوا شَامًا فِى البِلَادِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) They became scattered [in the countries] like the شام [or moles] upon the person. (TA.)

Also A black mark upon the person, [an explanation which seems to apply, like the former in the K, to a mole, though given as differing therefrom,] and upon the ground: plural [or coll. gen. n.] ↓ شَامٌ. (K.)

It is also [A mark, or spot,] upon a mare, upon a place that is disapproved, and sometimes upon her دَوَايءِر [which means what are termed feathers, plural of دَايءِرَةٌ, q. v.]. (ISh, TA.)

And A spot (نُكْتَة) [upon the face] of the moon. (K.)

And (tropical:) A black she-camel: (IAar, S, K, TA:) according to Niftaweyh, شَأْمَةٌ, with; but ISd says, I know not the reason of this, unless it be extr., like الخَأْتَمُ and العَأْلِمُ. (TA.) One says, مَا لَهُ شَامَةٌ وَلَا زَهْرَاءُ, meaning, (tropical:) He has not a black she-camel nor a white one. (S, K, TA.)