Nature; natural, native, or innate, disposition, temper, or other quality or property; (S, Msb, K;) as also شِيءْمَةٌ, (K,) which is an extr. dialect var.: (TA:) plural شِيَمٌ. (Msb.)
2.
-A2- Also Dust, or earth, dug from the ground; (As, S, K;) and so ↓شِيَامٌ. (S, as on the authority of As; but only in one of my two copies of the S.)