حُلْمٌ

a verbal noun of حَلَمَ; as also ↓ حُلُمٌ. (Msb.)

And A dream, or vision in sleep; (S, K;) as also ↓ حُلُمٌ: (K:) according to most of the lexicologists, as well as F, synonym with رُوءْيَا: or it is specially such as is evil; and روءيا is the contr.: this is corroborated by the tradition, الرُّوءْيَا مِنَ اللّٰهِ وَالحُلْمُ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ [The روءيا is from God, and the حلم is from the Devil]: (MF:) and by the phrase, in the Qur'an, 12:44 and xxi. 5], أَضْغَاثُ أَحْلَامٍ [The confused circumstances of dreams, or of evil dreams]: but each is used in the place of the other: (TA:) أَحْلَامٌ is the plural (K.)

أَحْلَامُ نَايءِمٍ [lit. The dreams of a sleeper;] a kind of thick cloths, or garments, (IKh, Z, TA,) striped, of the people of El-Medeeneh. (Z, TA.)