تحلّم

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2.
Also He affected, or pretended, to dream, or see a vision in sleep: whence, in a tradition, تَحَلَّمَ مَا لَمْ يَحْلُمْ [He affected, or pretended, to have dreamed that which he did not dream]. (TA.) And He asserted himself falsely to have dreamed, or seen a vision in sleep. (TA.) And تحلّم الحُلْمَ i. q. اِسْتَعْمَلَهُ [He feigned the dream; or made use of it as a pretext]. (K.)
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He affected, or endeavoured to acquire, (تَكَلَّفَ) [the quality termed] الحِلْم [i. e. forbearance, or clemency, &c.]. (S, K.) A poet says,
تَحَلَّمْ عَنِ الأَدْنَيْنَ وَاسْتَبْقِ وُدَّهُمْ
وَلَنْ تَسْتَطِيعَ الحِلْمَ حَتَّى تَحَلَّمَا
[Endeavour thou to treat with forbearance the meaner sort of people, and preserve their love; for thou wilt not be able to be forbearing unless thou endeavour to be so]. (S.)
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See also حَلُمَ عَنْهُ.
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[Hence,] تَحَلَّمَتِ القِدْرُ (tropical:) The cooking-pot ceased to boil; opposite of جَهِلَت (TA in article جهل.)
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See also 6.
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It became fat; said of the [kind of lizard called] ضَبّ; (L in article ملح;) and likewise of cattle: (K:) [or] it became fat and compact; said of a child, and of the ضَبّ: (S:) [or] it began to be fat; said of a child, and of the ضَبّ, (K,) and of the jerboa, and of the قُرَاد [or tick]; in the K, erroneously, جَرَاد. (TA.)
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تَحَلَّمَتِ القِرْبَةُ The skin became full. (TA.)

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