حُمَامٌ

The fever (حُمَّى) of camels; (S;) as also ↓ حُمَّاءُ: (TA:) or of all beasts, (K, TA,) including camels: (TA:) according to ISh, when camels eat date-stones, [which are often given to them as food,] they are [sometimes] affected with حُمَام and قُمَاح; the former of which is a heat affecting the skin, until the body is smeared with mud, or clay, in consequence of which they forsake the abundant herbage, and their fat goes away; and it continues in them a month, and then passes away. (Az, TA.)

حُمَامُ قُرٍّ The disease termed مُوم, which affects men. (TA.)

See also حَمِيمٌ.

-A2- A noble chief, or lord: (K:) thought by Az to be originally هُمَامٌ. (TA.)