طَعَامٌ

[as a verbal noun: see 1.

As a subst.,] Food, (S, Nh, Mgh, Msb, K,) of any kind; (Nh, TA;) like as شَرَابٌ signifies beverage [of any kind]: (Mgh, Msb:) and especially wheat, (S, Nh, Mgh, Msb, K,) to which it is applied by the people of El-Hijáz; (Msb, TA;) and barley; (Nh, TA;) [and corn in general; thus applied to millet in the present day in some parts of Arabia, as, for instance, in El-Yemen; (see مِيرَةٌ;)] and dates, (Nh, Mgh, TA,) when said not to mean wheat; (Mgh, TA;) &c.: (Nh, TA:) and in the Expos. of the “ Shifè, ” it is said to be applied to (tropical:) other than food tropically: (TA:) and ↓ طُعْمٌ signifies the same; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ مَطْعَمٌ; (Ham p. 166, and K; *) of which the plural is مَطَاعِمُ: (Ham ubi suprà:) one says, هُوَ يَحْتَكِرُ المَطَاعِمَ, meaning [He collects and withholds] wheat [waiting for a time of scarcity and dearness]: (A, TA:) the plural of طَعَامٌ is أَطْعِمَةٌ, (Mgh, Msb, K,) and plural plural أَطْعِمَاتٌ. (K.) [It often means A meal, or repast.] طَعَامُ البَحْرِ means That from which the water [of the sea, or of the great river,] has receded, leaving it, so that it is taken without fishing: or, as some say, anything that is irrigated by the water of the بحر [i. e. great river], and consequently vegetates: so says Zj. (TA. [See the Qur'an, 5:97.])