جَشِمَ الأَمْرَ

aorist جَشَمَ , verbal noun جَشْمٌ (S, Msb, K) and جَشَامَةٌ, (Msb, K,) He took, or imposed, upon himself the affair, or he undertook it, as a task, or in spite of difficulty or trouble or inconvenience; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ تجشّمهُ, (S, Msb, * K,) and تجسّمهُ: (Aboo-Turáb, TA:) or ↓ the second and third signify he constrained himself to do it, or perform it: (Aboo-Mihjen, Aboo-Turáb, TA in article جسم:) and كَذَا وَكَذَا darr; تجشّمHe did such and such things against his will, and in spite of difficulty or trouble or inconvenience. (TA.) [See also an example of ↓ تجشّم in art . جسم ;conj. 5, last sentence.] جَشِمْتُ إِلَيْكَ عَرَقَ القِرْبَةِ is said to mean [I have imposed upon myself difficulty or trouble or inconvenience, in coming to thee,] so that I have journeyed, and become in want of the water of the water-skin in the journey: or the meaning is, I have suffered, and imposed upon myself, difficulty or trouble or inconvenience, so that I have sweated like the water-skin: or by the عَرَق of the قِرْبَة is meant its عَلَق, i. e., its مِعْلَاق, by which it is carried; and the phrase means إِلَيْكَ ↓ تَجَشَّمْتُ حَمْلَ القِربَةِ [I have impose upon myself, in spite of difficulty &c., in coming to thee, the carrying of the water-skin]; alluding to journeying and its difficulties: (Har p. 511:) [and in like manner,] one says, لَكَ عَرَقَ القِرْبَةَ ↓ تَجَشَّمْتُ (S in article عرق.) The sportsman, when he has not taken any game, and has returned disappointed, says, مَا جَشِمْتُ إِلَيْكَ ظِلْفًا [apparently meaning I have not had the trouble of bringing to thee so much as a hoof of a gazelle or the like]. (AZ, TA.) And مَا جَشِمْتُ اليَوْمَ طَعَامًا i. e., I have not eaten, to-day, food, is said on the occasion of the disappointment of any one seeking a thing. (AZ, TA.)