ج • ه • م

, aor. جَهُمَ , inf. n. جُهُومَةٌ (S, K) and جَهَامَةٌ, (K,) He (a man) became frowning, or contracted, in face; or grinning in face, with a frowning, or contraction, or a stern, an austere, or a morose, look: (S:) or he was, or became, coarse, or rough, and contracted, and ugly, in face. (K.) Also, said of the pubes, It was coarse, rough, or big. (TA.) -A2- جَهَمَهُ, (S, K,) and جَهِمَهُ, aor. جَهَمَ , in both instances; (K;) and ↓ تجهّمهُ, (S, K,) and لَهُ ↓ تجهّم; (JK, K;) He grinned, frowning, or looking sternly, austerely, or morosely, in his face: (S:) or he met him, or regarded him, with a displeasing, (JK, K, TA,) frowning, or grinning and frowning, (TA,) face: (JK, K, TA:) or ↓ تجهّم signifies he showed a sour, a crabbed, or an austere, face. (TK in art. عبس.) A poet says,

↓ الجَهُومَا ↓ وَبَلْدَةٍ تَجَهَّمُ

زَجَرْتُ فِيهَا عَيْهَلًا رَسُومَا

(S, * TA,) i. e. [Many a region] that exhibits to the impotent that which he dislikes, [or that frowns upon the weak, or impotent, I have chidden therein a strong she-camel that leaves the marks of her footsteps upon the ground.] (S.) You say also, الكِرَامَ ↓ الدَّهْرُ يَتَجَهَّمُ (tropical:) [Fortune frowns upon the generous]. (TA.) And أَمَلِى ↓ تَجَهَّمَنِى (tropical:) [My object of hope frowned upon me] is said when one has not attained his object of hope. (TA.)

The sky had clouds such as are termed جَهَام. (K.)

He entered upon, (K,) or journeyed in, (A, TA,) the portion of the night termed جُهْمَة. (A, K, TA.)

Clouds in which is no water: (JK, S, K:) or that have poured forth their water (K, TA) with the wind. (TA.)

A coarse, or rough, and contracted, and ugly, face; as also ↓ جَهِمٌ; (K;) or, as in some of the lexicons, ↓ جَهِيمٌ. (TA.) And جَهْمُ الوَجْهِ Frowning, or contracted, in face; or grinning in face, with a frowning, or contraction, or a stern, an austere, or a morose, look: (S, Mgh:) or coarse, or rough, in face: (JK, TA:) applied to a man: (JK, S, Mgh, TA:) and to a lion. (JK, TA.) And [hence,] الجَهْمُ The lion. (K.) -A2- See also جَهُومٌ.

See جُهْمَةٌ.

-A2- Also A big cooking-pot. (K.)

and ↓ جَهْمَةٌ, (JK, S, K,) both mentioned by Fr, (S,) A portion of the night: (JK:) the first of the last portions of the night, (JK, S, K, TA,) extending [app. from midnight] to near the period a little before daybreak: (TA:) or the remaining portion of the darkness of the last part of the night: (K:) or the former signifies, [or each,] the beginning of the night, extending to a fourth part: or, as some say, the middle of the night: (KL:) pl. of the former جُهَمٌ. (JK.) You say, مَضَى مِنَ اللَّيْلِ جُهْمَةٌ and ↓ جَهْمَةٌ [app. meaning A portion, or a portion at the commencement of the latter part, of the night passed]. (A'Obeyd, TA.) -A2- Also the former, Eighty camels: or the like. (K.)

, applied to a man, (JK, S,) Impotent; (JK, S, K;) weak; as also ↓ جَهْمٌ. (K.) See an ex. in the first paragraph.