جِسْمٌ

The body, with the limbs or members; synonym جَسَدٌ; (AZ, S, Msb;) as also ↓ جُسْمَانٌ and جُثْمَانٌ: (AZ, S, Msb: *) or جِسْمٌ and ↓ جُسْمَانٌ are synonym with جَسَدٌ; (As, S;) or signify the whole body and limbs or members of a man, (K, and T and Msb in explanation of جسم,) and of a beast, a camel, and the like, (T, Msb,) and of any other species, (K,) of large make; (T, Msb, K;) and جُثْمَانٌ is synonym with شَخْصٌ [apparently as meaning “ a person ”]; and ↓ جُسْمَانٌ signifies the whole جِسْم of a man: (As, S:) or جِسْمٌ signifies [a body, or material substance; a solid;] a thing having length and breadth and thickness; so that, when it is cut and divided, no portion thereof ceases to be a جِسْم; whereas a شَخْص [meaning “ a person ”] ceases to be a شَخْص by its being divided: (Er-Rághib, TA:) a thing that is capable of being divided in length and breadth and thickness is called جِسْمٌ طَبِيعِىٌّ, and also, because it is a subject of investigation, or inquiry, in instruction in the mathematical studies, جِسْمٌ تَعْلِيمِىٌّ: (KT:) plural [of pauc.] أَجْسَامٌ and [of mult] جُسُومٌ. (K.) You say, ثَابَ جِسْمُهُ, (M, A, K, in article ثوب,) and أَثَابَ جِسْمُهُ, (IKt, M, ib.,) and ثَابَ إِلَيْهِ جِسْمُهُ, (T, M, A, ib.,) (tropical:) He became fat, after leanness; (A;) his good state of body returned to him; (M, K; *) his condition of body became good, after extenuation; and health, or soundness, thereof returned to him. (T.) And ↓ إِنَّهُ لَحَنِيفُ الجُسْمَانِ [Verily he is slender, spare, or lean, of body]. (TA.)

الأَجْسَامُ المُخْتَلِفَةُ الطَّبَايءِعِ [The material substances of different natures; also called الأَجْسَامُ السَّبْعَةُ the seven material substances, and الفِلِذَاتُ; namely,] the عَنَاصِر [which are the four elements, fire, air, earth, and water,] and the three products composed of these, (KT,) which are minerals, vegetables, and animals. (Note in a copy of the KT.) الأَجْسَامُ الطَّبِيعِيَّهُ, as used by those who study to discover occult things, signifies The عَرْش and the كُرْسِىّ: and الأَجْسَامُ العُنْصُرِيَّةُ, everything beside these two, of the heavens and the [elements termed] أُسْطُقُسَات therein. (KT.)