رَايءِمٌ

, (T, M,) or رَايءِمَةٌ, (S,) or both, (K,) and ↓ رَوءُومٌ, (T, S, M, K,) [but the last has probably an intensive signification,] A she-camel that loves, (T, S,) or affects, or inclines to, and keeps to, or cleaves to, (M, K,) her young one, (T, S, M, K,) or the young one of another: if she do not so, but smells it, and does not yield her milk to it, she is termed عَلُوقٌ: so says A'Obeyd, on the authority of As: (T: [see the former of the two verses cited in the first paragraph of this article:]) the plural of رَايءِمَةٌ is رَوَايءِمُ. (TA.)

Hence, الرَّوَايءِمُ signifies (tropical:) The three stones whereon the cooking-pot is placed; what are called الأَثَافِى; (T, M, K, TA;) that have remained cleaving to the ashes: (T, K:) because of their cleaving to the ashes: (M:) the ashes being as though they were their young. (T, K.)