سَقِيمٌ

Diseased, disordered, distempered, sick, or ill; (S, K, TA;) as also ↓ سَقِمٌ: (TA:) or long diseased &c.: (Msb:) plural of the former سِقَامٌ, (Msb, K,) like كِرَامٌ plural of كَرِيمٌ. (Msb.) See also مِسْقَامٌ, and مُسْقِمٌ. The phrase إِنِي سَقِيمٌ, occurring in the Qur'an, 37:87, as a saying of Abraham, is explained by some as meaning [Verily I am] smitten with the طَاعُون [or pestilence]: or the meaning is, I shall be diseased at a future time, when the period shall have come; and it is said that he inferred, from looking at the stars, the time of a fever's coming to him: or it means (assumed tropical:) verily I am sick of your worshipping what is not God: IAth says that, in truth, it is one of his three lies; all of which were for the sake of God and his religion. (TA.) You say also قَلْبٌ سَقِيمٌ (tropical:) [A diseased, a sickly, or an unsound, heart]: and فَهْمٌ سَقِيمٌ (tropical:) [Diseased, unsound, faulty, or weak, understanding]: and كَلَامٌ سَقِيمٌ (tropical:) [Unsound, faulty, or weak, language]. (TA.) And هُوَ سَقِيمُ الصَّدْرِ عَلَيْهِ (tropical:) He is affected with rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite, against him. (TA.)