سَايءِمٌ

[Going, or going away, engaged, or occupied, in seeking, or in seeking for or after, or in seeking to find and take or to get, a thing: (see 1, first sentence:)] going away at random, or roving, wherever he will. (TA.) And [particularly], (S,) as also ↓ سَوَامٌ (As, S, M, K) and سَايءِمَةٌ, (As, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) Cattle, (مَالٌ, S, TA, or مَاشِيَةٌ, Mgh, Msb,) or camels, (As, M, K, TA,) and sheep or goats, (TA,) pasturing (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K, TA) by themselves (Msb) where they please; (TA;) or sent forth to pasture, and not fed with fodder among the family [to whom they belong]; (As, Mgh, TA;) or pasturing in the deserts, left to go and pasture where they will: (TA:) the plural of سَايءِمٌ and of سَايءِمَةٌ is سَوَايءِمُ: (S:) the pass. particle n. مُسَامٌ is not used. (Msb.) It is said in a tradition, فِى سَايءِمَةِ الغَنَمِ زَكَاةٌ [In the case of pasturing sheep or goats, there is a poor-rate]. (TA.) And in another tradition, السَّايءِمَةُ جُبَارٌ, i. e. The beast (دَابَّة) that is sent away into its place of pasture, if it hurt a human being, the injury committed by it is a thing for which no mulct is exacted. (TA.) And it is related in a tradition respecting the emigration to Abyssinia, that the Nejáshee said to those who had emigrated to his country, اُمْكُثُوا فَأَنْتُمْ سُيُومٌ بِأَرَضِى, i. e. [Tarry ye, and ye will be] secure [in my land]: IAth says that thus it is explained: and سيوم is [said to be] an Abyssinian word: it is related also with fet-h to the س: and some say that سُيُومٌ is plural of سَايءِمٌ [like as شُهُودٌ is said to be of شَاهِدٌ]; i. e., ye shall rove (تَسُومُونَ) in my country like the sheep, or goats, pasturing where they please (كَالغَنَمِ السَّايءِمَةِ), no one opposing you: (TA:) or, as some relate the tradition, it is شُيُومٌ. (TA in article شيم.)