زَرِمٌ

1.
Anything becoming interrupted, or stopped; stopping, or ceasing; as also أَزْرَمُ. (TA.) Scanty, or little in quantity, and becoming interrupted, or stopped: so in the phrase رَجُلٌ زَرِمُ الدَّمْعِ: or this signifies [simply] a man whose tears are becoming interrupted, or stopped. (TA.)
2.
A she-camel that interrupts her flow of urine by little and little. (AA, TA. [Thus used as a feminine epithet without ة.])
3.
A dog, and a cat, whose dung, or dry dung, has stopped in his rectum. (TA.)
4.
Straitened [apparently in his means of subsistence]. (S.)
5.
Niggardly, or avaricious. (S.)
6.
Low, object, mean, or ignominious, whose near kinsfolk are few; (IAar, K;) as also زَرِيمٌ. (TA.)
7.
One who does not remain fixed, or settled, in any place. (As, K.)

Perseus ID: n17710