جثم1 جَثَمَ, aor. ـِ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and جَثُمَ, (S, K,) inf. جُثُومٌ  (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and جَثْمٌ, (K,) said of a bird, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and of a hare, and sometimes of a gazelle, (Msb,) or of a [young gazelle such as is termed] خَشْف, (K,) and of a camel, (Msb, K,) and a jerboa, (K,) and a man, (S, K,) He clave to the ground: (S, K:) or kept to his place, not quitting it: (K:) or fell upon his breast: (Msb, * K:) جُثُومٌ in the case of a bird and a hare is like بُرُوكٌ in the case of a camel: (Msb:) or in the case of a bird it is like جُلُوسٌ in the case of a man [so that the verb means he sat]. (Mgh.) b2: Also, (K,) aor. ـِ (TA,) said of seed-produce, It rose a little from the ground. (K, * TA.) b3:  Also, (AHn, K,) aor. ـُ (AHn, TA,) inf. n. جُثُومٌ, said of a raceme of a palm-tree, Its unripe, or ripening, dates became somewhat large: (AHn, K: *) or it became large, and kept its place. (T, TA.) b4:  Also, inf. n. جُثُومٌ, said of the night, (assumed tropical:)  It became half spent. (Th, K, TA.) A2:  جَثَمَ also signifies He collected clay, or mould, and earth, or dust, and ashes. (K.) 2 جثّم, (S, Mgh,) inf. n. تَجْثِيمٌ, (KL,) [He made a bird, and a hare, and the like, to cleave to the ground, then to be shot at, or cast at, and so killed: see مُجَثَّةٌ:] he kept, or held, a bird confined, that it might [be shot at, or cast at, and] die: (KL:) he turned an animal on his side to be slaughtered. (Golius, as from the KL, but not in my copy of that work.) 5 تجثّم He (a bird) mounted his female for the purpose of copulation. (TA.) جَثْمٌ Seed-produce rising a little from the ground; as also ↓ جَثَمٌ. (K, * TA.) b2:  A raceme of a palm-tree having its unripe, or ripening, dates becoming somewhat large. (K, * TA.) جَثَمٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.جُثَمٌ: see جَثَّامَةٌ: b2:  and جُثَامٌ.جَثْمَةٌ: see جُثُومٌ.جُثْمَةٌ Clay, or mould, and earth, or dust, and ashes, collected. (K.) جَثَمَةٌ: see جُثُومٌ.جُثَمَةٌ: see جَثَّامَةٌ: b2:  and جُثَامٌ.جُثْمَانٌ The body, with the limbs or members; syn. جِسْمٌ: and i. q. شَخْصٌ [app. as meaning a person; not, as J seems to have held, a corporeal, or material, form or thing or substance, such as is seen from a distance; see جِسْمٌ]: (K:) or, accord. to As, it has the latter meaning, i. q.  شَخْصٌ; and جُسْمَانٌ has the former meaning, that of جِسْمٌ (S, Msb) and جَسَدٌ: (Msb:) or, accord. to Az, جُثْمَانٌ is syn. with جُسْمَانٌ, (S, Msb,) i. e. جَسَدٌ. (S.) One says, مَا أَحْسَنَ جُثْمَانَ الرَّجُلِ and جُسْمَانَهُ, meaning [How goodly, or beautiful, is] the body, or person, of the man ! (Az, S.) J cites, as an ex. of this word in the sense of شخص, from a verse of Bishr, سَنَامٌ كَجُثْمَانِ البَنِيِّةِ أَتْلَعَا observing that by البنيّة is meant the Kaabeh: but IB says that the right reading, as found in his poetry, is البَلِيَّةِ, and أَتْلَعُ; and that the meaning is, A [long] hump like the جثمان [or body] of the she-camel that is placed [and confined without food or water until she dies] at the grave of a dead man. (TA.) One says also, جَآءَنَا بِثَرِيدٍكَجُثْمَانِ المَآءِ [He brought us crumbled bread moistened with broth and piled up, like the body of the bird of the kind called قَطًا]. (S.) جُثْمَانِيَّةُ المَآءِ, as used in the saying of ElFarajeeyeh, (K,) so in the copies of the K, [or El-Faraheeyeh, accord. to the CK,] but correctly of El-Farezdak, (TA,) وَبَاتَتْ بِجُثْمَانِيَّةِ المَآءِ نِيبُهَاإِلَى ذَاتِ رَحْلٍ كَالْمَآتِمِ حُسَّرَا means The water itself: or the middle thereof: or the place where it collected. (K TA.) [The poet says, And her aged she-camels passed the night in the water, &c., . . . . like the companies of mourning women having the head, or the face, &c., uncovered: but what is meant by الي ذات رحل, unless it be with one having a saddle upon her, إِلَى being sometimes used in the sense of مَعَ I am unable to conjecture. In the CK, نَيْبَها and كالمٰاثِمِ are erroneously put for نِيبُهَا and كَالمَآتِمِ.]جُثَامٌ Incubus, or nightmare; (T, K;) what  comes upon a man when he is sleeping; (T, TA;) what comes upon a man in the night, preventing him from speaking; i. q. نَيْدُلَانٌ; (IAar, TA;) as also ↓ جَاثُومٌ (T, K) and ↓ جَثَّامَةٌ and ↓ جُثَمٌ and ↓ جُثَمَةٌ. (T, TA.) جَثُومٌ: see جَاثِمٌ. b2:  Hence, (assumed tropical:)  A hare. (TA.) جُثُومٌ pl. of جاثِمٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) A2:  Also A hill such as is called أَكَمَةٌ; and so ↓ جَثَمَةٌ (K) and ↓ جَثْمَةٌ (TA.) جَثَّامٌ: see جَاثِمٌ.جَثَّامَةٌ: see جَاثِمٌ. b2:  Hence, (tropical:)  A man who keeps to the region of cities, towns, villages, or cultivated land, and does not travel: (Msb:) a man who sleeps much, and does not travel; as also ↓ جُثَمَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ جُثَمٌ and ↓ جَاثُومٌ: (K:) [see also جَاثِمَةٌ:] stupid, dull, wanting in intelligence; or not penetrating, sharp, vigorous, or effective, in the performing of affairs: and a forbearing, or clement, personage, chief, or man of rank or quality. (K.) b3:  See also جُثَامٌ.جَاثِمٌ A bird, (Msb, K,) and a hare, and sometimes a gazelle, (Msb,) or a [young gazelle such as is termed] خِشْف, (K,) and a camel, (Msb, K,) and a jerboa, and a man, (K,) cleaving to the ground: or keeping to his place, not quitting it: (K:) or falling upon his breast: (Msb, * K:) as also ↓ جَثُومٌ: (K:) [or the latter] and ↓ جَثَّامٌ doing so much, or often: and ↓ جَثَّامَةٌ doing  so very much, or very often: (Msb:) and the first, also, sitting upon his legs like a bird: pl. جُثُومٌ (TA) [and جُثَّمٌ, accord. to Freytag].فَأَصْبَحُوا فِى دَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ, in the Kur [vii. 76, &c.], means [And they became, in their abode,] bodies cast upon the ground: (TA:) or extinct, or motionless; and dead. (Bd.) b2:  الجُثثومُ (tropical:)  The stars composing the constellation of the Scorpion; also called البُرُكُ: see بَرْكْ. (L and TA in art. برك.) جَاثِمَةٌ One who does not quit his house, or tent. (Lth, TA.) [See also جَثَّامَةٌ.]جَاثُوُمٌ: see جَثَّامَةٌ: b2:  and جُثَامٌ.مَجْثَمٌ [and مَجْثِمٌ A place where a bird, &c., cleaves to the ground: or to which it keeps: or where it falls upon its breast. And particularly,] The seat, or form, of a hare: (TA:) [pl. مَجَاثِمُ.]مُجَثَّمَةٌ A bird, and a hare, and the like, that is confined or set up, to be killed; (A'Obeyd, S, Mgh;) that is made to cleave to the ground (تُجَثَّمُ), and then shot at, or cast at, until it is killed; (S, Mgh;) which manner of killing is forbidden: (S:) or any animal that is set up and shot at, or cast at, and [so] killed: (A'Obeyd, TA:) or a sheep, or goat, that is shot at with arrows: ('Ikrimeh, Mgh:) or a sheep, or goat, that is stoned (Sh, Mgh, TA) until it dies, and is then eaten. (TA.) جثو and جثى 1 جَثَا and جَثَى (S, Msb, K) عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ, (S, Msb,) aor. ـُ and 1َ2ِ3َ, inf. n. جُثُوُّ and جُثِىُّ, (S, Msb, K,) He sat upon his knees; (K, TA;)  for the purpose of contention or disputation, or the like: (TA:) or جثا [and جثى] he kneeled; put  himself in a kneeling posture; which is the mode of sitting of him who is contending or disputing: (Az, Har p. 512:) [or he put down his knees upon the ground and raised his buttocks; i. e. he kneeled with his body and thighs erect, or nearly so : see جَاثٍ:] and جَثَا لِرُكْبَتِهِ he fell [upon his knee]; and جَثَوْا لِلرُّكَبِ [they fell upon the knees, and sank backwards so as to rest the body upon the keels or upon the left foot bent sideways beneath; for] جُثُوٌّ is the manner of sitting of the مُتَشَهِّد [in prayer]: (Ham p. 287:) or جَثَا, (K, TA,) inf. n. جَثْوٌ and جُثُوٌ, (TA,) he stood upon the extremities of his toes; (K;) like جَذَا; from  which AO reckons it to be formed by substitution [of ث for ذ]; but IJ says that they are two dial. vars. (TA.) Aboo-Thumámeh says, أُخَاصِمُهُمْ مَرَّپً قَائِمًا وَأَجْثُو إِذَا مَا جَثَوْا لِلرُّكَبْ [I contending, or disputing, with them one time standing, and falling upon my knees when they fell upon their knees]. (Ham p. 287.) A2:  جَثَوْتُ, (Sgh, K,) inf. n. جَثْوٌ; (TA;) and جَثَيْتُ, (Sgh, K,) inf. n. جَثْىٌ; (TA;) I collected camels, and sheep or goats. (Sgh, K.) 3 جَاَُيْتُ رُكْبَتِى إِلَى رُكْبَتِهِ, (K, and so in some copies of the S,) or جَاثَيْتُهُ رُكْبَتِى إِلَى رُكْبَتِهِ, (so in other copies of the S,) [I sat, or sat with him, with my knee to his knee, each of us sitting upon his knees, in contending or disputing: see 1]: and جَاثَيْتُهُ alone, (S voce حَاضَرْتُهُ,) [signifies the same,] inf. n. مُجَاثَاةٌ (K and TA voce مُحَاَضرَةٌ) [and جِثَآءٌ: see also 6].4 اجثاهُ (S, K) He made him to sit upon his knees: [see 1:] or he made him to stand upon the extremities of his toes. (K.) 6 تَجَاثَوْا عَلَى الرُّكَب [They sat together upon their knees], (S, K,) in contending or disputing; inf. n. مُجَاثَاةٌ and جِثَآءٌ, which are [properly inf. ns. of 3, but are] thus used as inf. ns. of a verb to which they do not conform. (TA.) b2: التَّجَاثِى فِى إِشَالَةِ الحَجَرِ is like التَّجَاذِ ى [The vying, one with another, in lifting the stone, for trial of strength]. (TA.) جُثًا, or جُثًى, [pl. of جُثْوَةٌ, q. v.A2:  Also] A company, or congregated body, of men; (TA;) or so ↓ جَثْوَةٌ (Bd in xlv. 27) [or ↓ جُثْوَةٌ]: and companies, or congregated bodies, thereof. (TA.) It has the former meaning in a trad., where it is said, يَصِيرُونَ يَوْمَ القِيَامَةِ جُثًا كُلُّ أُمَّةٍ تَتْبَعُ نَبِيَّهَا [They shall become, on the day of resurrection, a company, or congregated body, each people following its prophet: or here the pl. meaning is more reasonable]: and the latter in the trad., فُلَانٌ مِنْ جُثَى جَهَنَّمَ [Such a one is of the companies, or congregated bodies, of Hell, or Hellfire], accord. to one recital: otherwise, ↓ مِنْ جُثِىِّ جَهَنَّمَ of those that sit upon the knees therein. (TA.) A3:  الجُثَا is also said to have been A certain idol, to which sacrifices were performed. (TA.) جَثْوَةٌ: see what next follows, in two places: b2:  and see جُثًا.جُثْوَةٌ and ↓ جِثْوَةٌ and ↓ جَثْوَةٌ Stones collected together: (S, K:) or the stones of earth collected together like the [mound over a] grave: and the first, a hillock: or a heap of earth: (TA:) or collected earth: (Ham p. 399:) or a quantity collected of earth &c.: (Ham p. 381:) and (hence, Ham p. 381) a grave: (TA, Ham pp. 381 and 399:) pl. جُثًا, (TA, Ham p. 399,) or جُثْى. (Ham ib.) It is said in a trad., رَأَيْتُ قُبُورَ الشُّهَدَآءِ جُثًا I saw the tombs of the martyrs [to be] collections of earth. (TA.) And جُثَى الحَرَمِ (pl. of جُثْوَةٌ, TA) and جِثَى الحَرَمِ (pl. of ↓ جِثْوَةٌ, TA) signify What are collected, in the sacred territory, of the stones of the جِمَار [or pebbles cast at Minè]: (S:) or this is a mistake; (K;) pointed out by Sgh in the TS: (TA:) the meaning is, what are collected together of the stones that are set [in heaps] at the limits of the sacred territory: or the أَنْصَاب [or stones set up around the Kaabeh] upon which victims were slain in sacrifice. (K, TA.) A2:  Also i. q. جَذْوَةٌ [A live coal; or piece of fire; &c.]: (K:) or so ↓ جَثْوَةٌ and ↓ جَثْوَةٌ: (TA:) or جثوةٌ مِنْ نَارٍ: (Fr, TA:) asserted by Yaakoob to be formed by substitution [of ث for ذ]. (TA.) A3:  And The middle [of a thing]. (IAar, K, TA: but omitted in the CK and in a MS. copy of the K.) A4:  And The body, with the limbs or members; syn. جَسَدٌ: (K:) or so جُثْوَةٌ: pl. جُثًى. (Sh, TA.) b2:  And جُثْوَةٌ, A great, or large, man. (ISh, TA.) A5:  See also جُثًا.جِثْوَةٌ: see جُثْوَةٌ, in three places.جَثَآءٌ i. q. شَخْصٌ [app. as meaning A person; or the body of a man, like جُثْوَةٌ and جُثَّةٌ]; as also ↓ جُثَآءٌ. (Sgh, K.) b2:  [And hence, perhaps,] Incubus, or nightmare. (TA. [But in this sense it is written in the TA جثا, without ء, and without any syll. sign.]) A2:  Also i. q. جَزَآءٌ [Requital, or compensation]. (K.) b2:  And Quantity, measure, size, bulk, or extent; and amount, sum, or number, (K, TA,) as, for instance, of a people, or company of men. (TA.) جُثَآءٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.جَاثٍ Sitting upon his knees: or standing upon the extremities of his toes: (K:) and [simply] sitting: or [kneeling with his body and thighs erect, or nearly so; i. e.] putting down his knees [upon the ground] and raising his buttocks: (TA:) [see also 1, of which it is the part. n.:] pl. جُثِىٌ and جِثِىٌّ; (K;) or these may be pls., like بُكىٌّ and بكىٌ, pls. of بَاك; or inf. ns. used as epithets [as is indicated in the S]. (Er-Rághib, TA.) You say قَوْمٌ جُثِىٌّ [A company of men sitting upon their knees]; (S, Msb;) like as you say جَلَسَ جُلُوسًا and قَوْمٌ جُلُوسٌ. (S.) and hence, in the Kur [xix. 73], وَنَذَرُ الظَّالِمِينَ فِيهَا جُثِيًّا, and جِثِيًّا also, with kesr to the ج because of the kesr of the letter following it, [And we will leave the wrongdoers therein, sitting upon their knees.] (S.) And فُلَانٌ مِنْ جُثِىِّ جَهَنَّمَ: see جُثًا. (TA.) And, in the Kur [xlv. 27], وَتَرَي كُلَّ أُمَّةٍ جَاثِيَةً (TA) And thou shalt see every people sitting upon the knees, (Bd, Jel,) in an upright posture, not at ease: (Bd:) or congregated; (Bd, Jel;) from جَثْوَةٌ signifying “ a company,” or “ congregated body. ” (Bd.) Whence, (TA,) سُورَةُ الجَاثِيَةِ The [forty-fifth] chapter, of the Kur-án, next after that called الدُّخَان. (S, TA.) b2:  [الجَاثِى, or الجَاثِى عَلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ, (assumed tropical:)  The constellation Hercules.]مَجْثًى A place of sitting upon the knees.]