Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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بَمٌّ

بَمٌّ [The bass in music; used in this sense in the present day: or particularly the bass notes of the lute: in this sense F seems to have understood the saying of ISd that] the بَمّ of the lute is well known: (M, Ḳ: [in the CK, البَمَّ مِنَ العُوْدِ او الوَتَرِ الخ is erroneously put for البَمُّ مِنَ العُودِ مٓ أَوِ الوَتَرُ الخ:]) or (so in the Ḳ) it is the thick [or bass] chord of the lute: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) the word is foreign: (M:) [in Persian بَمْ:] Az says that it is not Arabic. (TA.)


بُمٌّ

بُمٌّ i. q. بُومٌ, q. v. (Ḳ.)


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