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▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤLM–1 Hbr ḥālam, Aram ḥᵃlam, Syr ḥᵊlmā, Ar ḥalama, Soq ḥlm, Mhr Ḥrs ḥáyləm, Jib ḥélm, Gz Te ḥalma, Tña ḥalama, Amh allämä ‘rêver’; Ug ḥlm, Phn ḥlm, Hbr ḥalōm, oEmpAram ḥlm, JP Syr ḥelmā, Sab ḥlm, Mhr ḥāləm, ḥām, Ḥrs ḥāləm, Jib ḥum ‘rêve’; Gz ḥəlm, Amh ʔəlm ‘songe’; Sab ḥlmt ‘prophétesse, voyante’; Ar ĭḥtalama, Te täḥallämä, Mhr əḥtəlūm, Jib aḥtélím ‘avoir une pollution nocture’, Sab mḥtlm ‘qui a eu une pollution nocture’.

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▪ [v2]: DRS 9 (2010) regards ‘to have wet dreams, nightly pollutions’ (↗ĭḥtalama) as a specialisation of ‘dream, to dream’. So also Badawi/AbdelHaleem2008, who, following Lane and some ClassAr lexicographers, also interpret ‘sexual maturity, puberty’ (↗ḥulum) as the age that starts with having nightly pollutions. Semantically, one could even think of the idea of ‘insight, wisdom’ etc. (↗ḥilm) as being dependent on having reached ‘maturity’. Etymologically, however, this is not necessarily true.

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► ḥulm al-yaqẓaẗ, n., daydream.

► ^BP#1895ḥalama, u, vb. I, 1a to dream (bi‑ or ʕan of; fī ʔan of being, becoming, doing, etc., in the future); b to muse, reflect, meditate (bi‑ on s.th.): denom.?; 2 to attain puberty: perhaps from, or belonging to, ↗ḥulum rather than to ḥulm.
ḥulmī, adj., dream (in compounds), of or pertaining to dreams: nsb-adj.
► ḥālim, adj., dreamy, dreamlike; (pl. ‑ūn) dreamer.

For ‘sexual maturity, puberty’ see ↗ḥulum.

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