Root: ح ل م
Words from this Root in the Grand Qur’ān:
a) Total occurrences: 21
b) No of constructions: 11 All Nouns
Ibn Faris [died 1005] stated:
(مقاييس اللغة)
الحاء واللام والميم، أصولٌ ثلاثة: الأول ترك العَجَلة، والثاني تثقُّب الشيء، والثالث رُؤية الشيء في المنام
That it has three primary significations; firstly to leave hastiness, rashness, impetuosity; something becoming punctures, pierced, perforated or ignited; and lastly seeing something in the dreams.
Another Classical Lexicon states:
حلم (لسان العرب)
الحُلْمُ والحُلُم: الرُّؤْيا، والجمع أَحْلام
والحُلْمُ الاحتلام أيضاً، يجمع على الأحْلامِ
والحِلْمُ، بالكسر: الأَناةُ والعقل، وجمعه أَحْلام وحُلُومٌ.
That it signifies: dream; and puberty - experiencing wet dream; and with genitive middle radical it signifies forbearance, endurance and gentleness.
Lane's Lexicon: to have wet dream, have a vision, attain to puberty, forbearing, to gain wisdom, patient, prudent, imperturbable; The same term, al-hilm, is used for both puberty and wet dreams, marking wet dreams an indication of puberty. He was, or became, forbearing, or clement;] he forgave and concealed [offences]: or he was, or became, moderate, gentle, deliberate, leisurely in his manner of proceeding or of deportment &c., patient as meaning contr. of hasty, grave, staid, sedate, or calm;
Classical Lexicon
In Grand Qur’ān it is used for:
1. In the meaning of attribute of forbearance, endurance, gentleness.
2. In the meanings of dreams
3. In the meaning of age of experiencing wet-dream - Semantic domain: Stages of human life.
Neuroscientists who study brainwaves may find the perception and semantic domain of this Root, which otherwise incorporates concepts apparently poles apart, quite interesting. All the three domains covered by the Root share the same state of low frequency and high amplitude brain waves.http://haqeeqat.pk/roots/(330).htm