Jastrow: קוֹמִי I

קוֹמִי I f. (κόμη) hair, esp. the gentile fashion of cutting and wearing the hair; ספר ק׳ to trim the front of the hair like a fringe on the forehead (capronæ), and let the curls hang down on the temples (antiæ; v. Sm. Ant. s. v. Coma). Sifra Aḥăré, Par. 9, ch. XIII (ref. to Lev. XVIII, 3) שלא תגדל ציצית ושלא תספור ק׳ (not ק׳ שפה, v. Rabad) that thou grow no side-locks and trim not the front. B. Kam. 83ᵃ המספר ק׳ וכ׳ he who cuts the coma transgresses the law forbidding the ways of the Amorite. Ib. אבטוליס … התירו לו לספר ק׳ וכ׳ they allowed A. b. R. to wear his hair in Roman fashion, because he associated with government people; a. e.