Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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طَغَامٌ ذ Low, ignoble, mean, or sordid, and weak, persons, such as serve for the food of their bellies; or stupid, weak in intellect, low, ignoble, mean, or sordid: (S, K, TA:) and applied to a single person as well as to a pl. number. (S, TA.) ― -b2- And The inferior, or meaner, sorts of birds, (S, K, TA,) [contr. of عِتَاقُ الطَّيْرِ,] and some add, and of beasts, or birds, of prey: (TA:) n. un. with ة; (S, K;) applied to the male and the female. (Yaakoob, S.) It has no verb; and its derivation is not known. (S.) ― -b3- يَا طَغَامَ الأَحْلَامِ, said by 'Alee to the people of El-'Irák, is a phrase of the same class as إِِشْفَى المِرْفَقِ, [i. e. an instance of a subst. used as an epithet,] as though he said يَا ضِعَافَ الأَحْلَامِ [O ye weak in respect of the qualities of forbearance]. (TA.) ― -b4- طَغَامُ الكَلَامِ means (tropical:) Low, or vile, speech: one says, كَلَامُ الطَّغَامِ طَغَامُ الكَلَامِ (tropical:) [The speech of the low, ignoble, &c., is low, or vile, speech]. (TA.)