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غُطَامِطٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ غَطْمَطِيطٌ (IDrd, K) The sound of the sea when the waves are great and the water is abundant: (so accord. to copies of the K:) or the sound of the boiling of the sea; (so [the former] in a copy of the S; TA;) or of the boiling of the cooking-pot, and of the waves of the sea: (so in other copies of the S: TA:) and ↓ the latter word, also, the sound of water. (IDrd, TA.) -A2- And بَحْرٌ غُطَامِطٌ and ↓ غَطَوْمَطٌ and ↓ غَطْمَطِيطٌ A sea great in the waves, and abundant in the water. (K.) غُطَامِط is applied in a verse of Ru-beh to a number of men [app. as meaning (assumed tropical:) Multitudinous]. (TA voce غِطْيَمٌّ, by which it is followed.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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