Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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زَمَعٌ ذ ; see زَمَاعٌ. -A2- Also pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of ↓ زَمَعَةٌ , which [is the n. un. of the former, and] signifies A certain excrescence bekind the cloven hoof: (AZ, S, Msb, * K:) or a thing like the nails of sheep or goats, in the part between the shank and foot; every leg having upon it two of the things thus termed (زَمَعَتَانِ), as though they were formed of pieces of horn: (Lth, K:) or a certain excrescence projecting above the hoof of the sheep or goat: (TA:) or the pendent hairs in the kinder part of the kind leg, or kind foot, of the sheep or goat, and of the gazelle, and of the hare: (K:) [the pl. of ↓ زَمَعَةٌ is زَمَعَاتٌ (occurring in the S and K in the present art., and in the K in art. زود &c.), and] the pl. of زَمَعٌ is زِمَاغٌ: (AZ, S, K:) see زَمُوعٌ. ― -b2- Hence, as being compared to the زَمَع of the cloven hoof, (L,) زَمَعٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The lower, or baser, or the lowest, or basest, or the refuse, of mankind: (S, L, K:) pl. أَزْمَاعٌ. (L.) One says, هُوَ مِنْ زَمَعِهِمْ, meaning (assumed tropical:) He is of the last of them; (S, L;) and of their followers. (L.) ― -b3- Also, i. e. زَمَعٌ The hairs behind the fetlock [-joint]; (K;) and so زَمَعَاتٌ [pl. of the n. un. ↓ زَمَعَةٌ ]. (TA.) ― -b4- Also (tropical:) Knots, gems, or buds, in the places whence the racemes of the grape-vine come forth: (ISh, K, TA:) accord. to Et-Táïfee, (L in art. كمح,) [the n. un.] ↓ زَمَعَةٌ signifies the knot, or gem, in the place whence the raceme of grapes grows forth: (L ubi suprà, and TA:) or, as some say, the berry when it is like the head of a young ant; and the pl. is زَمَعَاتٌ and [coll. gen. n.] زَمَعٌ: (TA:) and (assumed tropical:) the gem of a leaf: (L in art. كمخ:) and زَمَعُ الكَرْمِ (assumed tropical:) The leaves that cover what is within them of the raceme of the grape-vine. (TA voce كَافُورٌ.) ― -b5- Also (assumed tropical:) An excrescence, or a redundance, (زِيَادَةٌ,) in the fingers or toes: and the epithet [applied to him who has such] is ↓ أَزْمَعُ . (K.) ― -b6- And Scattered portions of herbage, here and there; like portions of clouds in the sky. (TA.)