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غُمَّةٌ ذ : see غَمٌّ, first sentence: ― -b2- and also in the latter half. ― -b3- Also, (assumed tropical:) Perplexity, and dubiousness, or confusedness: pl. غُمَمٌ: one says, هُوَ فِى غُمَّةٍ (assumed tropical:) He is in a state of perplexity, and dubiousness, or confusedness: (Msb:) and هُوَ فِى غُمَّةٍ مِنْ أَمْرِهِ (assumed tropical:) He is in a state of perplexity and darkness [in respect of his case or affair]; from الغَمُّ signifying “ the act of covering ” [a thing]. (Ham p. 320.) [See also غِمَّةٌ and غَمَّآءُ.] And one says أَمْرٌ غُمَّةٌ (assumed tropical:) A dubious, confused, or vague, case or affair. (S, K. *) [See also غُمَّى.] It is said in the Kur [x. 72], ثُمَّ لَا يَكُنْ أَمْرُكُمْ عَلَيْكُمْ غُمَّةً i. e. (tropical:) [Then let not your case be to you one of] darkness, and straitness, and anxiety: (A'Obeyd, S, TA:) or, as some say, covered, veiled, or concealed. (TA.) And أَرْضٌ غُمَّةٌ means (assumed tropical:) A strait, or narrow, land. (TA.) ― -b4- Also The bottom of the interior of a skin for clarified butter (S, K) &c. (S.) [See also the first sentence in art. غمل.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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