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أَدْغَمُ ذ A horse of a colour inclining to blackness, (S, K,) or of a black colour, (Mgh,) in the face and the part next the lips, (S,) or in the face and the lips, (K,) or in the face and the muzzle, (Mgh,) differing from, (S, Mgh,) or blacker than, (K,) the colour of the other parts of the body; (S, Mgh, K;) called in Pers. دَيْزَج [or rather دِيزَهْ, from which دَيْزَجٌ is arabicized]; (AO, * S, Mgh, K;) in some instances, without any admixture of خُضْرَة [here meaning dark, or ashy, dust-colour]: (AO, TA:) it is also applied as an epithet to a wolf: and the fem. is دَغْمَآءُ: and the pl. is دُغْمٌ: (S:) the masc. is also applied to a ram, meaning having any, the least, blackness; especially in the end of the nose and beneath the chin: and the fem. to a ewe, meaning black in the end of the nose and in the chin; (TA;) or, thus applied, black in the face: (JK:) and the masc. also signifies black in the nose: (JK, K:) in which sense it has for its pl. دُغْمَانٌ: (TA:) accord. to the K [and the JK], دُغْمٌ, a pl. of أَدْغَمُ, signifies white; as though it had two contr. meanings; but this is a mistranscription for دُعْمٌ, with the unpointed ع. (TA.) It is said in a prov., الذّئْبُ أَدْغَمُ [The wolf is blackish in the face and in the part next the lips, not being so in the other parts; or rather, is black in the nose]: for, whether he lap from a vessel or not, دُغْمَة is a necessary characteristic of the wolf, [all] wolves being دُغْم; and therefore he is sometimes, or often, suspected of having lapped from a vessel when he is [really] hungry: the prov. is applied to him who is regarded with a wish for the like of that which he has not obtained. (S.) ― -b2- Also One who snuffles; i. e., speaks from [i. e. through] his nose; (JK, K, TA;) i. e. i. q. أَخَنُّ. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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