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دَسِمٌ أدسم دسم A thing greasy; or having in it, or upon it, grease or gravy, (M, Mgh,) of flesh-meat or of fat: (Mgh:) [and dirty, or filthy: pl. دُسْمٌ; like as ذُرْبٌ is pl. of ذَرِبٌ.] You say مَرَقَةٌ دَسِمَةٌ [Greasy broth]. (TA.) And ثِيَابٌ دُسْمٌ, Dirty, or filthy, garments. (S, TA.) And دَسِمَ الثَّوْبِ, applied to a man, [Dirty in the garment: and hence, going on foot;] not riding; as also ↓ أَدْسَمُ الثَّوْبِ. (TA.) [Hence also,] (assumed tropical:) Defiled by culpable dispositions. (TA.) A rájiz says, “ لَاهُمَّ إِِنَّ عَامِرَ بْنَ جَهْمِ
أَوْذَمَ حَجًّا فِى ثِيَابٍ دُسْمِ
” meaning (assumed tropical:) [O God, verily 'Ámir Ibn-Jahm] hath imposed upon himself, (S in art. وذم,) or hath performed, (M,) pilgrimage being defiled by sins. (S in art. وذم, and M.) ― -b2- عِمَامَةٌ دَسِمَةٌ signifies A black turban; (TA;) as also عمامة ↓ دَسْمَآءُ . (Az, Mgh, TA.) And دَسِمٌ occurs in a trad. as meaning (assumed tropical:) Strict, or pious, [though] black, (أَسْوَدُ, [or this may here mean a genuine Arab, as opposed to أَحْمَرُ meaning a foreigner,]) and religious. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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