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دَهْمٌ أدهم دهم A malicious, or mischievous, or grievous, act, by which one takes others unawares, or by surprise. (TA from a trad.) -A2- Also, (S, TA,) or ↓ دُهْمٌ , (JK, and so in one place in the TA,) A numerous company: (Lth, JK, TA:) or a multitude: pl.دُهُومٌ. (S.) A rájiz says, “ جِئْنَا بِدَهْمٍ يَدْهَمُ
مَجْرٍ كَأَنَّ فَوْقَهُ النُّجُومَا
” [We came with a numerous company that would overwhelm the other numerous companies; a great army, as though the stars were above it]. (S, TA.) [See also دَهْمَآءُ, voce أَدْهَمُ.] And one says, هُوَ ↓ مَاأَدْرَى أَىُّ الدُّهْمِ , and ا@للّٰهِ هُوَ ↓ أَىُّ دُهْمِ , (JK, K, TA,) or اىّ الدَّهْمِ هو, and اىّ دَهْمِ اللّٰه هو, (so in the CK and in my MS. copy of the K,) i. e. I know not what one of the creation, or of mankind, he is, and what one of the creatures of God he is. (K, * TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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