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1 دَمَّ دم , (S, M, Msb, K, &c.,) aor. دَمُ3َ , (S, M, Msb,) inf. n. دَمٌّ, (T, M, Msb,) He smeared, or did over, (S, M, Msb, K,) a thing, (S, M, K, *) or the face, (Msb,) with any kind of dye [or the like]: (S, Msb:) and a house, or chamber, with [plaster of] gypsum, (T, M, K,) or with mud or clay, (T,) and with [a wash of] quick lime: (TA:) and a ship with tar: (M, K:) and an eye, externally, (Lth, T, K,) or a pained eye, externally, (M,) with a دِمَام, (Lth, T, M, K,) i. e. any medicinal liniment, (Lth, T,) such as aloes, and saffron; (TA;) as also ↓ دمّم : (Kr, M, K:) [or this latter, probably, has an intensive signification: see also R. Q. 1:] and دَمَّتْ, aor. and inf. n. as above, said of a woman, she smeared the parts around her eye with aloes or saffron: (M:) or دَمَّتِ العَيْنَ she applied a collyrium to the eye; or smeared it with a دِمَام. (Msb.) You say also, دَمَّ القِدْرِ, aor. and inf. n. as above, He smeared, or did over, the [stone] cooking-pot with blood or spleen, [or with liver, (see دَمِيمٌ,]) after repairing it: (Lh, M:) and دُمَّت it (the [stone] cooking-pot) was smeared, or done over, with blood or spleen [or liver], after it had been repaired: (T:) or was plastered with mud or clay, and with gypsum. (TA.) And دَمَّ الصَّدْعِ, aor. and inf. n. as above, He smeared over the crack with blood and burnt hair mixed together; as also ↓ دَمَّمَهُ . (M.) ― -b2- [Hence,] دُمَّ بِالشَّحْمِ, said of a camel &c., (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, loaded [or overspread] with fat; syn. أَوْقَرَ or أُوْقِرَ. (So accord. to different copies of the S.) And دُمَّ [alone], inf. n. as above, (tropical:) He (a camel) had much fat and flesh, so that one could not feel in him the prominence of a bone. (T, TA.) And دُمَّ وَجْهُهُ حُسْنًا (assumed tropical:) His face was [flushed,] as though it were overspread, with beauty. (M.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] بِمَ دَمَّتْ عَيْنَاهَا, [so I find it written, but I think it should be دُمَّتْ,] meaning (tropical:) What did she bring forth? or what has she brought forth? a male or a female? and دمّت فُلَانَةُ بِغُلَامٍ [the verb (here written without any vowel-sign) being app. دُمَّتْ, meaning دُمَّتْ عَيْنَاهَا, because offspring, and especially boys, are among the things by which the eye is said to be refreshed, as it is by the application of a دِمَام,] (tropical:) Such a woman brought forth a boy. (TA.) ― -b4- دَمَّ الأَرْضَ, (M, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M,) He made the earth, or ground, even, (M, K,) as is done after turning it over for sowing. (M.) And دَمَّ جُحْرَهُ, said of the Jerboa, (T, S, M, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (T,) It stopped up the mouth of its hole with its نَبِيشَة [or earth which it had extracted]: (T:) or it filled up its hole with earth: (S:) or it covered over its hole and made it even. (M, K.) And دَمَّ الكَمْأَةَ He made the earth, or dust, even over the truffles. (K.) And دَمَمْتُ عَلَى الشَّىْءِ I covered over the thing; (T, TA;) as also دَمَمْتُ الشَّىْءَ: (Ham p. 461: [see also R. Q. 1:]) and in like manner, دَمَمْتُ عَلَيْهِ القَبْرَ [I covered up the grave over him]: and ↓ دَمْدَمْتُ عَلَى الشَّىْءِ I buried the thing, making the ground even over it. (T, TA. *) ― -b5- دَمَّهُ, (K,) or دَمَّ رَأْسَهُ, (T, M,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M,) (assumed tropical:) He broke his head: (M, K:) or he struck, or beat, and broke, his head: (T:) or it signifies, accord. to Lh, (M,) or signifies also, (K,) he struck, or beat, his head, (M, K,) whether he broke it or not. (M.) And دَمَّ ظَهْرَهُ, aor. and inf. n. as above, (tropical:) He struck, or beat, his back with a brick, (M, TA,) and with a staff or stick, or with a stone: a tropical meaning, as is said in the A. (TA.) ― -b6- دَمَّهُمْ, (Lh, T, M, K,) aor. as above, (Lh, T, M,) and so the inf. n., (M,) (assumed tropical:) He crushed them (طَحَنَهُمْ), and destroyed them; (Lh, T, M, K;) as also ↓ دَمْدَمَهُمْ , and عَلَيْهِمٌ ↓ دَمْدَمَ : (M, K:) or this last (دمدم عليهم) signifies He (God) destroyed them: and الشَّىْءَ ↓ دَمْدَمْتُ , I made the thing to cleave to the ground, and scattered it, or broke it, destroying it. (S.) ↓ فَدَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِمٌ رَبُّهُمْ, (M, TA,) in the Kur [xci. 14], (TA,) means And their Lord crushed them (طَحَنَهُمْ), and destroyed them: (M, TA:) or made punishment to fall, or come, upon them in common, or universally; expl. by أَطْبَقَ عَلَيْهِمُ العَذَابَ: (Zj, T, Bd, Jel, TA:) or made the earth to quake with them: (Fr, T, TA:) or was angry with them: (IAmb, T:) or spoke to them in anger: (TA:) for [the inf. n.] دَمْدَمَةٌ signifies the being angry: (M, K:) and the speaking so as to disquiet, or agitate, a man: (T, TA:) and دَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِ he spoke to him in anger. (M, K.) You say also, دَمَّ فُلَانًا, meaning He (a man, IAar, T) punished such a one fully, or completely; (IAar, T, K;) as also ↓ دَمْدَمَهُ : (TA:) [or perhaps دَمْدَمَ عَلَيْهِ; for Az says, in another place, at the close of this art.,] IAar says that دَمْدَمَ signifies he punished fully, or completely; or inflicted a full, or complete, punishment. (T.) ― -b7- دَمَّ الحِجْرَ, (K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) said of a stallion horse, He leaped the mare. (K.) ― -b8- دَمَّ, (M, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M,) also signifies He hastened; syn. أَسْرَعَ [app. in a trans. sense; for otherwise, accord. to rule, the aor. should be يَدِمُّ, with kesr]. (M, K, TA. In the CK, [erroneously,] اَصْرَعَ.) -A2- دَمَّ; (T, Msb;) sec. pers. دَمَمْتَ, (S, M, Msb, K,) aor. دَمِ3َ (Ks, Lh, T, S, M, Msb, K) and دَمُ3َ ; (S, M, K;) and دَمِمْتَ, (M, Msb, K,) aor. دَمَ3َ ; (AZ, T, Msb;) and دَمُمْتَ, (T, M, Msb, K) aor. دَمُ3َ ; (T, Msb;) inf. n. (of the last, TA, or of all, M) دَمَامَةٌ; (S, M, K;) the last of these verbs mentioned by IKtt on the authority of Kh; (TA;) and [said to be] the only instance of its kind, among reduplicative verbs, (T, Msb, TA,) except لَبُبْتَ and شَرُرْتَ (Msb, TA) and فَكُكْتَ, mentioned in the K, and عَزُزَتِ الشَّاةُ, mentioned by IKh; (TA;) He (a man, T, S, Msb) was, or became, such as is termed دَمِيم [q. v.]: (Ks, Lh, T, S, Msb:) or he did evil; syn. أَسَآءَ. (M, K. [See also 4.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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