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دَمَعَتِ العَيْنُ دمعت العين , aor. دَمَعَ , (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. دَمْعٌ (S, Msb) and دَمَعَانٌ and دُمُوعٌ; (TA;) and دَمِعَت, (AO, S, Msb, K,) aor. دَمَعَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. دَمَعٌ; (AO, S, Msb, TA; [in one copy of the S, دَمْعٌ, which is a mistake;]) or only دَمَعَت, with fet-h to the م; (AZ, Ks;) The eye shed tears. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- دَمَعَ الجُرْحُ (tropical:) The wound flowed [with blood]. (TA.) And دَمَعَتِ الشَّجَّةُ (assumed tropical:) The wound on the head flowed with blood; its blood ran. (Msb.) ― -b3- دَمَعَتِ الجَفْنَةُ (tropical:) The bowl flowed [or overflowed] with its grease, or gravy. (TA.) And دَمْعٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The flowing from the strainer of the dyer. (TA.) ― -b4- Aboo- 'Adnán says, I asked El-'Okeylee respecting this verse: “ وَالشَّمْسُ تَدْمَعُ عَيْنَاهَا وَمَنْخِرُهَا
وَهُنَّ يَخْرُجْنَ مِنْ بِيدٍ إِِلَى بِيدِ
” [app. meaning (assumed tropical:) And the sun was shedding its fierce rays and its gossamer when they were going forth from deserts to deserts]: and he said, I think [that the poet means] it was the ظَهِيرَة [or midday of summer when the heat was vehement], when what is called لُعَابُ الشَّمْسِ [and مُخَاطُ الشَّمْسِ, which latter is here the more appropriate term,] was flowing [in the air]: and El-Ghanawee says, when the beasts thirst, their eyes shed tears, and their nostrils flow. (TA.) -A2- See also 4.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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