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صُلْحٌ دُمَاجٌ صلح دماج (S, A, K) and ↓ دِمَاجٌ (A, K) (tropical:) A peace, or reconciliation, that is secret, or concealed: (K, TA:) or as though secret, or concealed; from مُدَامَجَةٌ [inf. n. of 3]: (S:) or firmly established: (A, K:) or complete, and firmly established: (Az, S:) or that is not made with any malicious intention. (AA.) And أَمْرٌ دُمَاجٌ (assumed tropical:) A right, or just, affair or case. (TA.) The saying of a poet, cited by IAar, “ يُحَاوِلْنَ صَرْمًا أَوْ دُمَاجًا عَلَى الخَنَى
” [which may app. be correctly rendered Do they (referring to women) seek to affect a severing of the tie of union, or a confirming thereof notwithstanding the calamities of fortune?] is explained as meaning, they make a show of union outwardly sound but inwardly unsound; from أَدْمَجَ الحَبْلَ signifying “he twisted firmly the rope.” (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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