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دنس

1 دَنِسَ دنس , aor. دَنَسَ , inf. n. دَنَسٌ (S, A, K) and دَنَاسَةٌ, (K,) It (a garment, S, A, K) was, or became, dirty, filthy, foul, sullied, defiled, or polluted; (S, M, A, K;) as also ↓ تدنّس : (S, M, A:) and in like manner (tropical:) said of a man's honour, (K, TA,) and (tropical:) of his disposition. (TA.) 2 دنّسهُ دنس دنسه دنسة , (S, M, A, K,) inf. n. تَدْنِيسٌ, (S, K,) He, or it, made it (namely a garment, S, A, K) dirty, filthy, or foul; sullied, defiled, or polluted, it. (S, M, A, K.) And in like manner, دنّس عِرْضَهُ (tropical:) [He sullied his honour;] he did to him that which disgraced him. (A, K.) And دنّسهُ سُوْءُ خُلُقِهِ (tropical:) [The evilness of his disposition sullied his honour]. (A, TA.) 5 تَدَنَّسَ see 1. دَنَسٌ دنس Dirt; filth; soil, or pollution: (S, M, A, K:) pl. أَدْنَاسٌ. (M.) [Hence,] هُوَ يَتَصَوَّنُ مِنَ الأَدْنَاسُ (tropical:) [He preserves his honour from pollutions], and ↓ مِنَ المَدَانِسِ (tropical:) [from causes of pollution, مَدَانِسُ being pl. of ↓ مَدْنَسَةٌ , a noun of the same kind as مَبْخَلَةٌ and مَجْبَنَةٌ]. (A, TA.) دَنِسٌ دنس Dirty, filthy, foul, sullied, defiled, or polluted: (M, K:) [pl. أَدْنَاسٌ, agreeably with analogy, and دُنَسَآءُ, contr. to analogy; but the latter is perhaps post-classical.] You say, قَوْمٌ أَدْنَاسٌ and ↓ مَدَانِيسٌ [A people dirty, filthy, &c.; both in a proper and in a tropical sense]. (K.) And هُوَ دَنِسُ المُرُوْءَةِ and الثِّيَابِ and الجَيْبِ and الأَرْدَانِ (tropical:) [He is foul in character, conduct, or the like]. (A.) مَدْنَسَةٌ مدنسه مدنسة ; and its pl. مَدَانِسُ: see دَنَسٌ. مَدَانِيسٌ مدانيس : see دَنِسٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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