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زَحْمٌ ذ [originally an inf. n.,] i. q. قَوْمٌ مُزْدَحِمُونَ [A party, or company of men, straitening one another by pressure; pushing, pressing, crowding, or thronging, one another; i. e. a press, crowd, or throng]. (K, * TA.) A poet says, “ ↓ جَآءَ بِزَحْمٍ مَعَ زَحْمٍ فَا@زْدَحَمْ
المَوْجِ إِِذَا المَوْجُ ا@لْتَطَمْ ↓ تَزَاحُمَ
” [He brought a crowd with a crowd, and they pressed, one against another, like the dashing together of the waves when the waves beat one another]: he uses [here] an inf. n. not conformable to the verb. (ISd, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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