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أَضْجَمُ ذ Having the quality termed ضَجَمٌ, expl. above: (K:) [or, particularly,] having the nose inclining towards one side of the face: (S:) [fem. ضَجْمَآءُ: and pl. ضُجْمٌ.] And [hence] قَلِيبٌ أَضْجَمُ (assumed tropical:) A well having a crookedness in the wall that surrounds its interior: or that is not dug in a straight, or an even, direction: pl. قُلُبٌ ضُجْمٌ. (TA.) El-'Ajjáj has applied the phrase قُلُبٌ ضُجْمٌ to (tropical:) Wide wounds; as likened to the wells thus termed. (TA.) ― -b2- And [the pl.] ضُجْمٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) Men who eat much. (IAar, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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