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طُمَّةٌ ذ A company, or congregated body, of men: and the middle of them: one says, لَقِيتُهُ فى طُمَّةِ القَوْمِ [I met him, or found him, in the company of people, or in the midst of the people]. (TA.) -A2- Also Error; or deviation from the right course: and confusion, or perplexity, and inability to see the right course. (TA.) ― -b2- And Dirt, or filth; syn. قَذَرٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- And Human dung. (K.) AZ says, When thou givest good advice to a man and he refuses to do aught but follow his own opinion alone, دَعْهُ يَتَرَمَّعُ فِى طُمَّتِهِ [leave him wallowing in his dung]. (TA.) ― -b4- And A portion (K, TA) of herbage, mostly (TA) of what is dry, or dried up. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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