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غَامِضٌ ذ [Unperceived; unapparent; hidden, or concealed. (See 1, first signification.)] ― -b2- Unapparent to the mind, not plain or perspicuous, obscure, recondite, or abstruse, speech, or language. (S, A, K.) You say also, مَعْنًى غَامِضٌ A nice, subtile, or quaint, meaning. (TA.) And مَسْأَلَةٌ غَامِضَةٌ A question in which is matter for consideration, and subtility, or nicety. (TA.) And مَسْأَلَةٌ فِيهَا غَوَامِضُ [A question in which are obscurities, abstrusities, subtilities, or niceties: the last word being pl. of ↓ غَامِضَةٌ , an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates]. (A.) ― -b3- Obscure; not well known: (A:) or not known: (Msb, K:) applied to rank or quality (حَسَب), (A, K,) or to parentage or relationship (نَسَب): (Msb:) pl. أَغْمَاضٌ, like as أَصْحَابٌ is pl. of صَاحِبٌ: or, as some say, this is pl. of ↓ غَمْضٌ . (TA.) ― -b4- Obscure, or of no reputation; low, mean, or vile; (K, TA;) applied to a man: (TA:) such is termed ↓ ذُو غَمْضٍ , (S, O, TA,) also. (TA.) [And hence, perhaps,] A man remiss in the charge, or in rushing on the enemy: (Lth, K:) pl. غَوَامِضُ [which is anomalous, like فَوَارِسُ &c.]. (Lth.) ― -b5- Low, or depressed; applied to land, (S, A, K,) and a place; (A;) [because unseen from a distance;] as also ↓ غَمْضٌ ; (S, A, K;) applied to a place: (S, A:) or this latter signifies land very low, or very much depressed, so that what is in it is not seen: (AHn:) and in like manner ↓ مَغْمَضٌ , a place more depressed (S, TA) than what is termed غَمْضٌ: (TA:) pl. of the first, غَوَامِضُ: (K:) and of ↓ the second, أَغْمَاضٌ [a pl. of pauc.] (S, K) and غُمُوضٌ: (S, A, K:) and of the third, مَغَامِضُ. (S.) ― -b6- An anklet depressed, lit. choked, (غَاصٌّ, [in the CK غاضّ,]) in the leg: (JK, A, L, K:) and, applied to an ankle-bone, concealed by the flesh: (TA:) or fat: (K:) and in this latter sense applied to a leg, or shank. (K, TA.) ― -b7- A house not upon a common thoroughfare-road or street; (Lth, A, L, K;) retired therefrom. (A, TA.) -A2- A young camel; the young one of a camel: pl. غَوَامِضُ: (TA:) which also signifies camels not accustomed to drawing water. (JK.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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