أَدْهَمُ

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أَدْهَمُ Black; as also دُهَامٌ : the former is applied in this sense to a horse, and to a camel, &c.: or, applied to a camel, of a deep ashcolour without any tinge of white; when of a deeper hue, so as to be very black, he is termed جَوْنٌ: or, as some say, applied to a camel, like أَصْفَرُ, [in this case meaning black with some intermixture of yellow,] but less black: fem. دَهْمَآءُ; which, when applied to a sheep or goat, means of a pure or an unmixed brown colour (خَالِصَةُ الحُمْرَةِ): pl. دُهْمٌ. The Arabs say, مُلُوكُ الخَيْلِ دُهْمُهَا [The kings of horses are the black thereof]. And فَرَسٌ أَدْهَمُ بَهِيمٌ A black horse in which is no intermixture of colours. And لَا آتِيكَ مَا حَنَّتِ الدَّهْمَآءُ [I will not come to thee as long as she that is of a deep ash-colour without any tinge of white reiterates her yearning cry after her young one; meaning, ever]. And رَمَادٌ أَدْهَمُ Black ashes.
2 حَدِيقَةٌ دَهْمَآءُ and مُدْهَامَّةٌ [A walled garden] green inclining to black. Hence, , in the Kur [lv. 64], [Two gardens (جَنَّتَانِ)] of which the greenness inclines to blackness; for every green plant, when its abundance and its moisture, or irrigation, are complete, inclines to blackness: or black by reason of intense greenness arising from abundant moisture, or irrigation; and everything that is green (أَخْضَر) the Arabs term أَسْوَدُ.
3 رَبْعٌ أَدْهَمُ [A place of alighting or abode] recently occupied by the tribe; [because blackened by their fires &c.:] pl. أَرْبُعٌ دُهْمٌ. And أَثَرٌ أَدْهَمُ A new, or recent, mark, trace, or vestige: and أَغْيَرُ means one that is “old, becoming effaced:” and the former means also old, becoming effaced; as some explain it; thus having two contr. significations. And وَطْأَةٌ دَهْمَآءُ A new, or recent, footstep, or footprint: and غَبْرَآءُ means “becoming effaced:” or the former means one that is becoming effaced, because it has become obscure to him who seeks it; or an old footstep, or footprint: and حَمْرَآءُ means one that is “new, or recent.” [See also أَغْبَرُ.]
4 الدَّهْمَآءُ also signifies The cooking-pot: or the black cooking-pot: and the old cooking-pot. (K. [But it is implied in the TA that this last meaning is a mistake, occasioned by an omission; and that, instead of القِدْرُ وَالقَدِيمَةُ, (in the CK القِدْرُ القَدِيمَةُ,) we should read, القِدْرُ وَالوَطْأَةُ الدَّهْمَآءُ القَدِيمَةُ, explained above. Accord. to Golius, on the authority of a gloss in the KL, أَبُو الأَدْهَمِ signifies The great cooking-pot in which a whole sheep is cooked at once.])
5 And The twenty-ninth night of the [lunar] month: because of its blackness. And [the pl.] الدُّهْمُ Three nights of the [lunar] month [during which is the change of the moon]: because they are black.
6 See also الدُّهَيْمُ.
7 [Used as a subst.,] أَدْهَمُ signifies also A shackle or fetter, or a pair of shackles or fetters; syn. قَيْدٌ: because of the blackness thereof: accord. to AA, of wood: or a heavy shackle or fetter or a pair of shackles or fetters: syn. أَدَاهِمُ: because of the blackform of pl., which is proper to substs., because the quality of a subst. is predominant in it.
8 And [the fem.] دَهْمَآءُ signifies A multitude, or large number: and a company of men; and multitude thereof: or the generality, the common mass, or the main part [thereof]: or the commonalty, or common people. [See also دَهْمٌ.]

def.2 Also, دَهْمَآءُ, The aspect, appearance, mien, guise, or garb, of a man.

def.3 And الدَّهْمَآءُ A certain herb, or tree, green, and broad in the leaves; or a certain broad herb, having leaves and twigs, resembling the قَرْنُوَة; with which one tans.

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