دَمَعَتِ

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دَمَعَتِ , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun دَمْعٌ and دَمَعَانٌ and دُمُوعٌ; and دَمِعَت, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun دَمَعٌ; (AO, S, Msb, TA; [in one copy of the S, دَمْعٌ, which is a mistake;]) or only دَمَعَت, with fet-h to the م; The eye shed tears.
2 دَمَعَ الجُرْحُ The wound flowed [with blood]. And دَمَعَتِ الشَّجَّةُ The wound on the head flowed with blood; its blood ran.
3 دَمَعَتِ الجَفْنَةُ The bowl flowed [or overflowed] with its grease, or gravy. And دَمْعٌ also signifies The flowing from the strainer of the dyer.
4 Aboo- 'Adnán says, I asked El-'Okeylee respecting this verse: وَالشَّمْسُ تَدْمَعُ عَيْنَاهَا وَمَنْخِرُهَا وَهُنَّ يَخْرُجْنَ مِنْ بِيدٍ إِلَى بِيدِ [app. meaning And the sun was shedding its fierce rays and its gossamer when they were going forth from deserts to deserts]: and he said, I think [that the poet means] it was the ظَهِيرَة [or midday of summer when the heat was vehement], when what is called لُعَابُ الشَّمْسِ [and مُخَاطُ الشَّمْسِ, which latter is here the more appropriate term,] was flowing [in the air]: and El-Ghanawee says, when the beasts thirst, their eyes shed tears, and their nostrils flow.

def.2 See also 4.

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