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دَمَّيْتُهُ

Root: دمو

Form: 2

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دَمَّيْتُهُII , Verbal.Noun تَدْمِيَةٌ, i. q. , i. e. [I made him to bleed;] I struck him, or smote him, so that blood issued from him: [and I made him bloody; for] دَمَّاهُ signifies [also] he smeared him, or defiled him, or made him to be smeared or defiled, with blood. Hence the prov., وُلْدُكِ مَنْ دَمَّى عَقَبَيْكِ, Thy son is he who made thy two heels to be smeared with blood; (TA in art. ولد;) i. e., whom thou thyself broughtest forth; he is thy son really; not he whom thou hast taken from another, and adopted.
2 دمّى المَاشِيَةَ It fattened the cattle so as to make them like what are termed دُمًى [pl. of دُمْيَةٌ].
3 دَمَّيْتُ لَهُ, Verbal.Noun as above, I made a way easy to him.
4 I made, or brought, [a thing] near to him. You say, دَمَّى لَهُ فِى كَذَا وَ كَذَا He made, or brought, near to him [some object of desire in such and such cases].
5 I appeared to him. One says, خُذْ مَا دَمَّى لَكَ Take thou what has oppeared to thee.
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