دَيْلَمٌ
Root: دلم
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دَيْلَمٌ
The blacks, or negroes. (T, TA. [But الدَّيْلَمُ is more commonly known as the name of a certain people to be mentioned in what follows.])
2 The Abyssinian, i. e. black, ant: or, as some say, a place where ants and ticks collect, at the places where the camels stand when they come to drink at the watering-troughs, and where they lie down at the watering-places: [or] ants [themselves]; and ticks; both said by Z to be so called because they are enemies to the camels [from a signification of the same word to be mentioned below]: or numerous ants.
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5 Camels [collectively].
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7 [Hence, perhaps,] دَيْلَمٌ also signifies
def.2 Also The male of the دُرَّاج [i. e. attagen, francolin, heath-cock, or rail].
2 And A species of [the bird called] the قَطَا: or the male thereof [like دَلْهَمٌ].
def.3 Also The tree called سَلَام, which grows in the mountains.
2 The Abyssinian, i. e. black, ant: or, as some say, a place where ants and ticks collect, at the places where the camels stand when they come to drink at the watering-troughs, and where they lie down at the watering-places: [or] ants [themselves]; and ticks; both said by Z to be so called because they are enemies to the camels [from a signification of the same word to be mentioned below]: or numerous ants.
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5 Camels [collectively].
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7 [Hence, perhaps,] دَيْلَمٌ also signifies
def.2 Also The male of the دُرَّاج [i. e. attagen, francolin, heath-cock, or rail].
2 And A species of [the bird called] the قَطَا: or the male thereof [like دَلْهَمٌ].
def.3 Also The tree called سَلَام, which grows in the mountains.
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