دِيمَةٌ
Root: دوم
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دِيمَةٌ
A lasting, or continuous, and still rain: (As, M, and TA voce ضَرْبٌ, q. v.:) or rain in which is neither thunder nor lightning; the least of which is the third of a day or the third of a night; and the most thereof, of any period: (AZ, S in art. ديم:) or rain that continues some days: or rain that continues long and is still, without thunder and lightning: or rain that continues five days, or six, or seven, or a day and a night, (T in art. ديم, M, K,) or more; or the least whereof is a third of a day or of a night; and the most thereof, of any period: pl. دِيَمٌ, the و being changed [into ى] in the pl. because it is changed in the sing., and دُيُومٌ, and [coll. gen. n.]
دِيْمٌ [See also مُدَامٌ.]
2 Hence other things are thus termed by way of comparison. It is said in a trad. of 'Áïsheh, كَانَ عَمَلُهُ دِيمَةً
2 Hence other things are thus termed by way of comparison. It is said in a trad. of 'Áïsheh, كَانَ عَمَلُهُ دِيمَةً
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