رَدْمٌ

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رَدْمٌ is an Verbal.Noun and also a subst. [in the proper sense of this term]: as the latter, i. q. سَدٌّ or سُدٌّ [as meaning A thing intervening between two other things, preventing the passage from one to the other; an obstruction; a barrier; any building with which a place is obstructed]; a meaning erroneously assigned in the B to رَدَمٌ: or a thing of which one part is put upon another: a rampart, or fortified barrier: it is larger than a سدّ; and is [said to be] from ثَوْبٌ مُرَدَّمٌ meaning “ [a garment, or piece of cloth,] having patches upon patches: ” and signifies also anything having parts put, and joined or sewed, one upon another: pl. رُدُومٌ. الرَّدْمُ also signifies particularly The rampart (السُّدُّ, M, or السَّدُّ, K) that is between us [meaning the people of the territory of the Muslims] and Yájooj and Májooj [or Gog and Magog]: mentioned in the Kur xviii. 94. And What falls, [and lies in a heap, one part upon another,] of a wall in a state of demolition.

def.2 Also A sound, in a general sense: or particularly the sound [or twang] of a bow.
2 And An emission of wind from the anus, with a sound; as also رُدَامٌ : or this is a subst. from رَدَمَ said of a camel, and of an ass, meaning “ he broke wind with a sound. ”
3 And, applied to a man, One in whom is no good; and so رُدَامٌ , and مِرْدَامٌ .

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