Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

رِمَّةٌ

Root: رم

Full Definition

رِمَّةٌ Old and decayed bones: or the old and decayed, of bones: pl. رِمَمٌ and رِمَامٌ. The performance of the act termed الاِسْتِنْجَآء therewith is forbidden. [See also رَمِيمٌ.]
2 [And A bone in which is marrow. ]
3 See also رُمَّةٌ, first sentence.

def.2 Also A two-winged ant: so accord. to Aboo-Hátim; but disallowed by ElBekree.
2 And The أَرَضَة [or woodfretter], in some one or more of the dialects.


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