فَغْمٌ
Root: فغم
Full Definition
فَغْمٌ
What one extracts from the interstices of his teeth, of what has clung thereto. It is said in a trad., كُلُوا الوَغْمَ وَٱطْرَحُوا
الفَغْمَ [Eat ye the
وغم
and throw ye away the
فغم]; in which, accord. to IAth, by the فغم is meant what is expl. above; and by the وغم, what falls, portion after portion, of the food: but some, he adds, say that the converse is the case.
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