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نَمِشَ

Root: نمش

Form: 1

Full Definition

نَمِشَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun نَمَشٌ. He, or it, was, or became, speckled with white and black: or marked with sports upon the skin differing from it in colour. See نَمَشٌ below.

def.2 نَمَشَهُ, Verbal.Noun نَمْشٌ, He variegated it; or decorated, or embellished, it: [as also نمّشهُ , but app. in an intensive sense, for its Verbal.Noun] تَنْميشٌ is syn. with تَدْبِيجٌ.
2 [And hence, app.,] He mixed, or confounded, it, e. g., good speech with bad; as also the ↓ latter of these two words.
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