ثَغَامٌ

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ثَغَامٌ A kind of plant, generally found in the mountains, having a green stem, which becomes white when it dries, and to which hoariness is likened; it has a thick [head, or blossom, such as is called] سَنَمَة, and [it is said that [it does not grow save upon a black mountain-top, and is found in Nejd and Tihámeh: A 'Obeyd says that it is a kind of plant, IF, that it is a tree, with a white blossom and fruit, to which hoariness is likened: it is called in Persian درمنه; (K; [written in different copies of that work دِرَمْنَه and دَرَّمْنَه and دَرَمْنَه; the last of which is said in the TA to be the right reading; a word said to mean wormwood, and hyssop; or, accord. to Meninski, as mentioned by Freytag, zedoary; but this last is called in Persian زُرُنْبَا, with which word درمنه may have been confounded;]) or درمنه اسبيد, or دَرْمَنَه إِسْپِيد, in which [SM thinks] the former word is a contraction of دَرْمِيَانَه; the two together meaning “ in the middle white: ” the n. un. is with ة: and is a quasi-pl. n.; as though the اء were a substitute for the ة of أَثْغِمَةٌ.

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