دَائِمٌ
Root: دوم
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دَائِمٌ
[Continuing, lasting, enduring, or remaining: being extended or prolonged: ] continuing, lasting, enduring, or remaining, long: [and continuing, lasting, or existing, incessantly, always, endlessly, or for ever; permanent, perpetual, or everlasting: ] and
دَوْمٌ signifies the same as دَائِمٌ, applied to shade; being an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet: and
دَيُّومٌ , also, [of the measure فَيْعُولٌ, originally دَيْوُوِمٌ,] like قَيُّومٌ, signifies the same as دائمٌ [app. in the last of the senses explained above; being of a form proper to intensive epithets]: Lakeet Ibn-Zurárah says,
2 [Hence,] دَاوِمَةٌ
[Different, or widely different, are this and embracing and sleeping and the cool drinkingplace and the continual shade]. And the Jews are related, in a trad. of 'Áïsheh, to have said [to the Muslims], عَلَيْكُمْ السَّامُ , meaning المَوْتُ الدَّائِمُ, [i. e. May everlasting death come upon you; saying السَّامُ in the place of السَّلَامُ, and] suppressing the ى [or rather the hemzeh] because of [their desire to assimilate الدائمشَتَّانَ هٰذَا وَالعِنَاقُ وَالنَّوْمٌ وَالمَشْرَبُ البَارِدُ وَالظِّلُّ الدَّوْمْ
2 [Hence,] دَاوِمَةٌ
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