دَمَانٌ
Root: دمن
Full Definition
2 And Ashes.
def.2 Also, or دُمَانٌ , with damm, like other words significant of diseases and the like, as in the “ Ghareeb ” of El-Khattábee, or, accord. to the “ Towsheeh, ” both of these, and , and دَمْنٌ , and أَدَمَانٌ , Rottenness and blackness of a palm-tree: or the state of a palm-tree إِذَا أَنْسَغَتْ, as As says, (T, S, [and the like is said in the M, أَنْ تُنْسِغَ النَّخْلَةُ,]) but Sh says, correctly, إِذَا ٱنْشَقَّتْ [when it splits], in consequence of rottenness and blackness: or, accord. to IAth, corruptness and rottenness of fruits (الثمر [perhaps a mistranscription for التَّمْر i. e. dates]) before their coming to maturity; as also دَمَالٌ: or دَمَانٌ and دَمَالٌ both signify an unsoundness, or infection, in the spadix of the palm-tree, (Mgh and TA in art. دمل,) so that it becomes black, before it attains to maturity, or before it is fecundated.
def.3 Also دَمَانٌ, or in this sense it is correctly دَمَّانٌ , One who manures land with [the dung called] سِرْقِين.
def.4 [Golius adds the signification of “ Tormentum, supplicium, ” as from the KL, in my copy of which the only explanation given is عفونتى كه به درخت خرما رسد “ a rottenness that infects a palm-tree: ” he seems to have found in his copy of that work عقوبتى, either alone, or followed by some words imperfectly written.]
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