Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

دَوْمَةٌ

Root: دوم

Full Definition

دَوْمَةٌ n. un. of دَوْمٌ. [Also, app., as in the present day, and as appears from what follows, A single fruit of the tree called دَوْم.]
2 And A testicle; as being likened to the fruit of the دَوْم.
3 [Golius also explains it, as on the authority of the K, as meaning “ Ebriosa mulier; ” and Freytag, as meaning “ mulier vinum vendens: ” both are wrong: it is mentioned in the K as the name of a woman who sold wine.]


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