ذَمَّةٌ
Root: ذم
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ذَمَّةٌ
[as a subst.]; and بِئْرٌ ذَمَّةٌ, in which the latter word is an epithet, and
ذِمَّةٌ also, with kesr, and
ذَمِيمٌ , and ذَمِيمَةٌ; A well containing little water; because discommended: and, as some say, containing much water: thus having two contr. significations: pl. ذِمَامٌ and
ذَمٌّ , [or rather the latter is a coll. gen. n., of which ذَمَّةٌ is the n. un.] A poet says, namely, Dhu-r-Rummeh, describing camels whose eyes were sunk in their sockets by reason of fatigue,
[Upon camels of Himyer that were as though their eyes were wells containing little water which the camels employed to draw it had exhausted].عَلَى حِمْيَرِيَّاتٍ كَأَنَّ عُيُونَهَا ذِمَامُ الرَّكَايَا أَنْكَزَتْهَا المَوَاتِحُ
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