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ذَمِيمٌ

Root: ذم

Full Definition

ذَمِيمٌ Blamed, dispraised, discommended, found fault with, censured, or reprehended; i. q. مَذْمُومٌ ; as also ذِمٌّ and ذَمٌّ , which last is an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet, and, like [its contr.] حَمْدٌ, is applied to a man and to a place of alighting or sojourning or abiding. [See مُذِمٌّ]
2 See also ذَمَّةٌ.
3 Also, applied to water, Disliked, or disapproved.

def.2 [As a subst.,] Urine and mucus, so in the copies of the K, but correctly, mucus, and urine that flows from the penis of the goat: or a fluid that flows from the nose.
2 And in like manner, Milk [that flows] from the teats of sheep or goats; or, as in some copies of the S, form the teats of the she-camel; or from the teats of the sheep or goat: or milk that becomes sprinkled upon the udders: or milk that flows upon the thighs and udders of camels and sheep or goats.
3 Also Dew, absolutely; accord. to IDrd: or dew that falls in the night upon the trees, and upon which dust lights, so that it becomes like bits of clay or mud.
4 And A thing [meaning the sebaceous matter] that comes forth from the pores of the soft part of the nose, like the eggs of ants: or pimples, or small pustules, (بَثْرٌ, T, K,) or a thing resembling بَثْر, black, or red, like the eggs of ants, coming forth upon the nose, or arising upon the faces and the noses, from heat or from the scab: or the dirty matter that comes forth upon the nose: n. un. with ة.
5 And Whiteness upon the nose of a kid.
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