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طَغَامٌ

Root: طغم

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طَغَامٌ Low, ignoble, mean, or sordid, and weak, persons, such as serve for the food of their bellies; or stupid, weak in intellect, low, ignoble, mean, or sordid: and applied to a single person as well as to a pl. number.
2 And The inferior, or meaner, sorts of birds, [contr. of عِتَاقُ الطَّيْرِ,] and some add, and of beasts, or birds, of prey: n. un. with ة; applied to the male and the female. It has no verb; and its derivation is not known.
3 يَا طَغَامَ الأَحْلَامِ, said by 'Alee to the people of El-'Irák, is a phrase of the same class as إِشْفَى المِرْفَقِ, [i. e. an instance of a subst. used as an epithet,] as though he said يَا ضِعَافَ الأَحْلَامِ [O ye weak in respect of the qualities of forbearance].
4 طَغَامُ الكَلَامِ means Low, or vile, speech: one says, كَلَامُ الطَّغَامِ طَغَامُ الكَلَامِ [The speech of the low, ignoble, &c., is low, or vile, speech].
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