ظِمَخٌ
Root: ظمخ
Full Definition
ظِمَخٌ
, or ظِمْخٌ, A tree having the form of the
دُلْب [or plane-tree], from which is cut the wood of the beaters and washers and whiteners of clothes, which is buried, [and is used for tanning,] and which is also called
عِرْنٌ, n. un. عِرْنَةٌ, and the spathe, or spadix, (طَلْع,) whereof is called
سَفْعٌ: and in the dial. of Teiyi, the fig-tree; n. un. with ة: or the sing. is ظِمْخَةٌ, and the pl. is ظِمَخٌ, sometimes contracted into ظِمْخٌ: and some say that it is the tree called
سُمَّاق: (TA, and so in one of my copies of the S, in which it is written ظِمَخ:) it is also called ظنخ and زمخ and طمخ.
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