غَمْغَمَ

Root: غم

Form: R. Q. 1

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غَمْغَمَ

R. Q. 1 [Verbal.Noun غَمْغَمَةٌ, He uttered a cry, or cries, in fright; as also تَغَمْغَمَ : see غَمَغْمَةٌ below.
2 And] He raised his voice conflict with his antagonist; [as also تَغَمْغَمَ : see, again, غَمْغَمَةٌ below.]
3 And He [a man] spoke while taking a thing into his fauces, so that the hearer, or listener, did not understand what he was saying; [or spoke indistinctly; agreeably with an explanation of غَمْغَمَةٌ below; as also تَغَمْغَمَ .
4 And, said of a bow, It produced a sound; agreeably with another explanation of غَمْغَمَةٌ below.]
5 Also, said of an infant, Verbal.Noun غَمْغَمَةٌ, He wept over the breast, desiring the milk: [and the Verbal.Noun is used as a simple subst., and therefore pluralized:] IAar cites as an ex., إِذَا المُرْضِعَاتُ بَعْدَ أَوَّلِ هَجْعَةٍ سَمِعْتَ عَلَى ثُدِيِّهِنَّ [When the suckling women, after the first light sleep in the beginning of the night, are in such a condition that thou hearest cryings over their breasts]; meaning, as he says, that the milk of these women is little in quantity, so that the sucking child weeps over the breast when sucking it.

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