مَذَمَّةٌ

Root: ذم

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مَذَمَّةٌ , with fet-h only [to the ذ, A cause of blame, dispraise, discommendation, censure, or reprehension; a blamable, or discommendable, quality or action;] a thing for which one is, or is to be, blamed, dispraised, discommended, found fault with, censured, or reprehended: contr. of مَحْمَدَةٌ: [pl. مَذَامٌّ.] You say, البُخْلُ مَذَمَّةٌ, i. e. [Niggardliness is] one of the things for which one is, or is to be, blamed, &c. And إِيَّاكَ وَ المَذَامَّ [Beware thou of, or avoid thou, or remove thyself far from, causes of blame, &c.].
2 See also ذِمَّةٌ, in six places.
3 And see ذَمَامَةٌ.

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