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مَرْثُومٌ

Root: رثم

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مَرْثُومٌ and رَثِيمٌ A nose, or mouth, broken, and smeared with blood: or broken so as to be made to bleed: or broken so that the blood drops from it: and anything smeared with blood, or broken.
2 And the former, as being likened to a nose in the state above described, A woman's nose smeared with perfume.
3 Also A camel's foot wounded by stones, so that it bleeds; like مَلْثُومٌ; and in like manner رَثِيمٌ applied to a مَنْسِم [see 1, third sentence]: or, accord. to Ibn-Hishám El-Lakhmee, أَخْفَافٌ مَرْثُومَةٌ signifies camels' feet upon which the stones have had an effect, or made marks.
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