مَرْهَمٌ
Root: رهم
Full Definition
مَرْهَمٌ
[A place upon which has fallen rain such as is termed
رِهْمَةٌ: pl. مَرَاهِمُ: see an ex. in what follows.
2 Also] A certain application for wounds; a soft plaster or dressing, the softest of medicaments, [i. e. an unguent, or the like,] with which a wound is plastered, dressed, overspread, or anointed: [pl. as above:] it is an arabicized word [from the Pers. مَرْهَمْ]: or derived from الرِّهْمَةُ, [as some say,] because of its softness. You say, مَرَاهِمُ الغَوَادِى مَرَاهِمُ البَوَادِى [The places watered by the drizzling and lasting rains of the early morning-clouds are the soft plasters, or unguents, of the deserts].
2 Also] A certain application for wounds; a soft plaster or dressing, the softest of medicaments, [i. e. an unguent, or the like,] with which a wound is plastered, dressed, overspread, or anointed: [pl. as above:] it is an arabicized word [from the Pers. مَرْهَمْ]: or derived from الرِّهْمَةُ, [as some say,] because of its softness. You say, مَرَاهِمُ الغَوَادِى مَرَاهِمُ البَوَادِى [The places watered by the drizzling and lasting rains of the early morning-clouds are the soft plasters, or unguents, of the deserts].
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