ذمم

ذَمَّ

To blame, censure, dispraise, or find fault with; also to satirize, especially in verse, or to suffer loss or diminution in reputation.

The core Form I verbal use; the satirical and reputational uses are associated extensions of blame.

• Lane · entry 21685

ذَمَّ

Of a place: to become barren or affected by drought, with its produce becoming scanty.

A specialized, figurative use applied to land or its pasture.

• Lane · entry 21685

ذَمَّ

Of the nose: to flow with mucus or other nasal discharge.

A bodily use distinct from the blame verb.

• Lane · entry 21685

يُذَامُّ

To pass one’s life contending with or resigned to scantiness.

A Form III expression describing endurance of a meagre condition.

• Lane · entry 21687

أَذَمَّ

To do or say something for which one deserves blame or censure.

Form IV intransitive use; it may be construed with a person or people affected by the blame.

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أَذَمَّ

Of a riding camel or other mount: to become jaded, cease progressing, and lag behind the traveling company.

A figurative or specialized Form IV use associated with failure to keep pace.

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أَذَمَّ

To find a person, place, or thing blameworthy, faulty, or discommendable.

A transitive Form IV use meaning to judge or discover something to be blameworthy.

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أَذَمَّ

To hold someone in low or mean estimation or contempt, or to leave someone blamed among the people.

The contempt sense occurs with بِهِ or بِهِمْ in the cited constructions.

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أَذَمَّ

To grant protection, refuge, or security; to obtain a promise or covenant of safety for someone.

The Form IV protective use includes securing another’s protection or taking responsibility for that security.

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تَذَمَّمَ

To shun or avoid blame; to refrain from something out of disdain, shame, or fear of censure.

It can also mean being regardful of what deserves reverence, respect, honour, or defence in a companion or neighbour.

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تَذَامَّ

To blame, censure, or find fault with one another.

Reciprocal Form VI use.

• Lane · entry 21690

اِسْتَذَمَّ

To require or invite blame, or to be blamed or dispraised.

Form X use expressing seeking or undergoing the state of blame.

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اِسْتَذَمَّ بِذِمَامِهِ

To beg or implore someone’s protection.

Reported as a post-classical expression and possibly an older Classical phrase; the attribution is therefore qualified.

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ذَمْذَمَ

To make a gift small, scanty, or insufficient.

A reduplicated or special-form usage.

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ذَمٌّ

Blame, dispraise, or censure; in the plural, vices, faults, or defects.

Nominal and plural uses corresponding to the core blame branch.

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ذِمٌّ

Excessively lean or emaciated; perishing or like one who is perishing.

A specialized adjectival or substantival use.

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ذَمَّةٌ

A well containing little water; according to another reported usage, a well containing much water.

The two opposed descriptions are explicitly reported as variant meanings. This vowel pattern is distinct from ذِمَّةٌ, the covenant noun.

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ذِمَّةٌ

A binding right or due, responsibility, surety, or obligation for fulfilling an undertaking, repaying what is owed, or safeguarding a person or thing.

Classical constructions extend the covenant sense to the moral or legal seat of obligation and to a due owed to another person.

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أَهْلُ الذِّمَّةِ

People placed under a covenant of protection, especially protected non-Muslim subjects who pay the jizyah.

A conventional expression formed from ذِمَّةٌ; the protected status includes security for life and property.

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ذِمَّةٌ

A repast or banquet to which guests are invited, whether simply for food or for a wedding.

A distinct nominal usage.

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ذَمِيمٌ

Blamed, dispraised, or disapproved; discommendable when applied to a person, a place of sojourning, or water.

This adjectival synonym is kept distinct from the Quranic passive participle مَذْمُومٌ.

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ذَمِيمٌ

Mucus or another fluid discharge, including fluid issuing from the nose or from the penis of a male goat.

A substantivized bodily-fluid use.

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ذَمِيمٌ

Milk that flows from the teats or becomes spread upon the udders and thighs of livestock.

A specialized use for flowing milk, especially from sheep, goats, or camels.

• Lane · entry 21698

ذَمِيمٌ

Dew, especially dew falling at night on trees and becoming dust-covered like small pieces of clay or mud.

A substantival natural-material use.

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ذَمِيمٌ

Sebaceous matter, pimples, small pustules, or dirty matter appearing on the nose or face.

The source associates these formations with heat or scab; the meaning is distinct from ordinary nasal mucus.

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ذَمِيمٌ

Whiteness appearing on the nose of a kid.

A specialized descriptive use for an animal’s marking.

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ذَمَامَةٌ

Shame, disgrace, or fear of blame arising from neglecting an inviolable right, duty, or obligation.

A feeling or consequence connected with failure to honour what is due to another.

• Lane · entry 21699

ذُمَامَةٌ

A remainder, remnant, remaining portion, or relic.

A distinct vowel pattern and lexical branch.

• Lane · entry 21700

ذَمِيمَةٌ

A crippling or chronic disease, or an infirmity that prevents a person from going forth.

A substantival designation of disabling infirmity.

• Lane · entry 21702

ذَمَّاءُ

The last remains of something poured or discharged at once.

A specialized expression for residual liquid or material.

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ذَمَّامٌ

One who blames, dispraises, or censures much or often.

An intensive personal noun.

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ذَامٌّ

A vice, fault, defect, or similar imperfection.

The source also records a variant without gemination, belonging to another related lexical form.

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أَذَمُّ

A fatigued horse that has stopped and stands still.

A specialized adjectival animal description.

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مُذِّمٌّ

A thing that is blamed or has been made faulty, defective, or vitiated.

The form may describe either exposure to blame or the causing of a defect.

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مُذِّمٌّ

A man in whom there is no motion.

A specialized description of inertness or immobility.

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مَذَمَّةٌ

A cause of blame or censure, or a blameworthy quality or action.

The noun may designate either the quality itself or the act for which one is blamed.

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مُذَمَّمٌ

A man who is blamed, censured, or dispraised much.

An intensive passive description of a person frequently subjected to blame.

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مُذَمَّمٌ

A place held in reverence, respect, or honour.

A distinct specialized use applied to a place rather than a person.

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