Quranic root
دمو
d · m · w
The supplied lexical evidence is centered on blood and the state of blood issuing, with extensions to making bloody, blood-red coloration, and figurative or conventional uses.
The family develops from the concrete noun “blood” and the verb “to bleed” to causative, adjectival, color, and specialized applications. Some peripheral Form X usages are explicitly reported as transpositions.
- Lane · entry 1328
- Lane · entry 1324
- Lane · entry 1325
- Lane · entry 1327
- Lane · entry 1342
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
دَم
dam
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 10 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Blood; the bodily fluid.
Occurs in singular and irregular plural forms, including possessive and definite constructions. Quranic contexts include human or animal blood, blood mentioned in dietary prohibitions, and blood associated with sacrificial animals.
- Lane · entry 1328
Selected Quran examples
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:30ٱلدِّمَآءَ[the] blood[s]
- 2:84دِمَآءَكُمْyour blood
- 2:173وَٱلدَّمَand [the] blood
- 5:3وَٱلدَّمُand the blood
- 6:145دَمًۭاblood
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 24 Classical meanings
دَمِيَ
To bleed; to have blood issue from it; to become bloody or smeared with blood.
An intransitive verb describing the issuing of blood or the resulting bloody state.
- Lane · entry 1324
دَمَّى
To make someone bleed, causing blood to issue by striking or smiting.
Causative Form II usage.
- Lane · entry 1325
دَمَّى
To make bloody; to smear or defile with blood.
Causative Form II usage, including causing a person or thing to be smeared or defiled with blood.
- Lane · entry 1325
دَمَّى
Of pasture or herbage, to fatten cattle until they resemble dolls or images.
A marked figurative or transferred usage.
- Lane · entry 1325
دَمَّى
To make a way easy; to bring a desired object near.
Figurative constructions involving facilitation or bringing something within reach.
- Lane · entry 1325
دَمَّى
To appear or become apparent to someone.
Used in the construction خُذْ مَا دَمَّى لَكَ, “take what has appeared to you.”
- Lane · entry 1325
اِسْتَدْمَى
To stoop with blood dropping from the head or nose.
The related active participle describes one in this condition. The usage is reported alongside a transposed form.
- Lane · entry 1327
- Lane · entry 1343
اِسْتَدْمَى
To deal gently with a debtor while seeking repayment.
A figurative usage reported as formed by transposition from اِسْتَدَامَ.
- Lane · entry 1327
- Lane · entry 1343
اِسْتَدْمَى
To watch for, wait for, or seek someone’s affection.
A figurative usage reported as formed by transposition from اِسْتَدَامَ.
- Lane · entry 1327
دَمُ الأَخَوَيْنِ
Dragon’s blood: a red, resinous, inspissated juice, also called the blood of the gazelle.
A specialized plant-resin term.
- Lane · entry 1328
دَمُ الغِزْلَانِ
A particular herb or leguminous plant with a beautiful blossom.
A plant name.
- Lane · entry 1328
بَنَاتُ دَمٍ
A particular red plant.
A plant name.
- Lane · entry 1328
الدَّمُ
The cat.
A specialized animal name recorded in the lexicon.
- Lane · entry 1328
دَمٍ
Bleeding; having blood issue from it; bloody or smeared with blood.
An adjectival use, distinct from the noun دَم meaning “blood.”
- Lane · entry 1331
دُمْيَةٌ
An image or effigy, especially one of ivory, marble, or another decorated material; an idol. Figuratively, a beautiful woman or anything beautiful in respect of whiteness.
The term can denote an image in general and, by metonymy, a beautiful person or object. In the oath لَا وَالدُّمَى, it is interpreted either as “by the idols” or as referring to blood sacrificed on worship stones.
- Lane · entry 1332
دُمًى
Garments bearing pictures or effigies.
A plural usage of دُمْيَةٌ.
- Lane · entry 1332
دَمْيَآءُ
Good fortune, prosperity, or good luck.
A specialized lexical item with variant spelling reported in the source tradition.
- Lane · entry 1334
دَمِيٌّ
Pertaining or relating to blood.
A relational adjective formed from دَم.
- Lane · entry 1335
الدَّمَوِيَّةُ
Hectic fever.
A dialectal Egyptian medical term.
- Lane · entry 1338
دَامِي الشَّفَةِ
Poor or destitute, literally “having a bleeding lip.”
A figurative expression applied to a person.
- Lane · entry 1339
شَجَرَةٌ دَامِيَةٌ
A beautiful tree.
A marked figurative usage.
- Lane · entry 1339
دَامِيَةٌ
A head wound that bleeds but has not yet begun to flow freely with blood.
A technical description of a wound; one that flows with blood is distinguished by another term.
- Lane · entry 1340
مُدَمًّى
Blood-red, dark red, or intensely red; of a horse, intensely sorrel or red like blood.
Applied to garments, colors, horses, and similar objects; the color may include a blackish cast.
- Lane · entry 1342
سَهْمٌ مُدَمًّى
An arrow marked or stained with blood.
A conventional expression with several traditional explanations, all involving an arrow associated with blood or having been shot in combat.
- Lane · entry 1342
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
No matched Maqayis or Mufradat evidence was supplied; the root orientation is therefore a synthesis of the directly supplied Lane lexical material rather than a separately attested root principle.
Several peripheral entries are marked figurative, dialectal, or transposed in the lexical evidence and are retained as broader Classical Arabic meanings rather than Quranic senses.