دوم

دَامَ

To persist in or adhere continually to an affair.

Used with عَلَى or عَلَيْهِ for continued adherence to a matter.

• Lane · entry 1649

دَامَ

To become still or motionless.

Applied especially to water left in a pool, to the sea, or to the boiling of a cooking-pot.

• Lane · entry 1649

دَامَ

To become tired or fatigued.

A derived, figurative use associated with stopping to rest.

• Lane · entry 1649

دَامَ

To go round, revolve, or circle.

A figurative use applied to circling movement, including a bird circling around water.

• Lane · entry 1649

دَامَتِ الدَّلْوُ

For a bucket to become full.

The expression is explained with reference to the water becoming settled in the bucket.

• Lane · entry 1649

دَوَّمَ

For the sky to rain continuously or consecutively.

Used of sustained rainfall; the attested expression is دَوَّمَتِ السَّمَاءُ.

• Lane · entry 1649
• Lane · entry 1650

دَوَّمَ

To go far or continue one’s course.

Attested of dogs or horses in pursuit or running; some authorities explain the cited poetic usage differently.

• Lane · entry 1650

دَوَّمَ

To circle or hover in the air.

Used especially of a bird circling or rising high in the sky, sometimes appearing nearly stationary.

• Lane · entry 1650
• Lane · entry 1679

دَوَّامَةٌ

A spinning top or other round object made to revolve by a string.

The noun is associated with the act of making the object revolve so rapidly that it appears still.

• Lane · entry 1650
• Lane · entry 1667

دَوَّمَتِ الشَّمْسُ

For the sun to circle in the sky and appear stationary.

Used of the sun’s apparent suspension in the middle or central region of the sky.

• Lane · entry 1650

دَوَّمَتْ عَيْنُهُ

For the eye or pupil to roll.

Describes the black of the eye revolving as though in a spindle’s whirl.

• Lane · entry 1650

دَوَّمَتْهُ الخَمْرُ

For wine to intoxicate someone so that he turns about.

A figurative causative use describing disordered or revolving movement under intoxication.

• Lane · entry 1650

دَوَّمُوا العَمَائِمَ

To wind turbans around the head.

The expression describes repeated circular winding.

• Lane · entry 1650

دَوَّمَ المَرَقَةَ

To put enough grease into broth for it to swim or circulate on the surface.

A figurative use based on the grease’s circular movement on the broth.

• Lane · entry 1650
• Lane · entry 1668

دَوَّمَ

To roll or mumble the tongue, or to make a sound roll or rumble.

Applied to rolling the tongue in the mouth and, by extension, to a camel’s rolling or rumbling bray.

• Lane · entry 1650

دَوَّمَ

To moisten.

Attested especially of moistening saliva; this is a reported Classical usage distinct from the sense of preserving or keeping something.

• Lane · entry 1650

دَوَّمَ الزَّعْفَرَانَ

To mix, steep, or dissolve saffron in water while stirring it.

The construction describes circular stirring during moistening or dissolution.

• Lane · entry 1650

دَوَّمَ القِدْرَ

To still or allay the boiling of a cooking-pot.

This may be done by sprinkling cold water on the contents or otherwise cooling them.

• Lane · entry 1650

دَاوَمَ

To persistently adhere to or continue an affair.

Used with عَلَى or with the affair as object for sustained engagement.

• Lane · entry 1651

أَدَامَ

To make something continue, last, endure, or remain; to maintain it continually.

A transitive Form IV use corresponding to the intransitive duration sense.

• Lane · entry 1652

أَدَامَ الدَّلْوَ

To fill a bucket.

A specialized transitive use associated with settled water in the bucket.

• Lane · entry 1652

إِدَامَةُ السَّهْمِ

To test or produce the sonorous quality of an arrow by turning or tapping it on the thumb.

A technical expression concerning the sound of an arrow.

• Lane · entry 1652

اِسْتَدَامَ

To await, expect, look for, or watch for something.

Used transitively with an object; without an expressed object it may mean to pause or wait in expectation.

• Lane · entry 1655

اِسْتَدَامَ

To act with moderation, gentleness, deliberation, or leisure; to seek or ask for continuance.

Used of handling an affair deliberately or of requesting that a favor, condition, or state be prolonged.

• Lane · entry 1655

اِسْتَدَامَ

To stoop the head with blood dropping from it.

A rare usage explained as formed by transposition from اِسْتَدْمَى.

• Lane · entry 1655

دَوْمٌ

Continuous or repeatedly falling rain.

Used in the expression مَا زَالَتِ السَّمَاءُ دَوْمًا دَوْمًا for sustained rain of the type called دِيمَة.

• Lane · entry 1657

دَوْمٌ

The doum palm or a large tree bearing fan-shaped leaves and clusters like those of the date-palm.

The term is also extended by some speakers to certain lote trees or large trees generally.

• Lane · entry 1657

دَوْمَةٌ

A single fruit of the doum palm, and by extension the corresponding unit noun for the tree.

The noun is the singular unit form associated with دَوْمٌ.

• Lane · entry 1660

دَوْمَةٌ

A testicle.

A figurative anatomical use based on comparison with the doum fruit.

• Lane · entry 1660

دِيمَةٌ

A lasting, continuous, generally still rain.

Classically described as rain continuing for a substantial period, often without thunder or lightning; reported minimum and maximum durations vary among authorities.

• Lane · entry 1661

دِيمَةٌ

Steady, continuous, and moderate activity or recurrence by comparison with lasting rain.

Used figuratively for uninterrupted but not excessive work, and for trials or events arriving continuously.

• Lane · entry 1661

دَامَاءُ

The sea or a great river.

The term is explained as referring to water that continues and does not run out.

• Lane · entry 1662

دُوَامٌ

Vertigo or giddiness of the head.

Used in expressions meaning that vertigo attacked or affected someone.

• Lane · entry 1665

دُوَّامَةٌ

A spinning top or a whirlpool.

Applied to the toy that spins on the ground and to the sea’s central whirl where waves circle.

• Lane · entry 1667

دَائِمٌ

Still or motionless.

Used especially of water; this is a Classical sense distinct from the Quranic adjective meaning enduring or constant.

• Lane · entry 1668

دَائِمٌ

Going round, revolving, or circling.

A reported use applied to something in motion, alongside the contrary use for something still.

• Lane · entry 1668

أَدْوَمُ

More or most continuous, lasting, or enduring.

A comparative or superlative adjective derived from the duration sense.

• Lane · entry 1671

مُدَامٌ

Continuous or lasting rain.

A nominal designation for rain that continues.

• Lane · entry 1672

مُدَامٌ

Wine.

The term is explained by the wine’s being kept until settled after fermentation, its abundance, age, or the prolonged drinking of it.

• Lane · entry 1672

مِدْوَمٌ

A stick or other implement used to still the boiling of a cooking-pot.

A tool noun derived from the act of calming the pot’s boiling.

• Lane · entry 1674

مَدِيمَةٌ

Land upon which continuous or soaking rains have fallen.

Used of ground affected by rains of the type called دِيَم.

• Lane · entry 1675

مُدِيمٌ

Having blood continually flowing from the nose, or suffering a continual nosebleed.

The sources also give the broader gloss “bleeding from the nose.”

• Lane · entry 1676

مُتَدَوِّمَاتٌ

Waiting or watching; also, of birds, circling over something.

The participle is used of birds circling overhead and, in another interpretation, of waiting or keeping watch.

• Lane · entry 1679

مُسْتَدِيمٌ

Exceeding the usual bounds in an affair; striving or taking extraordinary pains in it.

A rare attributed usage associated with exerting unusual effort.

• Lane · entry 1681