دلم

دَيْلَمٌ ديلم The blacks, or negroes. (T, TA. [But الدَّيْلَمُ is more commonly known as the name of a certain people to be mentioned in what follows.]) ― -b2- The Abyssinian, i. e. black, ant: (M:) or, as some say, (M,) a place where ants and ticks collect, at the places where the camels stand when they come to drink at the watering-troughs, and where they lie down at the watering-places: (S, M, K:) [or] ants [themselves]; (T, TA;) and ticks; both said by Z to be so called because they are enemies to the camels [from a signification of the same word to be mentioned below]: (TA:) or numerous ants. (Har p. 586.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) An army; likened to ants in respect of its numerousness: (TA:) or a numerous army. (T.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) An assembly, or assemblage, (S, M, K,) or a numerous assembly or assemblage, (TA,) of men, (S, TA,) and of things of any kind. (M, TA.) ― -b5- Camels [collectively]. (TA.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) Enemies: (ISk, T, S, M, K:) and an enemy: pl. دَيَالِمَةٌ: so called because the people named الدَّيْلَمُ are notorious for evil and enmity: (Z, TA:) because the دَيْلَم are enemies to the Arabs: (M:) they are a certain people, (T, S, M, K,) well known; (M, K;) [ inhabitants of a mountainous tract, a part of the ancient Media, on the south of the Caspian Sea; ] called by Kr the تُرْك [or Turks ]; (M;) but accord. to the opinion commonly held by the genealogists, (TA,) they are said to be of the descendants of Dabbeh Ibn-Udd, whom some of the kings of the 'Ajam [or Persians ] placed in those mountains [ which their posterity inhabit ], and who there multiplied: (T, TA:) or الدَّيْلَمُ is a surname of the Benoo-Dabbeh, (S, * K,) because of their blackness, (K,) or because they, or the generality of them, are دُلْم [pl. of أَدْلَمُ]. (S.) ― -b7- [Hence, perhaps,] دَيْلَمٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) A calamity, or misfortune. (S, K.) -A2- Also The male of the دُرَّاج [i. e. attagen, francolin, heath-cock, or rail ]. (Ktr, Kr, S, M, K.) ― -b2- And A species of [ the bird called ] the قَطَا: or the male thereof [like دَلْهَمٌ]. (K.) -A3- Also The tree called سَلَام, (T, K,) which grows in the mountains. (T.)