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دم

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

4 ادمّ أدام أدم أدمى ادم دام دم دمى دمي آدم He did what was bad, evil, abominable, or foul; syn. أَقْبَحَ (Lth, T, K) and أَسَاآءَ: (Lth, T: [see also 1, last sentence: in the K, also, and in the M, the sec. pers., أَدْمَمْتَ, is explained as meaning أَقْبَحْتَ الفِعْلَ, which is a pleonasm for أَقْبَحْتَ:]) or he had a child, or offspring, borne to him such as is termed دَمِيمٌ (K, TA) or قَبِيحٌ دَمِيمٌ (so in the CK) in make. (TA.)

Derived headwords

ادمّverb
  1. 1.
أَقْبَحْتَ الفِعْلَ