دمث

دَمِثٌ دمث Even, or soft; applied to a valley, and to anything: (T:) or a place soft and even; (Mgh, TA;) as also ↓ دَمِيثٌ, (A,) and ↓ دَمْثٌ, or ↓ دَمَثٌ; the last also explained as a subst., meaning an even, or a soft, tract of land; app. an inf. n. used as a subst.: (Mgh:) or دَمِثٌ [in one copy of the S erroneously written دِمِثٌ, and in another دِمْثٌ,] signifies a soft and sandy place; and its pl. is دِمَاثٌ: (S:) or a place soft to the tread; as also ↓ دَمَثٌ: and so this last applied to a tract of sand (رَمْلَةٌ); as though it were an inf. n. used as an اِسْم [here meaning an epithet; wherefore it is used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. and dual and pl.]: and [for this reason] ↓ دَمَثٌ signifies also plain, or soft, tracts of land; pl. [of pauc.] أَدْمَاثٌ and [of mult.] دِمَاثٌ: (M:) or دِمَاثٌ has this last meaning; and its sing. is ↓ دَمِثَةٌ [with ة added to transfer the word from the category of epithets to that of substantives]; and دِمَاث consist of sands and of what are not sands: دَمَائِثُ likewise is applied to what is [or are ] even and soft; and its sing. is ↓ دَمِثَةٌ [like as خَرِبَةٌ is sing. of خَرَائِبُ]: (T: [but for دَمِثَةٌ, in this last instance, I find ↓ دَمِيثَةٌ: if this be right, the pl. is agreeable with analogy; but if دَمِثَةٌ be the sing., the pl. is anomalous:]) and دَمِثٌ is applied to sand, as meaning not cohering. (TA.) It is said in a trad., مَالَ اـِلَى دَمِثٍ فَبَالَ فِيهِ, (Mgh,) or ↓ دَمْثٍ, (A, Mgh,) accord. to different readings, i. e. [ He turned to ] a soft and even place [ and made water upon it ]. (Mgh.) And you say, ↓ نَزَلْنَا بِأَرْضٍ مَيْثَاآءَ دَمْثَاآءَ [ We alighted, or alighted and abode, in a tract of land even, or soft, or soft and even ]. (A.) ― -b2- Hence, (T,) (tropical:) A man easy in nature, or disposition, (T, M, TA,) and generous; (T;) as also ↓ دَمِيثٌ: (TA:) and in the same sense ↓ دَمِيثَةٌ is applied to a woman; (T;) or دَمِثَةٌ; (TA;) she being likened to land so termed, because such is the best, or most productive, of land. (T, TA.) And دَمِثُ الأَخْلَاقِ (tropical:) A man easy in natural dispositions. (A.)