دمن

دِمٌنَةٌ دمن دمنه دمننه دمنة : see the next preceding paragraph. Also A trace, (M,) or traces, (K,) of a house or an abode: (M, K: *) and the traces of men [ in a place where they have sojourned ]; and a place which they have blackened; (S, M, Msb, K, TA;) where they have left marks of the dung of cattle; a patch of ground which the people who have occupied it have blackened, and where their cattle have staled and dunged: (TA:) [ a black, or dark, patch of compacted dung and urine of cattle: ] a place near to a house or an abode: (M, K:) a place in which [ dung such as is called ] سِرْقِين has become compacted, or caked: (M, TA:) and a piece of زِبْل [i. e. سرقين]: (TA:) pl. دِمَنٌ (S, M, K) and ↓ دِمْنٌ, (M, Msb, K,) or [rather] the latter is a [coll.] gen. n.: (M:) [accord. to Az,] ↓ دِمْنٌ signifies what men have blackened [ where they have sojourned, consisting ] of the traces of بَعْر &c.; and is a gen. n., and also pl. of دِمْنَةٌ. (T.) It is said in a trad., اـِيَّاكُمْ وَخَضْرَاآءَ الدِّمَنِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Avoid ye the beautiful woman that is of bad origin: she is thus likened to the herbage that grows in the دِمَن; that appears to be in a flourishing condition, but is unwholesome as food, and of stinking origin. (M. [See also أَخْضَرُ: and see عُشْبَةُ الدَّارِ, in art. عشب.]) ― -b2- Also (tropical:) Rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite, (T, S, M, Msb, K, TA,) of long continuance (↓ مُنْدَمِنٌ M, or قَدِيمٌ K, and ثَابِتٌ TA) in the bosom: it is said that it is not thus termed unless of long continuance: (M, TA:) pl. دِمَنٌ (T, K) and [coll. gen. n.] ↓ دِمْنٌ. (Msb, K.)