دهم

أَدْهَمُ ذ Black; (JK, S, * Mgh, Msb, * K;) as also ↓ دُهَامٌ: (K:) the former is applied in this sense to a horse, (S, * Mgh, Msb, * TA,) and to a camel, &c.: (TA:) or, applied to a camel, of a deep ashcolour without any tinge of white; (As, S, Msb, K;) when of a deeper hue, so as to be very black, he is termed جَوْنٌ: (S:) or, as some say, applied to a camel, like أَصْفَرُ, [in this case meaning black with some intermixture of yellow, ] but less black: (TA:) fem. دَهْمَاآءُ; which, when applied to a sheep (S, M, Msb, K) or goat, (S, Msb,) means of a pure or an unmixed brown colour (خَالِصَةُ الحُمْرَةِ): (S, M, Msb, K:) pl. دُهْمٌ. (TA.) The Arabs say, مُلُوكُ الخَيْلِ دُهْمُهَا [ The kings of horses are the black thereof ]. (TA.) And فَرَسٌ أَدْهَمُ بَهِيمٌ A black horse in which is no intermixture of colours. (TA.) And لَا اآتِيكَ مَا حَنَّتِ الدَّهْمَاآءُ [ I will not come to thee as long as she (among the camels) that is of a deep ash-colour without any tinge of white reiterates her yearning cry after her young one; meaning, ever ]. (Lh, TA.) And رَمَادٌ أَدْهَمُ Black ashes. (TA.) ― -b2- حَدِيقَةٌ دَهْمَاآءُ and ↓ مُدْهَامَّةٌ (tropical:) [ A walled garden ] green inclining to black. (K.) Hence, (K,) ↓ مُدْهَامَّتَانِ, (S, K,) in the Kur [lv. 64], (S, TA,) [ Two gardens (جَنَّتَانِ)] of which the greenness inclines to blackness; for every green plant, when its abundance and its moisture, or irrigation, are complete, inclines to blackness: (Zj, TA:) or black by reason of intense greenness arising from abundant moisture, or irrigation; and everything that is green (أَخْضَر) the Arabs term أَسْوَدُ. (S, TA.) ― -b3- رَبْعٌ أَدْهَمُ [ A place of alighting or abode ] recently occupied by the tribe; [because blackened by their fires &c.:] pl. أَرْبُعٌ دُهْمٌ. (TA.) And أَثَرٌ أَدْهَمُ A new, or recent, mark, trace, or vestige: (As, K:) and أَغْيَرُ means one that is “old, becoming effaced:” (As, TA:) and the former means also old, becoming effaced; (K;) as some explain it; (TA;) thus having two contr. significations. (K.) And وَطْأَةٌ دَهْمَاآءُ A new, or recent, footstep, or footprint: and غَبْرَاآءُ means “becoming effaced:” or the former means one that is becoming effaced, because it has become obscure to him who seeks it; (JK;) or an old footstep, or footprint: and حَمْرَاآءُ means one that is “new, or recent.” (S.) [See also أَغْبَرُ.] ― -b4- الدَّهْمَاآءُ also signifies (tropical:) The cooking-pot: (JK, S, A, K:) or the black cooking-pot: (ISh, TA:) and the old cooking-pot. (K. [But it is implied in the TA that this last meaning is a mistake, occasioned by an omission; and that, instead of القِدْرُ وَالقَدِيمَةُ, (in the CK القِدْرُ القَدِيمَةُ,) we should read, القِدْرُ وَالوَطْأَةُ الدَّهْمَاآءُ القَدِيمَةُ, explained above. Accord. to Golius, on the authority of a gloss in the KL, أَبُو الأَدْهَمِ signifies The great cooking-pot in which a whole sheep is cooked at once. ]) ― -b5- And The twenty-ninth night of the [ lunar ] month: (JK, K:) because of its blackness. (TA.) And [the pl.] الدُّهْمُ Three nights of the [ lunar ] month [ during which is the change of the moon ]: (K:) because they are black. (TA.) ― -b6- See also الدُّهَيْمُ. ― -b7- [Used as a subst.,] أَدْهَمُ signifies also A shackle or fetter, or a pair of shackles or fetters; syn. قَيْدٌ: (S, K:) because of the blackness thereof: accord. to AA, of wood: (TA:) or a heavy shackle or fetter or a pair of shackles or fetters: syn. أَدَاهِمُ: (S, K:) because of the blackform of pl., which is proper to substs., because the quality of a subst. is predominant in it. (TA.) ― -b8- And [the fem.] دَهْمَاآءُ signifies (assumed tropical:) A multitude, or large number: (K:) and (assumed tropical:) a company of men; (Ks, S, K; *) and multitude thereof: (Ks, TA:) or (tropical:) the generality, the common mass, or the main part [thereof]: (Z, TA:) or (assumed tropical:) the commonalty, or common people. (Mbr, Har p. 671.) [See also دَهْمٌ.] -A2- Also, دَهْمَاآءُ, The aspect, appearance, mien, guise, or garb, of a man. (JK, S, * K.) -A3- And الدَّهْمَاآءُ A certain herb, or tree, green, and broad in the leaves; (JK;) or a certain broad herb, (K,) having leaves and twigs, resembling the قَرْنُوَة; (TA;) with which one tans. (JK, K.)