دمص

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

The root دمص primarily relates to hastening, dropping, or expelling something prematurely or quickly. It is often associated with animals giving birth or laying eggs, and can also describe a thinning or sparseness, particularly of hair or eyebrows.

Derived headwords

دَمَصَverb

1.
to hastenboth
To move quickly or speed up in any action. The origin is said to be in chickens.
2.
to drop/expel (offspring)both
A female animal, like a camel or a dog, drops or expels her young prematurely or incompletely.
3.
to give birth prematurelyclassical
Used for animals when they give birth and expel what is in their wombs.

دَمْصnoun

1.
hasteningboth
The act of hastening or moving quickly.
2.
premature expulsionclassical
The act of dropping or expelling young prematurely.
3.
thinness (of hair/eyebrows)classical
Thinness of eyebrows from the end and density from the beginning.

أَدْمَصَadjective

1.
thin-ended eyebrowsclassical
Describing a person whose eyebrows are thin at the end and dense at the beginning.
2.
thin-hairedclassical
Describing a person whose hair is thin in a certain area of the head.

أَدْمَصُ الرَّأْسِother

1.
thinning hairclassical
A place on the head where the hair has become thin and sparse.

الدَّمْصnoun

1.
vein in a wallclassical
Any vein or crack in a wall, except for the lowest one, which is called 'rahas'.

الدُّمَيْصnoun

1.
a type of treeclassical
A name for a specific type of tree.

الدَّوْمَصnoun

1.
eggsclassical
A term for eggs.
2.
iron eggclassical
A term for an iron egg, possibly referring to a cannonball or similar object.

الدَّوْمَصَةnoun

1.
eggclassical
Another term for an egg.

Parallel reading

الإسراع في كل شيء

Hastening in everything.

وأصله في الدجاجة

And its origin is in the chicken.

يقال: دمصت بالكيكة

It is said: she hastened with the cake.

ويقال للمرأة إذا رمت ولدها بزحرة واحدة: قد دمصت به وزكبت به.

And it is said of a woman if she delivered her child in a single push: she has delivered him quickly.

ودمصت الناقة بولدها تدمص دمصا: أزلقته.

And the she-camel dropped her young, she drops it, a dropping: she slid it out.

ودمصت الكلبة بجروها: ألقته لغير تمام.

And the female dog dropped her puppy: she threw it out incompletely.

يقال دمصت الكلبة ولدها إذا أسقطته، ولا يقال في الكلاب أسقطت.

It is said the female dog dropped her young if she aborted it, and it is not said of dogs that they aborted.

ودمصت السباع إذا ولدت ووضعت ما في بطونها.

And wild animals drop when they give birth and expel what is in their wombs.

والدمص: رقة الحاجب من أخر وكثافته من قدم، رجل أدمص؛

And 'admas': thinness of the eyebrow from the end and density from the beginning, a man 'admas';

ودمص رأسه: رق شعره.

And his head 'damasa': his hair became thin.

وهو الذي رق حاجبه من أخر وكثف من قدم، أو رق من رأسه موضع وقل شعره.

And he is one whose eyebrow is thin at the end and dense at the beginning, or a place on his head is thin and its hair has decreased.

وربما قالوا: أدمص الرأس إذا رق منه موضع وقل شعره.

And sometimes they say: the head is 'admas' if a place on it becomes thin and its hair decreases.

والدمص، بكسر الدال: كل عرق من أعراق الحائط ما عدا العرق الأسفل فإنه رهص.

And 'dimas', with a kasra on the dal: every vein of the veins of the wall except the lowest vein, for it is 'rahas'.

والدميص: شجر؛ عن السيرافي.

And 'ad-dimays': a tree; according to As-Sirafi.

والدومص: البيض؛ عن ثعلب؛

And 'ad-domas': eggs; according to Tha'lab;

يا ليته قد كان شيخا أدمصا، ... تشبه الهامة منه الدومصا

Oh, I wish he had been an 'admas' old man, ... his skull resembles 'ad-domas'.

ويروى: الدوفصا، وقد تقدم ذكر الدوفص.

And it is narrated: 'ad-dufas', and 'ad-dufas' has been mentioned previously.

يقال للبيضة الدومصة.

The egg is called 'ad-domasah'.

والدومص بيضة الحديد.

And 'ad-domas' is the egg of iron.