دمغ

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the brain and severe head injuries. It also extends to a specific type of severe wound that penetrates the skull to the brain, and metaphorically to a destructive growth on a palm tree.

Derived headwords

الدِّمَاغnoun

1.
one of the brainsboth
one of the brains

أَدْمِغَةnoun

1.
brainsboth
The plural form of 'al-dimāgh', referring to multiple brains.

دَمَغَهُverb

1.
he fractured his skull until the wound reached the brainboth
he fractured his skull until the wound reached the brain

دَمْغًاnoun

1.
severe head woundclassical
The act or instance of inflicting a wound that reaches the brain.

الدَّامِغَةnoun

1.
the tenth type of head woundboth
the tenth type of head wound

الدَّامِعَةnoun

1.
a type of wound (shijāj) after the dāmiʿaboth
a type of wound (shijāj) after the dāmiʿa
2.
if blood flows from it, then it is the dāmiʿaboth
if blood flows from it, then it is the dāmiʿa

Parallel reading

الدماغ: واحد الأدمغة.

The brain: the singular of brains.

وقد دمغه (2) دمغا: شجه حتى بلغت الشجة الدماغ، واسمها الدامغة

And he wounded him severely (damaghahu damghan): he split his head until the wound reached the brain, and its name is al-dāmighah.

لان الشجاج عشرة: أولها القاشرة وهى الحارصة، ثم الباضعة، ثم الدامية، ثم المتلاحمة، ثم السمحاق، ثم الموضحة، ثم الهاشمة، ثم المنقلة، ثم الآمة، ثم الدامغة.

Because the head wounds are ten: the first is al-qāshirah, which is al-ḥāriṣah, then al-bāḍiʿah, then al-dāmiyah, then al-mutalāḥimah, then al-samḥāq, then al-mūḍiḥah, then al-hāshimah, then al-manqalah, then al-āmah, then al-dāmighah.

وزاد أبو عبيدة الدامعة بعين غير معجمة بعد الدامية (1).

And Abu Ubaydah added al-dāmiʿah with an undotted 'ayn after al-dāmiyah.

والدامغة: طلعة تخرج من بين شظيات القلب طويلة صلبة إن تركت أفسدت النخلة.

And al-dāmighah: a protrusion that emerges from between the heartwood of a palm tree, long and hard; if left, it spoils the palm tree.