دمل

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From the root د م ل (d-m-l). Compare Persian دنبل (donbal, boil).

Verb

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دَمَلَ (damala) I (non-past يَدْمُلُ (yadmulu), verbal noun دَمْل (daml) or دَمَلَان (damalān))

  1. to adjust, to put into a more proper state
  2. to dung, to manure
  3. to heal, to cicatrize [with accusative ‘wound’]
    • a. 1283, Abū Yahyā Zakariyāʾ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات [ʿajāʾib al-maḵlūqāt wa-ḡarāʾib al-mawjūdāt][1], Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, published 1849, page 296:
      لِسَانُ ٱلْعَصَافِيرِ نَبَاتٌ يُشْبِهُ لِسَانَ ٱلْعَصَافِيرِ وَرَقُهُ يَدْمُلُ ٱلْقُرُوحَ وَيَلْحُمُهَا قَالَ ٱلشَّيْخُ ٱلرَّئِيسُ يَنْفَعُ مِنَ ٱلْخَفَقَانِ وَيَزِيدُ فِي ٱلْبَاهِ.
      lisānu l-ʕaṣāfīri nabātun yušbihu lisāna l-ʕaṣāfīri waraquhu yadmulu l-qurūḥa wa-yalḥumuhā qāla š-šayḵu r-raʔīsu yanfaʕu mina l-ḵafaqāni wa-yazīdu fi l-bāhi.
      The ash, by using its leaves, promotes the healing of wounds and patches them. Šayḵ ar-Raʾīs said it helps against fluttering and adds to the libido.

Conjugation

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Noun

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دُمَّل (dummalm (collective, singulative دُمَّلَة f (dummala), plural دَمَامِل (damāmil))

  1. boil, sore, furuncle, abscess, ulcer
    Synonym: خُرَاج (ḵurāj)
    • 7th century CE, Muwaṭṭaʾ Mālik, section 20:
      وَلَا بَأْسَ أَنْ يَبُطَّ الْمُحْرِمُ خُرَاجَهُ وَيَفْقَأَ دُمَّلَهُ وَيَقْطَعَ عِرْقَهُ إِذَا ٱحْتَاجَ إِلَى ذٰلِكَ
      walā baʔsa ʔan yabuṭṭa l-muḥrimu ḵurāja-hū wayafqaʔa dummala-hū wayaqṭaʕa ʕirqa-hū ʔiḏā ḥtāja ʔilā ḏālika
      It is harmless if someone in ihram slits his sore or cracks his boil or cuts his vein if he needs so.

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Derived terms

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Noun

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دَمْل (damlm

  1. verbal noun of دَمَلَ (damala) (form I)

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