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Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)Root · n · m · m

ن م م

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Meaning

Morphology · Lane's Lexicon · CC BY-SA 3.0

From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root نم. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

نَمَّ He [uttered calumny: or] excited discord, or dissension, and made known discourse in a mischievous manner; or embellished speech with falsehood. (M, K.) You say, نَمَّ بِهِ and عَلَيْهِ , inf. n. نَمٌّ and نَمِيمَةٌ and نَمِيمٌ , or this last is pl. of نَمِيمَةٌ , (M,) meaning, He calumniated him; or misrepresented him. ― -b2- نَمَّ الحَدِيثَ He made known, divulged, or told, conversation, in a malicious or mischievous manner, so as to occasion discord, dissension, or the like. (TA, art. قت ; and Msb. *)

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نَمْنَمَ He variegated a thing: he decorated or embellished it. (S, K.)

نَمِيمَةٌ The sound of the bow-string. (Kr.) ― -b2- نَمِيمَةٌ Malicious and mischievous misrepresentation; calumny; slander; (S, K;) the embel-lishment of speech with falsehood. (Kr.)

نَمَانِمُ The sutures of the skull; as resembling lines of writing; see شَأْنٌ .

نَمَّامٌ now commonly applied to Wild thyme, thymus serpyllum: see شَبَهَانٌ .

نَامَّةٌ The artery in the head: see أَبْهَرُ .

مُنَمْنَمٌ A garment, or piece of cloth, figured with marks resembling writing, or otherwise. See مَذَبَّرٌ .

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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

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