دمل

Arabic

Etymology

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

Verb

⁧دَمَلَ⁩ • (damala) I, non-past ⁧يَدْمُلُ⁩‎ (yadmulu)

  1. to adjust, to put into a more proper state
  2. to dung, to manure
  3. to heal, to cicatrize [+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]‎, 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

Noun

⁧دُمَّل⁩ • (dummal) m (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.

Declension

Derived terms

  • ⁧دُمَّلِيّ⁩ (dummaliyy)

Noun

⁧دَمْل⁩ • (daml) m

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

Declension

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