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
   • a. 1283, Abū Yahyā Zakariyāʾ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات ‎, 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