دمل

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

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, →DOI, 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.

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.

• دُمَّلِيّ (dummaliyy)

دَمْل • (daml) m

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