ذ • ي • م

, (T, M, Msb, K,) first pers. ذِمْتُهُ, (S,) aor. يَذِيمُ, (T, &c.,) inf. n. ذَيْمٌ and ذَامٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) He blamed, or found fault with, him, or it, (T, S, M, Msb, K,) namely, a commodity; like ذَأَمَهُ: (Msb:) accord. to Akh, ذِمْتُهُ and ذَأَمْتُهُ and ذَمَمْتُهُ all signify the same. (S.)

and ↓ ذَامٌ are inf. ns., (S, M, Msb, K,) and are syn. with عَيْبٌ [as such, and also as meaning A vice, fault, defect, or the like; in the latter sense syn. with ذَامٌّ, which belongs to art. ذم]: (T, S, M, Msb, * K:) or, as some say, syn. with ذَمٌّ [blame, &c.]. (M.) It is said in a prov., ↓ لَاتَعْدَمُ الحَسْنَآءُ ذَامًا [The beautiful female is not without a defect]. (S.)

Blamed, or found fault with; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ مَذْيُومٌ: (S, K:) the former defective, and the latter complete: (S:) applied [app. to a man; (see the dial. var. مَذْؤُومٌ, as used in the Kur vii. 17;) and] to a commodity. (Msb.)