دِمٌنَةٌ
1.
See دِمْنٌ.
Also A trace, (M,) or traces, (K,) of a house or an abode: (M, K: *) and the traces of men [in a place where they have sojourned]; and a place which they have blackened; (S, M, Msb, K, TA;) where they have left marks of the dung of cattle; a patch of ground which the people who have occupied it have blackened, and where their cattle have staled and dunged: (TA:) [a black, or dark, patch of compacted dung and urine of cattle:] a place near to a house or an abode: (M, K:) a place in which [dung such as is called] سِرْقِين has become compacted, or caked: (M, TA:) and a piece of زِبْل [i. e. سرقين]: (TA:) plural دِمَنٌ (S, M, K) and دِمْنٌ, (M, Msb, K,) or [rather] the latter is a [coll.] gen. n.: (M:) [according to Az,] دِمْنٌ signifies what men have blackened [where they have sojourned, consisting] of the traces of بَعْر &c.; and is a gen. n., and also plural of دِمْنَةٌ. (T.) It is said in a tradition, إِيَّاكُمْ وَخَضْرَاءَ الدِّمَنِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Avoid ye the beautiful woman that is of bad origin: she is thus likened to the herbage that grows in the دِمَن; that appears to be in a flourishing condition, but is unwholesome as food, and of stinking origin. (M. [See also أَخْضَرُ: and see عُشْبَةُ الدَّارِ, in article عشب.])