دَمِثٌ

Even, or soft; applied to a valley, and to anything: (T:) or a place soft and even; (Mgh, TA;) as also ↓ دَمِيثٌ, (A,) and ↓ دَمْثٌ, or ↓ دَمَثٌ; the last also explained as a subst., meaning an even, or a soft, tract of land; apparently a verbal noun used as a subst.: (Mgh:) or دَمِثٌ [in one copy of the S erroneously written دِمِثٌ, and in another دِمْثٌ,] signifies a soft and sandy place; and its plural is دِمَاثٌ: (S:) or a place soft to the tread; as also ↓ دَمَثٌ: and so this last applied to a tract of sand (رَمْلَةٌ); as though it were a verbal noun used as an اِسْم [here meaning an epithet; wherefore it is used alike as masculine and feminine and singular and dual and plural]: and [for this reason] ↓ دَمَثٌ signifies also plain, or soft, tracts of land; plural [of pauc.] أَدْمَاثٌ and [of mult.] دِمَاثٌ: (M:) or دِمَاثٌ has this last meaning; and its singular is ↓ دَمِثَةٌ [with ة added to transfer the word from the category of epithets to that of substantives]; and دِمَاث consist of sands and of what are not sands: دَمَايءِثُ likewise is applied to what is [or are] even and soft; and its singular is ↓ دَمِثَةٌ [like as خَرِبَةٌ is singular of خَرَايءِبُ]: (T: [but for دَمِثَةٌ, in this last instance, I find ↓ دَمِيثَةٌ: if this be right, the plural is agreeable with analogy; but if دَمِثَةٌ be the singular, the plural is anomalous:]) and دَمِثٌ is applied to sand, as meaning not cohering. (TA.) It is said in a tradition, مَالَ إِلَى دَمِثٍ فَبَالَ فِيهِ, (Mgh,) or ↓ دَمْثٍ, (A, Mgh,) according to different readings, i. e. [He turned to] a soft and even place [and made water upon it]. (Mgh.) And you say, ↓ نَزَلْنَا بِأَرْضٍ مَيْثَاءَ دَمْثَاءَ [We alighted, or alighted and abode, in a tract of land even, or soft, or soft and even]. (A.)

Hence, (T,) (tropical:) A man easy in nature, or disposition, (T, M, TA,) and generous; (T;) as also ↓ دَمِيثٌ: (TA:) and in the same sense ↓ دَمِيثَةٌ is applied to a woman; (T;) or دَمِثَةٌ; (TA;) she being likened to land so termed, because such is the best, or most productive, of land. (T, TA.) And دَمِثُ الأَخْلَاقِ (tropical:) A man easy in natural dispositions. (A.)