فَدْمٌ

Impotent (T, S, M, K) in speech, (T, M, K,) and in adducing an argument; (T, M;) [as though his mouth were covered with a فِدَام, for it is said in the S to be from فَدَمْتُ عَلَى فِيهِ بِالفِدَامِ;] heavy, sluggish, or dull; (S;) or with heaviness, sluggishness, or dulness, and softness, and paucity of understanding: (M, K:) or unintelligent: (Msb:) and thick; (M, K;) fat; (M;) foolish, or stupid; rough, rude, or uncivil: (M, K:) according to IAar, the heavy, sluggish, or dull; as being likened to blood, which is thus called: (T:) and ثَدْمٌ is a dialect var. thereof, or, according to Yaakoob, the ث is a substitute for the ف: (M:) the feminine is with ة: (M, Msb, K:) and the plural is فِدَامٌ [agreeably with analogy]. (M, K: in a copy of the T فُدُم [which I think a mistranscription].)

Also Heavy [and apparently thick] blood: and, according to IAar, blood [itself]. (T.)

And A garment, or piece of cloth, (T, TA,) saturated with dye, (T,) or saturated with red dye by its being put again into the safflower time after time. (TA.) And Red that is saturated (M, K) with redness: (K:) or of which the redness is not intense. (Thus also in some copies of the K.) [See also مُفْدَمٌ.]