ن • م

He [uttered calumny: or] excited discord, or dissension, and made known discourse in a mischievous manner; or embellished speech with falsehood. (M, K.) You say, نَمَّ بِهِ and عَلَيْهِ, inf. n. نَمٌّ and نَمِيمَةٌ and نَمِيمٌ, or this last is pl. of نَمِيمَةٌ, (M,) meaning, He calumniated him; or misrepresented him. نَمَّ الحَدِيثَ He made known, divulged, or told, conversation, in a malicious or mischievous manner, so as to occasion discord, dissension, or the like. (TA, art. قت; and Msb. *)

A garment, or piece of cloth, figured with marks resembling writing, or otherwise. See مَذَبَّرٌ.

The artery in the head: see أَبْهَرُ.

The sutures of the skull; as resembling lines of writing; see شَأْنٌ.

The sound of the bow-string. (Kr.) نَمِيمَةٌ Malicious and mischievous misrepresentation; calumny; slander; (S, K;) the embel-lishment of speech with falsehood. (Kr.)

He variegated a thing: he decorated or embellished it. (S, K.)

now commonly applied to Wild thyme, thymus serpyllum: see شَبَهَانٌ.