evoke tears, drive to tears

, aor. , (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. دَمْعٌ (S, Msb) and دَمَعَانٌ and دُمُوعٌ; (TA;) and دَمِعَت, (AO, S, Msb, K,) aor. , (Msb, K,) inf. n. دَمَعٌ; (AO, S, Msb, TA; [in one copy of the S, دَمْعٌ, which is a mistake;]) or only دَمَعَت, with fet-h to the م; (AZ, Ks;) The eye shed tears. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- دَمَعَ الجُرْحُ (tropical:) The wound flowed [with blood]. (TA.) And دَمَعَتِ الشَّجَّةُ (assumed tropical:) The wound on the head flowed with blood; its blood ran. (Msb.) ― -b3- دَمَعَتِ الجَفْنَةُ (tropical:) The bowl flowed [or overflowed] with its grease, or gravy. (TA.) And دَمْعٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The flowing from the strainer of the dyer. (TA.) ― -b4- Aboo- 'Adnán says, I asked El-'Okeylee respecting this verse: " وَالشَّمْسُ تَدْمَعُ عَيْنَاهَا وَمَنْخِرُهَا وَهُنَّ يَخْرُجْنَ مِنْ بِيدٍ إِلَى بِيدِ " [app. meaning (assumed tropical:) And the sun was shedding its fierce rays and its gossamer when they were going forth from deserts to deserts]: and he said, I think [that the poet means] it was the ظَهِيرَة [or midday of summer when the heat was vehement], when what is called لُعَابُ الشَّمْسِ [and مُخَاطُ الشَّمْسِ, which latter is here the more appropriate term,] was flowing [in the air]: and El-Ghanawee says, when the beasts thirst, their eyes shed tears, and their nostrils flow. (TA.) -A2- See also 4.

Vehement flowing of tears from the eye. (KL.)

, (IAar,) inf. n. إِدْمَاعٌ, (K,) (tropical:) He filled it, [app. so as to make it overflow,] (IAar, K,) namely a bowl, (IAar,) or a vessel; (K;) as also ↓ دَمَعَهُ [if this be not a mistranscription for the former]. (TA.)

[He shed tears; or wept]. (Occurring in a version of the Gospel of St. John, xi. 35: but perhaps post-classical.)

[app. He draws forth tears]. (TA.)

Tears; the water, or fluid, of the eye; (S, Msb, K;) whether from grief or joy: (K:) originally an inf. n.: (Msb:) [but having a pl., both of mult. and of pauc.: for] the pl. [of mult.] is دُمُوعٌ (K) and [of pauc.] أَدْمُعٌ: (TA:) and ↓ دَمْعةٌ [is the n. un., signifying] a single drop thereof; [i. e. a tear:] (S, K:) if from joy, it is cool; or if from grief, hot. (TA.) ― -b2- دَمْعُ دَاوُودَ [David's tears;] a certain well known medicine: (Sgh, K:) [perhaps the fruits of a species of coix, namely coix lachryma, now called دَمْعُ أَيُّوبَ, or Job's tears, which are hard and stony, and are said to be strengthening and diuretic.] ― -b3- بَكَتِ السَّمَاءُ وَدَمْعُ السَّحَابِ سَالِ (tropical:) [The sky wept, and the tears of the clouds flowed]. (TA.) ― -b4- ↓ شَرِبِ دَمْعَةٌ الكَرْمِ (tropical:) [He drank the tear of the vine]; i. e., wine. (A, TA.) ― -b5- دُمُوعِ الجَفْنَةِ (tropical:) [The tears, meaning] the grease, or gravy, of the bowl. (TA.)

[ masc. of] دَمِعَةٌ A woman quick to shed tears: (S, K:) or quick to weep, abounding with tears; (L;) as also ↓ دَمِيعٌ, without ة; (Lh, L;) of which latter, which is applied also to a man, the pl. is دُمَعَآءُ, applied to men, and دَمْعَى, applied to men and to women, and دَمَايأِعُ, applied to women. (L.) [See also دَمُوعٌ.]

A mark made with a hot iron in the part where the tears run, (El-Ahmar, S, K, TA,) of a camel; (El-Ahmar;) said by Aboo-'Alee, in the “Tedhkireh,” to be a small line. (TA.)

: see دَمْعٌ, in two places.

(tropical:) A bowl that is full so as to overflow (L, K, * TA) from its sides. (L, TA.)

Water of the eye arising from disease or old age; not tears: (S:) or, as some say, the traces of tears upon the face: thus in the handwriting of Aboo-Zekereeyà, in the margin of a copy of the S. (TA.) ― -b2- دُمَاعُ الكَرْمِ, (S, A,) or ↓ الدُّمَّاعُ, like رُمَّان, (K,) and thus written by Sgh, with teshdeed, (TA,) (tropical:) What flows from the grape-vine in the days of the [season called] رَبِيع (S, A, K, * TA.)

A mark made with a hot iron upon the مَنَاظِر (فِى المَنَاظِرِ [app. a mistake for فِى النَّاظِرِ, meaning upon the place of the vein at the edge of the nose, commencing from the inner angle of the eye,]) running down to the nostril, (K, TA,) so says ISh, (TA,) or to the nostrils: (CK:) sometimes there are two such marks. (TA.)