amplify, enlarge, inflate

, [aor. ,] (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. ضِخَمٌ, (S, Msb, TA,) accord. to the copies of the K ضَخْمٌ, but this is wrong, (TA,) and ضَخَامَةٌ, (S, Msb, K,) It, or he, was, or became, large, big, bulky, (S, * Msb, K,) or thick: (S:) or large in body, portly, or corpulent, and fleshy. (K.)

(Ibn-'Abbád and K * voce أَدْلَفَ) [i. q. أَغْلَظَ لَهُ] (assumed tropical:) He spoke to him in a rough, harsh, coarse, rude, uncivil, or ungentle, manner. (TK in art. دلف.)

(S, Msb, K) and ↓ ضَخَمٌ (K) and ↓ ضُخَامٌ (S, K) and ↓ أَضْخَمُ, (K,) which last is also with teshdeed of the final letter, (S, K,) i. e. ↓ أضْخَمُّ, in poetry, (S, TA,) for there is no word [properly] of the measure أَفْعَلُّ, and IJ mentions ↓ إِضْخَمٌّ, [evidently in the same sense,] like إِرْدَبٌّ [in measure], (TA,) Large, big, bulky, (S, * Msb, K,) or thick; (S;) applied to a thing (Msb, K) of any kind: (K:) or large in body, portly, or corpulent, and fleshy: (K:) pl. ضخَامٌ; (S, Msb;) like سِهَامٌ pl. of سَهْمٌ: (Msb:) fem. ضَخْمَةٌ, (S, Msb,) applied to a woman; (Msb;) pl. ضَخْمَاتٌ, with the خ quiescent, (S, Msb,) because it is an epithet. (S.) See also مِضْخَمٌ. ― -b2- It was said to a man, إِنَّ لَكَ لَخَيْرٌ [app. meaning “ Verily thou hast wealth ”]; and he replied, أَجَلْ خَيْرٌ ضَخْمُ العُنُقِ [app., (tropical:) Yea, large wealth]; which is tropical. (TA.) And one says, لَهُ سُودَدٌ ضَخْمٌ (assumed tropical:) [He has great lordship or dignity], and شَرَفٌ ضَخْمٌ [great nobility], and شَأْنٌ َضَخْمٌ [great importance or rank]. (TA.) ― -b3- ضَخْمٌ applied to a road means (tropical:) Wide. (K, TA.) ― -b4- And applied to water, (tropical:) Heavy. (K, TA.)

: see the next preceding paragraph.

, applied to a woman, (tropical:) Very wide, or wide and fat, (عَرِيضَةٌ أَرِيضَةٌ,) and soft, or tender. (K, TA.)

: see ضَخْمٌ.

: see ضَخْمٌ. ― -b2- One says [also], هٰذَا أَضْخَمُ مِنْهُ [This is larger, bigger, &c., than it, or he]. (S.)

and إِضْخَمٌّ: see ضَخْمٌ.

A woman's عِظَامَة [or thing resembling a pillow], (S, K, TA,) with which she makes herself [to appear] large behind her waist [or posteriors]. (TA.)

, as an epithet applied to a chief, or lord, (tropical:) Noble, and portly, or corpulent; (K, TA;) as also ↓ ضَخْمٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- And, applied to a man, (TA,) (tropical:) Vehement in dashing himself against another; and in striking, or beating. (K, TA.)