نمش
1 نَمِشَ,
aor. ـَ (
K,)
inf. n. نَمَشٌ. (
TA,) He, or it, was, or became, speckled with white and black: or marked with sports upon the skin differing from it in colour. (
K.) See نَمَشٌ below.
A2: نَمَشَهُ,
inf. n. نَمْشٌ, He variegated it; or decorated, or embellished, it: (
TA;) [as also ↓ نمّشهُ, but
app. in an intensive sense, for its
inf. n.] تَنْميشٌ is
syn. with تَدْبِيجٌ. (
TA.)
b2: [And hence,
app.,] (assumed
tropical:) He mixed, or confounded, it, e. g., good speech with bad; as also the ↓ latter of these two words. (
TA.) 2 نَمَّشَ see 1, in two places.
نَمْشٌ A mark, trace, vestige, or relic. (
TA.) نَمَشٌ White and black specks (
S,
A,
Mgh,
K) in a colour: (
TA:) or spots in the skin differing from it in colour; (
IDrd,
A,
K;) sometimes in horses, and mostly in such as are of a sorrel colour. (
TA.)
b2: Lines, or streaks, of variegations or decorations in variegated or figured cloth, &c. (
K.)
b3: Whiteness in the roots, or lower parts, of the nails, which goes away and returns. (
TA.) نَمِشٌ Speckled with white and black; applied to a bull; (
TA:) and so ↓ أَنْمَشُ; (
Mgh,
TA;) applied to a man. (
Mgh.) You say, ثَوْرٌ نَمِشٌ, meaning, A wild bull, which has specks (
S,
TA) and lines. or streaks. (
TA.) And ثَوْرٌ نَمِشٌ القَوَائِمِ A bull having black lines, or streaks, in the legs. (
A.) And ↓ عَنْزٌ نَمْشَآءُ A she-goat that is black speckled with white, or white speckled with black. (
TA.)
b2: سَيْفٌ نَمِشٌ (
tropical:) A sword in which are diversified wavy streaks. (
A,
K, *
TA.)
b3: بَعِيرٌ نَمِشٌ A camel having in his foot a mark that becomes distinctly shown upon the ground, without any mark thereon made artificially; (Ibn-'Abbád,
K;) and so بعير نَهِشٌ. (Ibn-'Abbàd,
TA.) أَنْمَشُ:
fem. نَمْشَآءُ: see نَمِشٌ, in two places.