ضجم
1 ضَجِمَ, (
MA,
K,)
aor. ـَ (
K,)
inf. n. ضَجَمٌ, (
MA,
K, *) It was, or became, distorted, or crooked; said of the mouth; (
MA,
K;) and in like manner one says of the side of the mouth; and of the lip; and of the chin; and of the neck: (
K:) and likewise, (
tropical:) of a well: and (
tropical:) of a wound. (
K,
TA.) [See ضَجَمٌ below.]
6 تضاجم [He was, or became, distorted, or crooked, in the mouth: (see its part.
n., below:) and so,
accord. to Golius, ↓ اضجمّ and ↓ اضجامّ.
b2: And] (
tropical:)
i. q. اِخْتَلَفَ: (
S,
K,
TA:) so in the saying, تَضَاجَمَ الأَمْرُ بَيْنَهُمْ (
tropical:) [The affair, or case, was, or became, complicated, intricate, or confused, so as to be a subject of disagreement, or difference, between them]. (
S,
TA.) And hence the saying, الأَسْمَآءُ تَضَاجَمُ [for تَتَضَاجَمُ] i. e. تَخْتَلِفُ [meaning (
tropical:) Names are dissimilar, diverse, or various]. (
TA.) 9 إِضْجَمَّand 11: see the next preceding paragraph.
ضَجَمٌ
inf. n. of ضَجِمَ [
q. v.]: (
MA,
K: *) [as a simple
subst.,] Distortion, or crookedness, (
S,
K,) [in an absolute sense; and particularly,] in the mouth; and in the side of the mouth; and in the lip; and in the chin; and in the neck: (
K:) and in the nose; (
Lth,
TA;) its inclining towards one side (
Lth,
S,
TA) of the face: (
S,
TA:) and in one of the shoulders: (
S,
TA:) and,
accord. to the
M, in the bill [for خط in the
TA (an obvious mistranscription) I read خَطْم] of the male ostrich: and sometimes in the mouth together with the nose: (
TA:) and in like manner (
tropical:) in a well: and (
tropical:) in a wound. (
K,
TA.) ضُجْمَةٌ A certain small creeping thing (دُوَيْبَّةٌ) of foul odour, (
K,
TA,) that stings, or bites. (
TA.) أَضْجَمُ Having the quality termed ضَجَمٌ,
expl. above: (
K:) [or, particularly,] having the nose inclining towards one side of the face: (
S:) [
fem. ضَجْمَآءُ: and
pl. ضُجْمٌ.] And [hence] قَلِيبٌ أَضْجَمُ (assumed
tropical:) A well having a crookedness in the wall that surrounds its interior: or that is not dug in a straight, or an even, direction:
pl. قُلُبٌ ضُجْمٌ. (
TA.) El-'Ajjáj has applied the phrase قُلُبٌ ضُجْمٌ to (
tropical:) Wide wounds; as likened to the wells thus termed. (
TA.)
b2: And [the
pl.] ضُجْمٌ signifies also (assumed
tropical:) Men who eat much. (
IAar,
TA.) مُتَضَاجِمٌ Distorted, or crooked, in the mouth, (
S,
K.)
