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(ن، ض) نَمَّ يَنُمُّ وَيَنِمُّ نَمًّاnamma yanummu wa-yanimmu namman (original form: نَمَمَ يَنْمُمُnamama yanmumu): to carry tales, to pass talk from one person to another; the lexicographers say the basic sense is the faint appearance of a sound. (This verb is not used in the Quran.)
نَمِيْمٌ وَنَمِيْمَةٌnamīm wa-namīmah (on the pattern of فَعِيْلٌfaʿīl): slander, tale-bearing. Only once in the Quran, among those nine blameworthy traits: ﴿هَمَّازٍ مَّشَّآءٍۢ بِنَمِيْمٍ﴾ (Al-Qalam 68:11)