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zimmā - infamy, shameful behaviour, esp. fornication and incest
(HALOT 272)
Also ‘plan’, a homonym to be related to zmm ‘to ponder, plan’ HALOT 273. Note that zimmā ‘fornication’, etc. is rightly distinguished from zimmā ‘plan’ in Jastrow 394.
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PWS
*ḏmm
- to fornicate
(SED I No. 14v; CDG 639)