דְּמֵי I, דְּמָא ch. same 1) to be dumb. Targ. Hab. II, 19 דַּמְיָא (some ed. incorr. ר׳). —2) to imagine, suspect, consider, Targ. I Kings VIII, 27 דָּמֵי (incorr. חמי).—Part. act. a. pass. דָּמֵי suspected, considered; resembling, like.—Yeb. 114ᵇ אמרה בדְדָמֵי she speaks of what was to be suspected (under the circumstances, though she has not seen it).—שפיר דמי it is considered as right, it is right. Ab. Zar. 38ᵇ ש׳ ד׳ it is all right (is permitted). Ber. 13ᵇ הא מיגנא ש׳ ד׳ but to lie (on the back) is permitted; a. v. fr.—Ber. 25ᵇ כוליה ביתא … ד׳ the entire house is to be considered (for legal purposes) as four cubits. Ib. 4ᵇ כתפלה אריכתא דַמְיָא is to be considered as one continued prayer, v. אֲרִיכָא; a. fr.—היכי דמי (abbrev. ה"ד) what is it like? in what case? Yeb. 63ᵇ ה"ד אשה רעה what do you call ‘a bad wife’? Sabb. 4ᵃ ה"ר אילימא וכ׳ what case do you mean? Do you mean the case of an involuntary transgressor &c.?; a. v. fr.—Targ. Y. I Deut. XXXII, 32, v. Pa.—Erub. 54ᵃ כהלולא ד׳ is like a wedding feast (soon passing away). B. Kam. 85ᵃ דַּמְיַת עלי כאריא וכ׳, v. אֲרַב. Taan. 21ᵇ דַּמְיָין מעייהו ל־ their entrails look like those of human beings; a. fr.—Pes. 14ᵇ, a. fr. מי דָמֵי is this like (the other)?, i.e. there is no analogy between them.
    Pa. - דַּמֵּי 1) to compare. Targ. Is. XL, 25; a. fr.—Ḥull. 55ᵇ, a. e. טרפות קא מְדַמְּיַת להדדי you compare cases of T’refoth to one another (form an analogy)? (v. preced. Pi.). Snh. 47ᵃ מי קא מדמית וכ׳ can you compare &c.?—Part. pass. מְדַמֵּי, f. מְדַמְיָא, pl. מְדַמְיָין. Targ. Y. II, Deut. XXXII, 32 sq. (Y. I דמי׳). —2) to imagine, speculate. Targ. Jud. XI, 23. Targ. Is. XLV, 9; a. e.
    Ithpe. - אִיתְדְּמֵי, אִידְּמֵי, , אִדְּ׳ 1) to be like, to take an example. Targ. Prov. VI, 6 אִתְדְּמֵא וכ׳ imitate the ant (ed. Vien. אִתְרְמֵי, read אתד׳). Targ. Ps. CII, 7; a. e.—Y. Shek. IV, 48ᵈ top; Y. Dem. I, 21ᵈ bot. לא אִידְּמִינָן we cannot compare ourselves. Gitt. 57ᵇ אייתו דמי ולא אִידְּמוּ they brought blood of animals but it did not look like (the blood of the prophet); a. fr. —2) to appear in the disguise of. Kidd. 81ᵃ … אי׳ ליה שטן כ Satan appeared to him as a woman &c. Ib. 29ᵇ אי׳ ליה וכ׳ (a demon) appeared to him as a monster &c. Snh. 95ᵃ אד׳; a. fr.