שְׁמָמָה, preced. wds.) waste, desolation. M. Kat. 17ᵃ, v. שַׁמְתָּא.—Pl. שְׁמָמוֹת, constr. שִׁמְמוֹת. Cant. R. to III, 4 (ref. to Is. XXI, 1) דרך ש׳ מדבר בא he (Nebuchadnezzar) came by the way of the deserts of the wilderness. Lam. R. introd., end (in an obscure passage) מש׳ הארץ from the deserts of the land.