Jastrow: דְּמַאי

דְּמַאי, דְּמַי m. (דמי) suspicion, talk, whence (cmp. דּוּמָה, שְׁתוֹקִי) D’mai, fruits about which there is a suspicion as to the tithes therefrom being properly taken, opp. וַדַּאי. Y. Maas. Sh. V, end, 56ᵈ [read:] דמאי דְּמַי תיקן דְּמַי לא תיקן D’mai means, There is a talk that he has given the tithes, there is a talk that he has not; Y. Sot. IX, 24ᵇ top ומי לא תיקן (read דְּמַי). Y. Dem. II, 22ᵃ top; Y. Shek. V, 48ᵈ top ארימתון דְּמַיָּין have you set apart what is due of them (the barley) according to the law of D’mai?—Dem. I, 1. Ib. 3 פטור מן הד׳ is exempt from the law of D’mai (no tithes required of them on account of doubt); a. fr.—D’mai, name of a treatise of Mishnah, Tosefta a. Y’rushalmi of the Order of Z’raïm. [Not to be confounded with דְּמַאי = ד־מאי of what.]