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شمط

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

أَشْمَطُ ذ A man (S) having the hair of his head grizzled; having whiteness in the hair of his head, mixed with its blackness: (S, K:) [or whose hair is of two different colours, black and white: or having whiteness of the hair, or hoariness, mixed with the blackness of youth: or having whiteness, or hoariness, in his beard: see شَمَطٌ, above:] or whose hair of his head is white in one place, the rest being black: (Mgh:) fem. شَمْطَاآءُ: (Lth, S, Mgh:) one should not apply to a woman the epithet شَيْبَاآءُ: (Lth, Mgh:) pl. شُمْطَانٌ (S, K) and شُمْطٌ. (K.) ― -b2- نَاقَةٌ شَمْطَاآءُ A she-camel having white lips. (TA.) ― -b3- لَحُمٌ أَشْمَطُ [ Flesh-meat marbled with fat ]. (Az, TA in art. كرش.)

Derived headwords

أَشْمَطُ
  1. 1.
نَاقَةٌ شَمْطَاآءُ
لَحُمٌ أَشْمَطُ