لمء

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns encompassing, covering, and taking possession of something, often stealthily or completely. It also extends to the idea of seeing something quickly, like a glance, and a change in color.

Derived headwords

تَلَمَّأَverb

1.
to be encompassedclassical
The earth encompassed and covered it, making it hidden.
2.
to take stealthilyclassical
To take something stealthily or to hoard it.
3.
to change colorclassical
Its color changed.

تَلَمُّؤًاnoun

1.
encompassingclassical
The act of encompassing and covering.

أَلْمَأَverb

1.
to encompassclassical
To encompass or contain something.
2.
to take stealthilyclassical
The thief took it stealthily.
3.
to denyclassical
To deny something, to reject it.
4.
to be devastatedclassical
It was left devastated and empty.
5.
to goclassical
To go or disappear, with no indication of where.

لَمَأَverb

1.
to encompassclassical
To encompass or contain something.
2.
to take entirelyclassical
To take something completely.
3.
to seeclassical
To see something, similar to a quick glance.

تَمَأَّverb

1.
to take exclusivelyclassical
To take something exclusively for oneself or to overpower it.
2.
to change colorclassical
Its color changed.

لَمْحnoun

1.
quick sightboth
The act of seeing something quickly, a glance.

لَمْءnoun

1.
quick sightclassical
The act of seeing something quickly, a glance.

Parallel reading

تلمأت به الأرض وعليه تلمؤا: اشتملت واستوت ووارته.

The earth encompassed it and covered it, meaning it contained, became level, and hid it.

وللأرض كم من صالح قد تلمأت ... عليه، فوارته بلماعة قفر

And for the earth, how many a righteous person has it encompassed... upon him, and it hid him with a barren, shining expanse.

ويقال: قد ألمأت على الشيء إلماء إذا احتويت عليه.

And it is said: You have encompassed a thing, if you have contained it.

ولمأ به: اشتمل عليه.

And it encompassed it, meaning it contained it.

وألمأ اللص على الشيء: ذهب به خفية.

And the thief took the thing stealthily: he took it away secretly.

وألمأ على حقي: جحده.

And he denied my right: he rejected it.

وذهب ثوبي فما أدري من ألمأ عليه.

And my garment disappeared, and I do not know who took it stealthily.

من ألمأ به، حكاه يعقوب في الجحد، قال: ويتكلم بهذا بغير جحد.

From 'he denied it', Ya'qub narrated it in the context of denial, saying: And this is spoken without denial.

وكان بالأرض مرعى أو زرع، فهاجت به دواب، فألمأته أي تركته صعيدا ليس به شيء.

And there was pasture or crops on the land, and animals stirred it up, and it left it devastated, with nothing on it.

فهاجت به الرياح، فألمأته أي تركته صعيدا.

And the winds stirred it up, and it left it devastated.

وما أدري أين ألمأ من بلاد الله أي ذهب.

And I do not know where he went from the lands of God, meaning he disappeared.

ما يلمأ فمه بكلمة وما يجأى فمه بكلمة، بمعناه.

His mouth does not utter a word, and his mouth does not utter a word, meaning the same.

وما يلمأ فم فلان بكلمة، معناه: أنه لا يستعظم شيئا تكلم به من قبيح.

And so-and-so's mouth does not utter a word, meaning: he does not consider anything he says, however ugly, to be a great matter.

ولمأ الشيء يلمؤه: أخذه بأجمعه.

And he took the thing completely: he took all of it.

وألمأ بما في الجفنة، وتلمأ به، والتمأه: استأثر به وغلب عليه.

And he took exclusively what was in the bowl, and he took it stealthily, and he took it: he appropriated it and overpowered it.

والتمئ لونه: تغير كالتمع.

And its color changed, like a flash.

وحكى بعضهم: التمأ كالتمع.

And some of them narrated: 'It changed' is like 'a flash'.

ولمأ الشيء: أبصره كلمحه.

And he saw the thing: he saw it like a flash.

فلمأتها نورا يضيء له ما حوله كإضاءة البدر.

So I saw it as a light that illuminated what was around it like the illumination of the full moon.

لمأتها أي أبصرتها ولمحتها.

I saw it, meaning I perceived it and glimpsed it.

واللمء واللمح: سرعة إبصار الشيء.

And 'al-lam' and 'al-lamh' mean: the quickness of seeing something.