دمث

Root entry · 24 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes qualities of softness, gentleness, and ease, particularly in relation to the ground and disposition. It encompasses concepts of yielding, being smooth, and having a pleasant, unharsh nature.

Derived headwords

دَمُثَverb

1.
to be soft and easyboth
To be soft, yielding, and easy, particularly referring to the ground or a person's disposition.
2.
to be level and smoothboth
To be level, smooth, and easy to traverse, often used for terrain.

دَمَاثَةnoun

1.
gentleness of dispositionboth
The quality of being gentle, easy-going, and pleasant in character.
2.
softness of groundboth
The characteristic of the ground being soft, yielding, and easy to walk on.

أَدْمَثَverb

1.
to make soft and easyboth
To make something soft, easy, or gentle, often referring to making a place easier to traverse or a person more agreeable.

دَمِثٌadjective

1.
soft and yieldingboth
Describing something that is soft, yielding, and easy to the touch or to walk upon, like soft ground or sand.
2.
gentle and easy-goingboth
Describing a person who is gentle, mild-mannered, and easy to deal with.

مَكَانٌ دَمِثٌnoun

1.
soft and smooth placeboth
A place that is soft, smooth, and easy to tread upon, often referring to ground with fine sand.

رَمْلَةٌ دَمِثٌnoun

1.
soft sandboth
Sand that is soft, fine, and easy to walk on, not compacted.

رَجُلٌ دَمِثٌnoun

1.
gentle manboth
A man characterized by gentleness, ease of manner, and a pleasant disposition.

دَمَاثَةٌnoun

1.
gentle dispositionboth
The quality of having a gentle, mild, and agreeable nature.

دُمُوثَةٌnoun

1.
gentlenessclassical
A state or quality of being gentle and mild.

الدَّمَثُnoun

1.
level groundboth
The flat, smooth, and easy parts of the earth.

أَدْمَاثٌnoun

1.
level groundsboth
Plural of 'damth', referring to flat, smooth, and easy terrains.

دِمَاثٌnoun

1.
level groundsboth
Plural of 'damth', referring to flat, smooth, and easy terrains.

دَمِثَتْverb

1.
to be level and smoothboth
Past tense verb indicating that the ground or terrain became level, smooth, and easy.

الدَّمَاثُnoun

1.
level groundboth
Referring to the smooth, easy parts of the earth, including plains and soft sandy areas.

دَمِيثَةٌnoun

1.
soft and yielding areaboth
A single instance of soft, smooth, and easy ground or terrain.
2.
gentle and noble personboth
A term used to describe a person who is easy-going, pleasant, and noble in character, likened to the best parts of the earth.

الدَّمَائِثُnoun

1.
soft and yielding placesboth
Plural of 'damitha', referring to areas of land that are soft, smooth, and easy.

دَمِيثٌadjective

1.
gentle and nobleboth
Describing someone who is gentle, easy-going, kind, and noble in character.

دَمِيثَةٌadjective

1.
gentle and noble (fem.)both
Feminine form describing a woman who is gentle, easy-going, kind, and noble in character.

دَمِثَverb

1.
to make smoothboth
To make something smooth, soft, or easy, often used in the context of preparing a place or making it comfortable.

تَدْمِيثُnoun

1.
softeningboth
The act of making something soft, smooth, or easy, such as softening a bed or making a place comfortable.
2.
preparing a placeboth
The act of making a place ready or comfortable, especially for resting or sleeping.

يُدَمِّثُverb

1.
to prepare a placeboth
To make a place ready, comfortable, or easy to occupy, often metaphorically.

دَمَّثَverb

1.
to make smooth and easyboth
To make something smooth, soft, and easy, often used metaphorically for preparing a place or making it comfortable.

دَمَثَverb

1.
to make smoothclassical
To make something smooth, soft, or easy.

الأَدْمُوثُnoun

1.
place for baking flatbreadclassical
A place where flatbread is baked, likely referring to a smooth, heated surface.

Parallel reading

دَمُثَ دَمَاثَةً، فَهُوَ دَمِثٌ: لَانَ وَسَهُلَ.

It was soft and easy, so it is soft and easy: it became soft and easy.

وَالدَّمَاثَةُ: سُهُولَةُ الخُلُقِ.

And gentleness is the ease of disposition.

يُقَالُ: مَا أَدْمَثَ فُلَانًا وَأَلْيَنَهُ!

It is said: How gentle and soft is so-and-so!

وَمَكَانٌ دَمِثٌ وَدَمِثٌ: لَيِّنُ المَوْطِئِ؛

And a place is soft and easy: soft to tread upon;

وَرَمْلَةٌ دَمِثٌ، كَأَنَّهَا سُمِّيَتْ بِالمَصْدَرِ؛

And soft sand, as if it were named after the source noun;

قَالَ أَبُو قِلَابَةَ: خَوْدٌ ثِقَالٌ، فِي القِيَامِ، كَرَمْلَةٍ ... دَمِثٍ، يُضِيءُ لَهَا الظَّلَامُ الحُنْدَسُ

Abu Qilabah said: A heavy-hipped young woman, when standing, is like soft sand... which the deep darkness illuminates for her.

وَرِجْلٌ دَمِثٌ بَيْنَ الدَّمَاثَةِ وَالدُّمُوثَةِ: وَطِيءُ الخُلُقِ.

And a man is gentle between gentleness and mildness: easy in disposition.

وَالدَّمِثُ: السُّهُولُ مِنَ الأَرْضِ، وَالجَمْعُ أَدْمَاثٌ وَدِمَاثٌ؛

And 'al-damth' refers to the level parts of the earth, and the plural is 'admath' and 'dimath';

وَقَدْ دَمِثَ، بِالكَسْرِ، يَدْمِثُ دَمَاثَةً.

And it became level, with kasra, it becomes level, with gentleness.

التَّهْذِيبُ: الدَّمَاثُ السُّهُولُ مِنَ الأَرْضِ، الوَاحِدَةُ دَمِثَةٌ، وَكُلُّ سَهْلٍ دَمِثٌ،

Al-Tahdhib: 'Al-damath' refers to the level parts of the earth, the singular is 'damitha', and every level place is 'damith',

وَالوَادِي الدَّمِثُ: السَّائِلُ، وَيَكُونُ الدَّمَاثُ فِي الرِّمَالِ وَغَيْرِ الرِّمَالِ.

And the flowing valley is 'al-damith', and 'al-damath' can be in sands and other than sands.

وَالدَّمَائِثُ: مَا سَهُلَ وَلَانَ، أَحَدُهَا دُمَيْثَةٌ؛

And 'al-dama'ith' refers to what is easy and soft, one of them is 'dumaytha';

وَمِنْهُ قِيلَ لِلرَّجُلِ السَّهْلِ الطَّلْقِ الكَرِيمِ: دُمَيْثٌ.

And from this, the easy-going, cheerful, generous man is called: 'dumayth'.

وَفِي صِفَتِهِ، صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: دَمِثٌ لَيْسَ بِالجَافِي ؛

And in his description, peace be upon him: gentle, not harsh;

أَرَادَ أَنَّهُ كَانَ لَيِّنَ الخُلُقِ فِي سُهُولَةٍ، وَأَصْلُهُ مِنَ الدَّمِثِ، وَهِيَ الأَرْضُ اللَّيِّنَةُ السَّهْلَةُ الرَّخْوَةُ، وَالرَّمْلُ الَّذِي لَيْسَ بِمُتَلَبِّدٍ.

He meant that he was gentle in disposition with ease, and its origin is from 'al-damith', which is the soft, easy, yielding land, and sand that is not compacted.

وَفِي حَدِيثِ الحَجَّاجِ فِي صِفَةِ الغَيْثِ: فَلَبَّدَتِ الدَّمَاثَ أَيْ صَيَّرَتْهَا لَا تَسُوخُ فِيهَا الأَرْجُلُ، وَهِيَ جَمْعُ دَمِثٍ.

And in the description of rain by Al-Hajjaj: 'it compacted the soft ground', meaning it made it such that feet do not sink into it, and it is the plural of 'damith'.

وَامْرَأَةٌ دُمَيْثَةٌ: شُبِّهَتْ بِدَمَاثِ الأَرْضِ، لِأَنَّهَا أَكْرَمُ الأَرْضِ.

And a woman is 'dumaytha': she is likened to the soft ground, because it is the noblest of the earth.

وَيُقَالُ: دَمَّثْتُ لَهُ المَكَانَ أَيْ سَهَّلْتُهُ لَهُ.

And it is said: I made the place easy for him, meaning I facilitated it for him.

الجَوْهَرِيُّ: الدَّمِثُ المَكَانُ اللَّيِّنُ ذُو رَمْلٍ.

Al-Jawahiri: 'Al-damith' is the soft place with sand.

وَفِي الحَدِيثِ: أَنَّهُ مَالَ إِلَى دَمِثٍ مِنَ الأَرْضِ، فَبَالَ فِيهِ ، وَإِنَّمَا فَعَلَ ذَلِكَ لِئَلَّا يَرْتَدَّ إِلَيْهِ رَشَاشُ البَوْلِ.

And in the Hadith: He leaned towards a soft patch of ground and urinated in it, and he only did that so that the splash of urine would not return to him.

وَفِي حَدِيثِ ابْنِ مَسْعُودٍ: إِذَا قَرَأْتَ آلَ حِمٍ، وَقَعْتَ فِي رَوْضَاتٍ دَمِثَاتٍ ، جَمْعُ دَمِثَةٍ.

And in the narration of Ibn Mas'ud: When you recite 'Ha Mim', you will fall into soft meadows, the plural of 'damitha'.

وَدَمَثَ الشَّيْءَ إِذَا مَرَسَهُ حَتَّى يَلِينَ.

And he softened the thing if he kneaded it until it became soft.

وَتَدْمِيثُ المَضْجَعِ: تَلْيِينُهُ.

And softening the place of rest: making it soft.

وَفِي الحَدِيثِ: مَنْ كَذَبَ عَلَيَّ، فَإِنَّمَا يُدَمِّثُ مَجْلِسَهُ مِنَ النَّارِ أَيْ يُمَهِّدُ وَيُوَطِّئُ؛

And in the Hadith: Whoever lies about me, he is only making his seat in Hell easy, meaning he is preparing and smoothing it;

وَمَثَلٌ لِلعَرَبِ: دَمِّثْ لِجَنْبِكَ، قَبْلَ اللَّيْلِ، مَضْطَجَعًا أَيْ خُذْ أُهْبَتَهُ، وَاسْتَعِدَّ لَهُ، وَتَقَدَّمْ فِيهِ قَبْلَ وُقُوعِهِ.

And an Arab proverb: Prepare your resting place before nightfall, meaning take its provisions, get ready for it, and proceed with it before it happens.

وَيُقَالُ: دَمِّثْ لِي ذَلِكَ الحَدِيثَ حَتَّى أَطْعَنَ فِي حَوْصِهِ؛ أَيْ اذْكُرْ لِي أَوَّلَهُ، حَتَّى أَعْرِفَ وَجْهَهُ.

And it is said: Explain that story to me so I can delve into its details; meaning mention its beginning to me, so I can understand its aspect.

وَالأَدْمُوثُ: مَكَانُ المَلَّةِ إِذَا خُبِزَتْ.

And 'al-admooth': the place of the 'malla' (a type of bread) when it is baked.