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لمج

Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

The root لمج primarily relates to eating or tasting in a delicate or preliminary manner, often with the edges of the mouth. It extends to concepts of tasting food, preliminary snacks before a meal, and by extension, sexual intercourse and nursing.

Derived headwords

لَمَجَverb
  1. 1.
    to eat delicatelyboth

    To eat using the edges of the mouth, or with the slightest part of the mouth.

  2. 2.
    to tasteclassical

    To taste food, especially in a preliminary way.

  3. 3.
    to have sexual intercourseclassical

    To have sexual intercourse with a woman.

  4. 4.
    to nurseclassical

    To nurse from the mother (referring to an infant).

لَمْجnoun
  1. 1.
    eating delicatelyboth

    The act of eating with the edges of the mouth.

  2. 2.
    preliminary foodclassical

    Something used to whet the appetite before a meal.

يَلْمَجُverb
  1. 1.
    to eat delicatelyboth

    He eats with the edges of the mouth.

لَمْجًاnoun
  1. 1.
    a delicate eatingboth

    The act of eating with the edges of the mouth.

اللِّمَاجnoun
  1. 1.
    tastingboth

    A taste; a sample of food.

  2. 2.
    appetizerclassical

    Something to whet the appetite before a meal.

لَمِجٌadjective
  1. 1.
    tastingclassical

    One who tastes or samples food.

لَمِيْجٌadjective
  1. 1.
    voracious eaterclassical

    One who eats a lot.

  2. 2.
    promiscuousclassical

    One who has much sexual intercourse.

لامِجٌadjective
  1. 1.
    promiscuousclassical

    One who has much sexual intercourse.

مالِجٌadjective
  1. 1.
    nursing infantclassical

    An infant that is nursing.

تَلَمَّجَverb
  1. 1.
    to tasteboth

    To taste food, similar to 'talammatha' (to lick the lips).

  2. 2.
    to eat delicatelyclassical

    To eat with the edges of the mouth.

لَمْجَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    appetizerboth

    Something to whet the appetite before a meal.

مَلَامِجُnoun
  1. 1.
    featuresclassical

    The features or contours of a person's face.

لَمْجَةِ أُمِّهِphrase
  1. 1.
    nursing his motherclassical

    A euphemism for nursing from his mother, used in a derogatory context.

لَمْجُ المَرْأَةِphrase
  1. 1.
    to have intercourse with the womanclassical

    To have sexual intercourse with a woman.

Parallel reading

الأكل بأطراف الفم.
Eating with the edges of the mouth.
لمج يلمج لمجا: أكل، وقيل: هو الأكل بأدنى الفم
Lamaja yalamju lamjan: to eat, and it is said: it is eating with the slightest part of the mouth.
يلمج البارض لمجا في الندى
He eats the desert plant delicately in the dew.
لا أعرف اللمج إلا في الحمير، قال: وهو مثل اللمس أو فوقه.
I do not know 'al-lamj' except in donkeys, and it is like touching or more than touching.
واللماج: الذواق.
And 'al-limaj': the tasting.
ورجل لمج: ذواق، على النسب.
And a man 'lamij': a taster, by attribution.
وما ذاق لماجا أي ما يؤكل، وقد يصرف في الشراب.
And he did not taste 'lamajan', meaning what is eaten, and it may be used for drink.
وما تلمج عندهم بلماج ولموج ولمجة أي ما أكل.
And he did not taste with them 'limajan', 'lumujin', or 'lamjatan', meaning what was eaten.
وما لمجوا ضيفهم بلماج أي ما أطعموه شيئا.
And they did not give their guest 'limajan', meaning they did not feed him anything.
واللميج: الكثير الأكل.
And 'al-lamij': the one who eats a lot.
واللميج: الكثير الجماع.
And 'al-lamij': the one who has much sexual intercourse.
واللامج: الكثير الجماع.
And 'al-lamij': the one who has much sexual intercourse.
واللمج تناول الحشيش بأدنى الفم.
And 'al-lamj': taking herbs with the edge of the mouth.
التلمج مثل التلمظ.
At-talammج is like at-talammath.
ورأيته يتلمج بالطعام أي يتلمظ.
And I saw him 'yatalammج' with food, meaning he was licking his lips.
وهو أدنى ما يؤكل، أي ما ذقت شيئا
It is the least that is eaten, meaning I did not taste anything.
واللمجة: ما يتعلل به قبل الغذاء.
And 'al-lamjah': what one dallies with before the meal.
وقد لمجته ولهنته، بمعنى واحد.
And I 'lamajtu-hu' and 'lahantuhu', with the same meaning.
ولمج الرجل: علله بشيء قبل الغذاء، وهو مما رد به على أبي عبيد في قوله لمجتهم.
And 'lamaja ar-rajul': he entertained the man with something before the meal, and this is what he used to refute Abu Ubaid in his saying 'lamajtuhum'.
وملامج الإنسان: ملاغمه وما حول فيه؛ قال: رأته شيخا حثر الملامج
And the 'malāmij' of a person: his cheeks and what is around his mouth; he said: She saw him as an old man with worn features.
ولمج أمه وملجها إذا رضعها.
And 'lamaja ummahu' and 'malajaha' if he nursed her.
ولمج المرأة: نكحها.
And 'lamaja al-mar'ah': to have intercourse with her.
ما له لمج أمه؟
What about him nursing his mother?
إنما قلت: ملج أمه، فخلى سبيله.
I only said: 'malaja ummahu', so they released him.
سميج لميج وسمج لمج وسمج لمج، إتباع.
Samij lamij and samij lamj and samij lamj, as an echo.