زمح

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes negative attributes of people, including weakness, shortness, ugliness, meanness, and ill-temper. It also refers to a specific type of bird with ominous connotations and a tool used for hunting birds.

Derived headwords

زَمْحadjective

1.
weakclassical
Describing a man as weak.
2.
short and uglyclassical
Describing a man as short, ugly, and ill-favored.
3.
meanclassical
Describing a man as mean or base.

زَمْحnoun

1.
ugly, wicked manclassical
A man who is black, ugly, and wicked.

زُومَحadjective

1.
ugly, wicked manclassical
A man who is black, ugly, and wicked.

زَمْحَنadjective

1.
ill-temperedclassical
Describing someone as having a bad disposition or character.

زَمْحَنَةadjective

1.
ill-temperedclassical
Describing someone as having a bad disposition or character.

زَامِحnoun

1.
boilclassical
A boil or abscess, used as a proper noun like 'Kahl' or 'Gharib'.

زَمَاحnoun

1.
bird-hunting toolclassical
Mud placed on the head of a stick used to throw at birds.
2.
ominous birdclassical
A bird that used to perch in Medina during the Jahiliyyah, associated with misfortune.
3.
bird that takes babiesclassical
A bird that the Bedouins believed snatched babies from their cradles.

زَمَحَverb

1.
to kill the Zamah birdclassical
To kill the bird known as 'Zamah', which was believed to take children.

Parallel reading

الزمح من الرجال: الضعيف

The 'zamah' of men: the weak.

وقيل: القصير الدميم

And it was said: the short and ugly.

وقيل: اللئيم

And it was said: the mean.

والزمح والزومح من الرجال: الأسود القبيح الشرير

And the 'zamah' and 'zumah' of men: the black, ugly, and wicked.

ولم تك شهدارة الأبعدين، ... ولا زمح الأقربين الشريرا

And they were not like the 'shahdarah' of the distant ones, ... nor like the 'zamah' of the near ones, the wicked.

وقيل: الزمح القصير السمج الخلقة السيء الأدم المشؤوم

And it was said: the 'zamah' is short, ill-formed, ugly in complexion, and ill-fated.

والزمحن والزمحنة: السيء الخلق

And the 'zamhan' and 'zamhanah': ill-tempered.

والزامح: الدمل، اسم كالكاهل والغارب، لأنا لم نجد له فعلا

And 'zamih': the boil, a name like 'kahil' and 'gharib', as we did not find a verb for it.

والزماح: طين يجعل على رأس خشبة يرمى بها الطير

And 'zumah': mud placed on the head of a stick with which birds are thrown at.

وأنكرها بعضهم وقال: إنما هو الجماح

Some denied it and said: it is only 'jumah'.

والزماح: طائر كان يقف بالمدينة في الجاهلية على أطم فيقول شيئا

And 'zumah': a bird that used to perch in Medina during the Jahiliyyah on a mound and say something.

وقيل: كان يسقط في بعض مرابد المدينة فيأكل تمره، فرموه فقتلوه فلم يأكل أحد من لحمه إلا مات

And it was said: it used to fall into some of Medina's date stores and eat its dates. So they threw at it and killed it. No one ate of its flesh except he died.

أعلى العهد أصبحت أم عمرو، ... ليت شعري أم غالها الزماح؟

Has Umm Amr's covenant been fulfilled? ... I wish I knew, or has 'zumah' led her astray?

الأزهري: الزماح طائر كانت الأعراب تقول إنه يأخذ الصبي من مهده

Al-Azhari: 'Zumah' is a bird that the Bedouins used to say snatched the child from its cradle.

زمح الرجل إذا قتل الزماح، وهو هذا الطائر الذي يأخذ الصبي

A man 'zamah' if he killed the 'zumah', which is this bird that takes the child.