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قرمد

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to coating, plastering, or coloring surfaces, often with specific materials like gypsum or saffron. It also extends to baked clay bricks (like terracotta or tiles) and, metaphorically, to tightness or constriction, particularly in describing women's attire or physical attributes.

Derived headwords

القِرْمَدnoun
  1. 1.
    Coating materialboth

    Anything used for coating or plastering a surface.

  2. 2.
    Terracotta/baked brickboth

    A type of baked clay brick, often reddish, used in construction.

  3. 3.
    Stones for firingclassical

    Stones with holes used for firing, which are then used in construction.

  4. 4.
    Rocksclassical

    Large stones or boulders.

مُقَرْمَدadjective
  1. 1.
    Coated/plasteredboth

    Having been coated or plastered, especially with saffron or perfume.

  2. 2.
    Tight/constrictedclassical

    Describing something as narrow, tight, or constricted, often referring to the thighs or lower garments of women.

  3. 3.
    Elevated/prominentclassical

    Describing something as elevated or prominent.

رابي المجسة بالعبير مقرمد — The scent-bearer, perfumed and coated.
مليسة القدمين مقرمدة الرفغين — Smooth of feet, tight in the thighs.
قَرْمَدَverb
  1. 1.
    To coat/plasterboth

    To apply a coating or plaster to a surface, often for decoration or protection.

  2. 2.
    To build with bricksboth

    To construct something using baked bricks or tiles.

وقرمد البناء. — And the building was constructed with bricks.
القِرْمِيدnoun
  1. 1.
    Terracotta tileboth

    A baked clay tile, commonly used for roofing or in construction.

  2. 2.
    Bathhouse brickclassical

    A type of brick used in bathhouses, particularly in the Levant.

القَرْمُودnoun
  1. 1.
    Male wild goatclassical

    The male of wild goats.

  2. 2.
    Fruit of thorny treesclassical

    A type of fruit from thorny trees like the 'Adhā or Ghada.

القَرَامِيدnoun
  1. 1.
    Terracotta tilesboth

    Plural of Qirmid, referring to baked clay tiles.

  2. 2.
    House bricks/tilesclassical

    The bricks or tiles of a house.

  3. 3.
    Young wild goatsclassical

    The young of wild goats.

ينفي القراميد عنها الأعصم الوعل — The sure-footed wild goat drives the young ones away from it.
القُرْمُوطnoun
  1. 1.
    Fruit of thorny treesclassical

    A type of fruit from thorny trees like the Ghada.

مُقَرْمَدَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Tightnessclassical

    The state of being tight or constricted, referring to the thighs.

القُرْمَدَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Coating/Plasteringclassical

    The act or process of coating or plastering.

قِرْمِيدَىother
  1. 1.
    Tile (foreign word)classical

    A foreign (likely Greek) term for tile.

قَرْمَطَverb
  1. 1.
    To bind tightlyclassical

    To bind or tie something tightly; a variant of 'qarmata'.

Parallel reading

كل ما طلي به
Everything that is coated with.
للزينة كالجص والزعفران
For adornment, like gypsum and saffron.
وثوب مقرمد بالزعفران والطيب أي مطلي
And a garment coated with saffron and perfume, meaning plastered.
رابي المجسة بالعبير مقرمد
The scent-bearer, perfumed and coated.
مليسة القدمين مقرمدة الرفغين
Smooth of feet, tight in the thighs.
المقرمدة المجتمع قصبها
The one whose bones are gathered together (tight).
المقرمده الرفغين الضيقتهما وذلك لالتفاف فخذيها واكتناز باديها
The tightness of the thighs, meaning their narrowness, due to the wrapping of her thighs and the plumpness of her forelegs.
إنه الضيق
It means tightness.
المطلي كما يطلى الحوض بالقرمد
Coated, as a basin is coated with qarmad.
رفغا المرأة: أصول فخذيها
The 'rafghan' of a woman: the roots of her thighs.
القرمد: الآجر
Al-qarmad: baked brick.
القرمد والقرميد حجارة لها خروق يوقد عليها حتى إذا نضجت بني بها
Al-qarmad and al-qirmid are stones with holes, over which fire is kindled until they are baked and then built with.
وقد قرمد البناء
And the building was constructed with bricks.
القرمد حجارة لها نخاريب، وهي خروق يوقد عليها حتى إذا نضجت قرمدت بها الحياض والبرك أي طليت
Al-qarmad are stones with holes, which are openings over which fire is kindled until they are baked; they were used to coat basins and ponds, meaning plastered.
المقرمَد المطلي بالزعفران
The coated one, plastered with saffron.
المقرمَد المضيق
The constricted one.
المقرمَد المشرف
The elevated one.
حوض مقرمد إذا كان ضيقا
A coated basin if it is narrow.
أي ضيق بالمسك
Meaning narrow with musk.
بناء مقرمد: مبني بالآجر أو الحجارة
A qarmad-built structure: built with bricks or stones.
القراميد في كلام أهل الشام آجر الحمامات
Al-qaramid in the speech of the people of Sham are bathhouse bricks.
لطوابيق الدار القراميد، واحدها قرميد
The bricks of the house are called al-qaramid, the singular of which is qirmid.
القرمد: الصخور
Al-qarmad: rocks.
القرمد خزف يطبخ
Al-qarmad is pottery that is baked.
وأراد تذواب طبخ الآجر
And he intended the melting of baked bricks.
والقرميد: الآجر، والجمع القراميد
And al-qirmid: baked brick, and the plural is al-qaramid.
وقرموط وقرمود ثمر الغضا
And qarmut and qarmud are fruits of the Ghada tree.