قمز

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to smallness, inferiority, and gathering or collecting. It describes things that are small, insignificant, or of poor quality, as well as the act of gathering with one's hand or the resulting collection.

Derived headwords

القَمْزnoun

1.
Inferiority, smallnessclassical
Refers to small, inferior, and worthless possessions or things that have no good in them, akin to being stunted.
2.
Scattered growthclassical
Describes vegetation that grows sparsely and intermittently, appearing in patches here and there.

قَمَزَverb

1.
To gather with handboth
To collect or gather something with one's hand.

قَمْزَةnoun

1.
A gathering (handful)both
The act of gathering something with the hand, or a small collection gathered by hand.
2.
Tip of fingersclassical
To grasp or take something using the tips of one's fingers.
3.
Plant budboth
The bud of a plant from which a seed develops.
4.
Date clusterboth
A cluster or mass of dates.
5.
Small pileboth
A small heap or mound of pebbles or dust.

قَمَزَverb

1.
To be stuntedclassical
To be small and stunted in growth, lacking stature.

قَمِيزadjective

1.
Stunted, smallclassical
Describing something as small, stunted, or of inferior quality.

قُمَزٌnoun

1.
Small pilesclassical
Plural of قمزة, referring to small heaps or mounds of pebbles or dust.

Parallel reading

صغار المال ورديئه ورذاله الذي لا خير فيه كالقزم

Small possessions, their inferior and worthless ones, which have no good in them, like the stunted.

أخذت بكرا نقزا من النقز

I took a young she-camel, a choice one, from the best.

وناب سوء قمزا من القمز

And a bad molar, of the inferior kind.

رأيت الكلأ في جؤجؤى قمزا قمزا

I saw the herbage on the breast of the ground growing sparsely and intermittently.

أراد أنه لم يتصل ولكنه نبت متفرقا لمعة هاهنا ولمعة هاهنا

He meant that it was not continuous but grew scattered, a patch here and a patch there.

قمز الشيء يقمزه قمزا: جمعه بيده

Qamaz the thing, yaqmuzuhu qumanzan: he gathered it with his hand.

وهي القمزة

And it is the qumzah.

وقيل: قمز قمزة أخذ بأطراف أصابعه

And it was said: he qamaz a qumzah, meaning he took it with the tips of his fingers.

والقمزة: برعوم النبت الذي تكون فيه الحبة

And the qumzah: the bud of the plant in which the seed is.

والقمزة، بالضم، مثل الجمزة: وهي كتلة من التمر

And the qumzah, with dammah, like al-jumzah: it is a mass of dates.

والقمزة من الحصى والتراب: الصوة، وجمعها قمز

And the qumzah of pebbles and dust: the small heap, and its plural is qumaz.