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سرمط

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes something long, tall, or extended. It is applied to camels, people, and even abstract concepts like sparse hair. It also extends to containers for liquids and the act of swallowing.

Derived headwords

السرمطnoun
  1. 1.
    Long camelclassical

    A long-bodied camel.

السرومطnoun
  1. 1.
    Long camelclassical

    A long-bodied camel, or generally something long from the category of camels or other things.

  2. 2.
    Container for wineclassical

    A container, such as a wineskin, that holds wine or similar liquids.

  3. 3.
    Wrapped objectclassical

    Anything wrapped in a covering, such as a wineskin wrapped in a gazelle skin.

سرومطadjective
  1. 1.
    Longclassical

    Describing something as long, particularly a camel.

سرومطnoun
  1. 1.
    Long camelclassical

    A long-bodied camel.

يسترطverb
  1. 1.
    To swallowclassical

    To swallow everything that is wet or liquid.

تسرمطverb
  1. 1.
    To become sparseclassical

    Used to describe hair that has become thin and sparse.

سرامطadjective
  1. 1.
    Tallclassical

    A tall person.

سرمطيطadjective
  1. 1.
    Tallclassical

    A tall person.

السرامطadjective
  1. 1.
    Longclassical

    The long one of everything.

Parallel reading

السرمط والسرومط: الجمل الطويل
Al-sarmat and al-surumt: the long camel.
بكل سام سرمط سرومط
By every lofty, long, long-bodied one.
وقيل: السرومط الطويل من الإبل وغيرها
And it was said: Al-surumt is the tall one of camels and others.
قال ابن سيده: السرومط وعاء يكون فيه زق الخمر ونحوه
Ibn Sidah said: Al-surumt is a container in which there is a wineskin and the like.
ورجل سرومط: يسترط كل شيء يبتلعه
And a man is surumt: he swallows everything he consumes.
ومجتزف جون، كأن خفاءه ... قرى حبشي، بالسرومط، محقب
And a large, black, purchased one, whose wrapping was like... an Abyssinian gift, long, girded.
قال: السرومط هاهنا جمل
He said: Al-surumt here means a camel.
وقيل: هو جلد ظبية لف فيه زق خمر
And it was said: It is a gazelle skin in which a wineskin was wrapped.
وكل خفاء لف فيه شيء، فهو سرومط له
And every wrapping in which something is rolled up, it is surumt for it.
وتسرمط الشعر: قل وخف
And hair تسرمط: became sparse and thin.
ورجل سرامط وسرمطيط: طويل
And a man سرامط and سرمطيط: tall.
والسرامط: الطويل من كل شيء
And al-saramit: the long one of everything.