غمط

Root entry · 16 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concepts of looking down on, belittling, and despising others or things. It also extends to ingratitude for blessings, denying or suppressing truth, and in a different sense, to being overwhelmed or killed by something, or to persistent rain.

Derived headwords

غمطverb

1.
to belittleboth
To look down upon someone with contempt and disdain, considering them insignificant.
2.
to be ungratefulboth
To fail to appreciate or be thankful for a blessing or well-being.
3.
to denyclassical
To reject or refuse to acknowledge the truth.
4.
to slaughterclassical
To kill or slaughter.

غمط الناس غمطا: احتقرهم واستصغرهم — He belittled and demeaned people.

غمط النعمة والعافية، بالكسر، يغمطها غمطا: لم يشكرها — He was ungrateful for the blessing and well-being, failing to thank God for it.

غمط الحق: جحده — He denied the truth.

غمطه غمطا: ذبحه — He slaughtered him.

غمطاًnoun

1.
belittlingboth
The act of looking down upon or despising someone.
2.
ingratitudeboth
The state of being ungrateful for a blessing.

غمط الناس غمطا: احتقرهم واستصغرهم — He belittled and demeaned people.

غمضهمverb

1.
to belittleboth
To consider someone insignificant or contemptible.

وكذلك غمضهم — And likewise, he belittled them.

الغمطnoun

1.
contemptboth
The feeling of disdain and scorn towards others.
2.
low groundclassical
A low-lying or depressed area of land.

الغمط: الاستهانة والاستحقار — Contempt: belittling and disdain.

الغمط: المطمئن من الأرض كالغمض — Low ground: the depressed part of the earth, like al-ghamḍ.

الغمصnoun

1.
contemptclassical
A feeling of scorn and disdain, similar to al-ghamṭ.

وهو مثل الغمص — And it is like al-ghamas.

عيشهnoun

1.
his lifeboth
Referring to one's livelihood or state of living.

وغمط عيشه وغمطه، بالفتح أيضا، يغمطه غمطا، بالتسكين فيهما: بطره وحقره — And he was arrogant about his livelihood and belittled it, meaning he was insolent and scornful.

اغتمطتهverb

1.
to overcomeclassical
To overpower or gain dominance over someone, especially through speech.

اغتمطته بالكلام واغتططته إذا علوته وقهرته — I overcame him with words and subdued him if I dominated and conquered him.

اغتططتهverb

1.
to overcomeclassical
To overpower or gain dominance over someone, especially through speech.

اغتمطته بالكلام واغتططته إذا علوته وقهرته — I overcame him with words and subdued him if I dominated and conquered him.

تغمطverb

1.
to cover and killclassical
To cover something with dirt or debris until it is killed or suffocated.

تغمط عليه تراب البيت أي غطاه حتى قتله — He covered him with the dust of the house, meaning he buried him until he killed him.

الغمطnoun

1.
drinking heavilyclassical
Drinking a large amount of liquid.

والغمط والمغامطة في الشرب: كالغمج — Al-ghamṭ and al-mughāmaṭah in drinking: like al-ghamj.

المغامطةnoun

1.
drinking heavilyclassical
The act of drinking a large quantity of liquid.

والغمط والمغامطة في الشرب: كالغمج — Al-ghamṭ and al-mughāmaṭah in drinking: like al-ghamj.

يغامطverb

1.
to drink heavilyclassical
To drink a large quantity of liquid.

والفعل يغامط — And the verb is yughāmiṭu.

الإغماطnoun

1.
persistenceclassical
The act of continuing or remaining steadfastly.

والإغماط: الدوام واللزوم — Al-ighmāṭ: persistence and adherence.

أغمطتverb

1.
to be persistentclassical
To be constant or continuous, referring to illness or rain.

وأغمطت عليه الحمى: كأغبطت — And the fever afflicted him persistently: like aghbaṭat.

وأغمطت السماء وأغبطت: دام مطرها — And the sky rained persistently and continuously: its rain lasted.

مغمطةadjective

1.
persistentclassical
Describing an illness that is constant and lasting.

أصابته حمى مغمطة أي لازمة دائمة — He was afflicted with a persistent fever, meaning it was constant and lasting.

سماء غمطىnoun phrase

1.
rainy skyclassical
A sky characterized by continuous and abundant rainfall.

وسماء غمطى: دائمة المطر كغبطى — And a sky ghumaṭā: continuously rainy like ghibṭā.

Parallel reading

غمط الناس: احتقارهم والإزراء بهم وما أشبه ذلك.

To belittle people: to disdain them and scorn them and what is similar to that.

وغمط الناس غمطا: احتقرهم واستصغرهم، وكذلك غمضهم

And to belittle people with ghamṭ: to disdain them and consider them small, and likewise to belittle them.

إنما ذلك من سفه الحق وغمط الناس

That is only from the foolishness of truth and belittling people.

الكبر أن تسفه الحق وتغمط الناس

Arrogance is to consider the truth foolish and to belittle people.

الغمط: الاستهانة والاستحقار، وهو مثل الغمص.

Al-ghamṭ: belittling and disdain, and it is like al-ghamas.

وغمط النعمة والعافية، بالكسر، يغمطها غمطا: لم يشكرها.

And to be ungrateful for a blessing and well-being, with kasra, he is ungrateful for it with ghamṭ: he did not thank it.

وقال بعض الأعراب: اغتمطته بالكلام واغتططته إذا علوته وقهرته.

And some of the Bedouins said: I overcame him with words and subdued him if I dominated and conquered him.

والغمط: المطمئن من الأرض كالغمض.

And al-ghamṭ: the low-lying part of the earth, like al-ghamḍ.

تغمط عليه تراب البيت أي غطاه حتى قتله.

He covered him with the dust of the house, meaning he buried him until he killed him.

والغمط والمغامطة في الشرب: كالغمج، والفعل يغامط؛

And al-ghamṭ and al-mughāmaṭah in drinking: like al-ghamj, and the verb is yughāmiṭu;

والإغماط: الدوام واللزوم.

And al-ighmāṭ: persistence and adherence.

أصابته حمى مغمطة أي لازمة دائمة.

He was afflicted with a persistent fever, meaning it was constant and lasting.

وأغمطت السماء وأغبطت: دام مطرها.

And the sky rained persistently and continuously: its rain lasted.

وسماء غمطى: دائمة المطر كغبطى.

And a sky ghumaṭā: continuously rainy like ghibṭā.