بلم

Root entry · 31 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to swelling, particularly of lips or animal reproductive organs, and also encompasses terms for plant parts like palm fronds and cotton, as well as a specific type of plant and a disease affecting camels.

Derived headwords

البلمةnoun

1.
Shrub of thorny treesclassical
A type of shrub belonging to thorny trees, as narrated by Abu Hanifa.

البيلمnoun

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Cottonboth
Refers to cotton, or specifically the cotton of reeds, or what is inside a reed, or the cotton of papyrus, or cotton seeds.

بيلميadjective

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Whiteclassical
Describing a sword as white.

الإبلمnoun

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Palm frondboth
Refers to the frond of a palm tree, specifically the leaf stalk.

الأبلمnoun

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Palm frondboth
Refers to the frond of a palm tree, specifically the leaf stalk.

الأبلمةnoun

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Palm frondboth
Refers to the frond of a palm tree, specifically the leaf stalk.
2.
Midrib of a palm frondclassical
Specifically the midrib of the 'aqal palm frond, which is split lengthwise for equality.

الإبلمةnoun

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Palm frondboth
Refers to the frond of a palm tree, specifically the leaf stalk.

الأبلمةnoun

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Palm frondboth
Refers to the frond of a palm tree, specifically the leaf stalk.

مبلمadjective

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Surrounded by palm frondsclassical
Describing a palm tree that has fronds around it.

الأبلمnoun

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A type of herbclassical
A herb that grows with pods like peas, without a root, and has spreading leaves resembling carrot leaves, as narrated by Abu Hanifa.

البلمnoun

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Disease of the wombclassical
A disease that affects a female camel's womb, causing it to narrow.

البلمةnoun

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Disease of the wombclassical
A disease that affects a female camel's womb, causing it to narrow.
2.
Swelling of the vulvaclassical
A swelling of the vulva due to intense heat or mating drive in a female camel.

أبلمتverb

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To be afflicted with a womb diseaseclassical
The female camel was afflicted with a disease affecting its womb.
2.
To have swollen lipsclassical
The lips became swollen.

الضبعةnoun

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Heat/mating drive in a female camelclassical
The state of a female camel being in heat or having a strong mating drive.

المبلمadjective

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Female camel not vocalizingclassical
A female camel that does not vocalize due to intense heat or mating drive.

المبلامadjective

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Female camel not vocalizingclassical
A female camel that does not vocalize due to intense heat or mating drive.

مبلمadjective

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Female camel not vocalizingclassical
A female camel that does not vocalize due to intense heat or mating drive.

البكرةnoun

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Young female camelclassical
A young female camel that has not yet been mated or given birth.

الإبلامnoun

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Swelling of the vulvaclassical
The condition of a young female camel's vulva swelling when it is in heat, especially if unmated.

أبلمتverb

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To have swollen lipsclassical
The lips became swollen.

البلمةnoun

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Swelling of the lipsclassical
The condition of the lips being swollen.

أبلمadjective

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Thick-lippedboth
Describing a person or animal with thick lips.

أبلمverb

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To have swollen lipsclassical
The lips became swollen.

مبلمتينadjective

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Swollen (lips)classical
Describing lips that have become swollen.

التبليمnoun

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Making uglyclassical
The act of making something ugly or disfiguring it.

أبلم عليه أمرهverb

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To spoil his affairclassical
To make someone's affair ugly or to spoil it, derived from the swelling of a camel's vulva.

أبلمةnoun

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Movementclassical
A movement or stirring, as in 'I did not hear any movement from him'.

بيلمانياadjective

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Large and bloatedclassical
Describing someone as large and bloated, possibly referring to the Antichrist.

البلماءnoun

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Full moon nightclassical
The night of the full moon, due to the moon being complete and large.

الإبليمnoun

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Ambergrisclassical
A substance, likely ambergris, used as a perfume.
2.
Honeyclassical
A type of honey.

بيلم النجارother

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A type of woodclassical
A term used by carpenters, possibly a variant of 'biram'.

Parallel reading

والبيلم: القطن، وقيل: قطن القصب، وقيل: الذي في جوف القصبة، وقيل: قطن البردي، وقيل: جوز القطن.

And al-baylam: cotton, and it is said: the cotton of reeds, and it is said: that which is in the hollow of the reed, and it is said: the cotton of papyrus, and it is said: cotton seeds.

وسيف بيلمي: أبيض.

And a baylami sword: white.

والإبلم والأبلم والأبلم والإبلمة والأبلمة، كل ذلك: الخوصة.

And al-iblim, al-ablam, al-ablam, al-iblama, and al-ablama, all of that: the palm frond.

يقال: المال بيننا والأمر بيننا شق الإبلمة، وبعضهم يقول: شق الأبلمة، وهي الخوصة، وذلك لأنها تؤخذ فتشق طولا على السواء.

It is said: the wealth between us and the matter between us is like splitting a palm frond, and some say: splitting an ablamma, which is the frond, and that is because it is taken and split lengthwise equally.

وفي حديث السقيفة: الأمر بيننا وبينكم كقد الأبلمة ؛ الأبلمة، بضم الهمزة واللام وفتحهما وكسرهما، أي خوصة المقل، وهمزتها زائدة، يقول: نحن وإياكم في الحكم سواء لا فضل لأمير على مأمور كالخوصة إذا شقت باثنتين متساويتين.

And in the Hadith of the Saqifah: The matter between us and you is like the measure of an ablamma; al-ablamma, with damma on the hamza and lam, and their fath and kasr, meaning the frond of the 'aqal palm, and its hamza is extra, it says: we and you are equal in judgment, no leader has an advantage over a subordinate like a frond when it is split into two equal parts.

الجوهري: الأبلم خوص المقل، وفيه ثلاث لغات: أبلم وأبلم وإبلم، والواحدة بالهاء.

Al-Jawhari: Al-ablam are the fronds of the 'aqal palm, and it has three pronunciations: ablam, ablam, and iblim, and the singular is with ha'.

ونخل مبلم: حوله الأبلم؛ قال: خود تريك الجسد المنعما، ... كما رأيت الكثر المبلما

And a muballam palm tree: surrounded by ablam; he said: A graceful one shows you the pampered body, ... as you saw the abundant muballam.

قال أبو زياد: الأبلم، بالفتح، بقلة تخرج لها قرون كالباقلى وليس لها أرومة، ولها وريقة منتشرة الأطراف كأنها ورق الجزر؛ حكى ذلك أبو حنيفة.

Abu Ziyad said: Al-ablam, with fath, is a herb that produces pods like peas and has no root, and it has spreading leaves as if they were carrot leaves; Abu Hanifa narrated this.

والبلم والبلمة: داء يأخذ الناقة في رحمها فتضيق لذلك، وأبلمت: أخذها ذلك.

And al-balam and al-balama: a disease that affects a she-camel in her womb, causing it to narrow, and ablmat: it was afflicted by that.

والبلمة: الضبعة، وقيل: هي ورم الحياء من شدة الضبعة.

And al-balama: the heat (of a she-camel), and it is said: it is a swelling of the vulva from the intensity of the heat.

الأصمعي: إذا ورم حياء الناقة من الضبعة قيل: قد أبلمت، ويقال بها بلمة شديدة.

Al-Asma'i: If the she-camel's vulva swells from the heat, it is said: she has become ablamat, and it is said she has a severe balama.

والمبلم والمبلام: الناقة التي لا ترغو من شدة الضبعة، وخص ثعلب به البكرة من الإبل؛ قال أبو الهيثم: إنما تبلم البكرات خاصة دون غيرها؛ قال نصير: البكرة التي لم يضربها الفحل قط فإنها إذا ضبعت أبلمت فيقال هي مبلم، بغير هاء، وذلك أن يرم حياؤها عند ذلك، ولا تبلم إلا بكرة، قال أبو منصور: وكذلك قال أبو زيد: المبلم البكرة التي لم تنتج قط ولم يضربها فحل، فذلك الإبلام، وإذا ضربها الفحل ثم نتجوها فإنها تضبع ولا تبلم.

And al-muballam and al-muballam: the she-camel that does not vocalize from the intensity of the heat, and Tha'lab specified it for the young she-camel among camels; Abu Al-Haytham said: only young she-camels become muballam, not others; Naseer said: a young she-camel that has never been mated by a stallion, if she is in heat, she becomes ablamat, and it is said she is muballam, without ha', and that is because her vulva swells at that time, and only a young she-camel becomes ablamat, Abu Mansur said: Likewise, Abu Zayd said: Al-muballam is the young she-camel that has never given birth and has not been mated by a stallion, that is al-iblam, and if the stallion mates her and then she gives birth, she will be in heat but will not become ablamat.

الجوهري: أبلمت الناقة إذا ورم حياؤها من شدة الضبعة، وقيل: لا تبلم إلا البكرة ما لم تنتج.

Al-Jawhari: A she-camel becomes ablamat if her vulva swells from the intensity of the heat, and it is said: only a young she-camel becomes ablamat as long as she has not given birth.

وأبلمت شفته: ورمت، والاسم البلمة.

And his lip became ablamat: it swelled, and the noun is al-balama.

ورجل أبلم أي غليظ الشفتين، وكذلك بعير أبلم وأبلم الرجل إذا ورمت شفتاه.

And a man is ablam, meaning thick-lipped, and likewise a camel is ablam, and a man becomes ablam if his lips swell.

ورأيت شفتيه مبلمتين إذا ورمتا.

And I saw his lips muballamatayn if they swelled.

والتبليم: التقبيح. يقال: لا تبلم عليه أمره أي لا تقبح أمره، مأخوذ من أبلمت الناقة إذا ورم حياؤها من الضبعة.

And al-tablim: making ugly. It is said: do not tablim his affair, meaning do not make his affair ugly, derived from a she-camel becoming ablamat when her vulva swells from the heat.

ابن بري: قال أبو عمرو يقال ما سمعت له أبلمة أي حركة؛ وأنشد:

Ibn al-Bari: Abu Amr said it is said 'I did not hear any ablama from him', meaning movement; and he recited:

فما سمعت، بعد تلك النأمه، ... منها ولا منه هناك أبلمه

So I did not hear, after that stir, ... from her nor from him there any ablama.

وفي حديث الدجال: رأيته بيلمانيا أقمر هجانا أي ضخم منتفخ، ويروى بالفاء.

And in the Hadith of the Antichrist: I saw him baylamaniyan, large and bloated, meaning huge and swollen, and it is narrated with fa'.

والبلماء: ليلة البدر لعظم القمر فيها لأنه يكون تاما.

And al-balma': the night of the full moon due to the moon's size in it because it is complete.

التهذيب: أبو الهذيل الإبليم العنبر؛ وأنشد:

Al-Tahdhib: Abu Al-Hudhayl said al-iblim is ambergris; and he recited:

وحرة غير متفال لهوت بها، ... لو كان يخلد ذو نعمى لتنعيم كأن، فوق حشاياها ومحبسها، ... صوائر المسك مكبولا بإبليم أي بالعنبر؛ قال الأزهري وقال غيره: الإبليم العسل، قال: ولا أحفظه لإمام ثقة، وبيلم النجار: لغة في البيرم.

And a free woman, not to be pitied, I amused myself with her, ... if the fortunate one were to live forever in bliss, as if, upon her insides and her confinement, ... musk-like streams bound with iblim, meaning ambergris; Al-Azhari said and others said: Al-iblim is honey, he said: and I do not memorize it from a trustworthy Imam, and baylam al-najjar: a dialect for biram.