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ثوم

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily discusses the plant garlic, its botanical characteristics, and its common names. It also extends to metaphorical uses related to the shape of garlic or its parts, and a less common meaning referring to wheat.

Derived headwords

الثومnoun
  1. 1.
    garlicboth

    A well-known plant, common in Arab lands, with both wild and cultivated varieties.

  2. 2.
    wheatclassical

    An alternative name for wheat, linguistically related to the word 'fawm'.

  3. 3.
    fragrant treeclassical

    A tree with a pleasant scent, larger than myrtle, with broad green leaves, used to scent gatherings.

ثومةnoun
  1. 1.
    garlic bulbboth

    The individual unit or bulb of the garlic plant.

  2. 2.
    pommel of a swordclassical

    The knob or hilt of a sword, likened to the shape of a garlic bulb.

أم ثومةname
  1. 1.
    a womanboth

    A kunya (patronymic or matronymic) referring to a woman.

  2. 2.
    a swordclassical

    Metaphorically, the sword itself, due to the pommel being called 'thuma'.

Parallel reading

الثوم هذه البقلة معروف
Garlic is this well-known plant.
وهي ببلد العرب كثيرة منها بري ومنها ريفي
And it is abundant in Arab lands, some wild and some cultivated.
واحدته ثومة
Its singular unit is a thuma.
والثومة: قبيعة السيف على التشبيه لأنها على شكلها
And the thuma: is the pommel of the sword by way of resemblance because it is in its shape.
والثوم: لغة في الفوم، وهي الحنطة
And al-thawm: is a dialectal form for al-fawm, which is wheat.
فلو أن عندي أم ثومة لم يكن ... علي، لمستن الرياح، طريق
If I had Umm Thuma with me, there would not be... for me, exposed to the winds, a path.
وقد يجوز أن تكون أم ثومة هنا السيف لما تقدم من أن الثومة قبيعة السيف
And it is possible that Umm Thuma here refers to the sword, given what preceded about the thuma being the pommel of the sword.
والثوم: شجر طيب الريح عظام واسع الورق أخضر، أطيب ريحا من الآس
And al-thawm: is a tree with a good scent, large, with broad green leaves, more fragrant than myrtle.
يبسط في المجالس كما يبسط الريحان
It is spread out in gatherings just as basil is spread out.
واحدته ثومة
Its singular unit is a thuma.
هي الخنعبة والنونة والثومة والهزمة والوهدة والقلدة والهرتمة والعرتمة والحثرمة
It is the khun'aba, and the nunah, and the thuma, and the hazamah, and the wahdah, and the qaldah, and the hartamah, and the 'artamah, and the hathramah.