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جرثم

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of gathering, accumulating, or forming a base or origin. It extends to physical accumulations like soil around plants or ant hills, and metaphorically to groups of people or abstract origins.

Derived headwords

الجَرثُومَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Origin, rootboth

    The fundamental origin or source of something.

  2. 2.
    Accumulation of soilclassical

    Soil that gathers around the base of trees or plants.

  3. 3.
    Ant hillboth

    The settlement or mound built by ants.

  4. 4.
    Raised areaclassical

    A raised or elevated place on the ground, formed by accumulated earth or mud.

  5. 5.
    Throatclassical

    The gullet or throat.

اجْرِنْثامnoun
  1. 1.
    Gathering, stayingclassical

    The act of gathering together and remaining in a place.

اجْرَنَثَمَverb
  1. 1.
    To gather and stayclassical

    To gather together and adhere to a place.

  2. 2.
    To fallclassical

    To fall from a high place to a low place.

مُجْرَنْثِمadjective
  1. 1.
    Gathered, clusteredclassical

    Gathered together closely and compactly.

تَجَرَّثَمَverb
  1. 1.
    To gatherclassical

    To gather or assemble.

  2. 2.
    To fallclassical

    To fall from a high place to a low place.

  3. 3.
    To take the majorityclassical

    To take the largest part or the majority of something.

الجَرثَمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    The gulletclassical

    The gullet or throat.

جَرَاثِيمnoun
  1. 1.
    Mounds, accumulationsclassical

    Plural of جرثومة, referring to mounds of earth or raised places.

مُتَجَرِّثِمadjective
  1. 1.
    Gatheredclassical

    Gathered or collected, often referring to animals in a compact group.

Parallel reading

الجرثومة: الأصل؛ وجرثومة كل شيء أصله ومجتمعه
The jurthūmah: the origin; and the jurthūmah of everything is its origin and its gathering place.
وقيل: الجرثومة ما اجتمع من التراب في أصول الشجر؛ عن اللحياني.
And it was said: the jurthūmah is what gathers of soil at the roots of trees; from Al-Lihyani.
وجرثومة النمل: قريته.
And the jurthūmah of ants: their village.
والجرثومة: التراب الذي تسفيه الريح، وهي أيضا ما يجمع النمل من التراب.
And the jurthūmah: the soil that the wind blows away, and it is also what ants gather of soil.
لما أراد أن يهدم الكعبة ويبنيها كانت في المسجد جراثيم أي كان فيها أماكن مرتفعة عن الأرض مجتمعة من تراب أو طين؛ أراد أن أرض المسجد لم تكن مستوية.
When he wanted to demolish the Kaaba and rebuild it, there were jurāthīm in the mosque, meaning there were places elevated from the ground, gathered from soil or mud; he meant that the ground of the mosque was not level.
الاجرنثام: الاجتماع واللزوم للموضع.
Al-ijrinthām: gathering and staying in a place.
واجرنثم القوم إذا اجتمعوا ولزموا موضعا.
And the people اجرنثم if they gathered and stayed in a place.
وعاد لها النقاد مجرنثما أي مجتمعا متقبضا، والنقاد صغار الغنم، وإنما اجتمعت من الجدب لأنها لم تجد مرعى تنتشر فيه
And the small sheep returned to it مجرنثم, meaning gathered and contracted, and the nuqqād are young sheep, and they gathered due to drought because they found no pasture to spread out in.
وتجرثم الرجل: اجتمع.
And the man تجرثم: he gathered.
والجرثومة: الغلصمة.
And the jurthūmah: the gullet.
واجرنثم الرجل وتجرثم إذا سقط من علو إلى سفل.
And the man اجرنثم and تجرثم if he fell from a height to a low place.
وتجرثم الشيء: أخذ معظمه؛ عن نصير.
And the thing تجرثم: taking its majority; from Naṣīr.
تميم برثمتها وجرثمتها ؛ الجرثمة هي الجرثومة، وجمعها جراثيم.
Tamim with its barthumah and jurthūmah; the jurthamah is the jurthūmah, and its plural is jurāthīm.
من سره أن يتقحم جراثيم جهنم فليقض في الجد.
Whoever is pleased to plunge into the jurāthīm of Hell, let him judge with seriousness.