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جشم

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

The root جشم primarily relates to undertaking something with difficulty, hardship, or reluctance. It extends to concepts of burden, physical exertion, and even specific geographical or tribal references.

Derived headwords

جَشِمَverb
  1. 1.
    to undertake with hardshipboth

    To undertake an affair or task that involves difficulty and hardship.

جَشْمًاnoun
  1. 1.
    undertaking with hardshipclassical

    The act or masdar of undertaking something with difficulty.

جَشَامَةًnoun
  1. 1.
    undertaking with hardshipclassical

    The act or masdar of undertaking something with difficulty.

تَجَشَّمَverb
  1. 1.
    to undertake with difficultyboth

    To take upon oneself an affair or task that is difficult or burdensome.

  2. 2.
    to ride overclassical

    To ride over or traverse difficult terrain, such as the roughest parts of sand dunes.

  3. 3.
    to intend forclassical

    To head towards or intend for a place.

  4. 4.
    to chooseclassical

    To select or choose someone from among a group.

أَجْشَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to burden someoneclassical

    To cause someone else to undertake a difficult task or affair.

تَجْشِيمًاnoun
  1. 1.
    burdeningclassical

    The act of causing someone to undertake a difficult task.

الجُشْمnoun
  1. 1.
    hardshipclassical

    The name for the act of undertaking something with difficulty or reluctance.

  2. 2.
    chest/chest cavityclassical

    The chest, or the thoracic cavity enclosed by the ribs.

  3. 3.
    heavy burdenclassical

    A heavy load or burden, metaphorically or literally.

  4. 4.
    fat menclassical

    Fat or stout men.

  5. 5.
    poor dirhamsclassical

    Low-quality or counterfeit silver coins.

  6. 6.
    tall, dark menclassical

    Tall, dark-complexioned men.

  7. 7.
    destructionclassical

    Ruin or destruction.

جُشْمname
  1. 1.
    tribe nameboth

    A name for various tribes or clans, including those from Mudar, Yemen, Aws, Khazraj, Thaqif, and Taghlib.

Parallel reading

جشم الأمر، بالكسر، يجشمه جشما وجشامة وتجشمه: تكلفه على مشقة.
Jashima the affair, with kasra, yajshamuhu jashman and jashamatan and tajashshamahu: to undertake it with hardship.
وأجشمني فلان أمرا وجشمنيه أي كلفني
And so-and-so burdened me with an affair and jashmanihī it, meaning he tasked me with it.
فما أجشمت من إتيان قوم، ... هم الأعداء والأكباد سود
So I did not undertake the coming to a people... they are enemies and their livers are black.
وجشمته الأمر تجشيما
And I burdened him with the affair, tajshiman.
تجشمت الأمر وتجسمته إذا حملت نفسك عليه
Tajashshamtu the affair and tajassamtuhu if you carried yourself to do it.
تجشم القرقور موج الآذي
The ship endured the waves of the sea.
تجشمت الأمر إذا ركبت أجسمه
Tajashshamtu the affair if you rode its most difficult parts.
وتجشمت الأرض إذا أخذت نحوها تريدها
And tajashshamtu the land if you headed towards it intending it.
وتجشمت الرمل ركبت أعظمه
And tajashshamtu the sand, riding its most rugged parts.
تجشمت فلانا من بين القوم أي قصدت قصده
Tajashshamtu so-and-so from among the people, meaning I intended his direction.
وعلى جفاه، وعلى أنقابه
And on its rough parts, and on its pathways.
قد تجشمت كذا وكذا أي فعلته على كره ومشقة
He has undertaken such-and-such, meaning he did it with reluctance and hardship.
يمشين هونا، وبعد الهون من جشم، ... ومن جناء غضيض الطرف مستور
They walk gently, and after gentleness comes hardship, ... and from a modest, hidden bounty.
والجشم: الجوف، وقيل: الصدر وما اشتمل عليه من الضلوع.
And al-jushm: the belly, and it was said: the chest and what it contains of ribs.
وجشم البعير: صدره وما غشي به القرن من صدره وسائر خلقه.
And the camel's jushm: its chest and what covers its chest and the rest of its form.
ويقال: غته بجشمه إذا ألقى صدره عليه.
And it is said: He choked him with his jushm if he threw his chest upon him.
ورمى عليه جشمه وجشمه أي ثقله.
And he threw upon him his jushm and jashamah, meaning his weight.
والجشم: الغليظ
And al-jushm: the thick/stout.
الجشم السمان من الرجال
Al-jushm: the stout men.
الجشم السمن
Al-jushm: stoutness.
الجشم دراهم رديئة، وجمعها جشوم
Al-jushm: bad dirhams, and their plural is jushum.
بدا ضرب الكرام وضرب تيم، ... كضرب الدنبلية والجشوم
The striking of the noble appeared, and the striking of Taym, ... like the striking of the dunbiliyyah and the jushum.
ما جشمت اليوم ظلفا
I did not undertake a hoof today.
ما جشمت اليوم طعاما أي ما أكلت
I did not undertake food today, meaning I did not eat.
ما جشمت اليوم شيئا
I did not undertake anything today.
تجشمت فلانا من بين القوم أي اخترته
Tajashshamtu so-and-so from among the people, meaning I chose him.
تجشمته من بينهن بمرهف، ... له جالب، فوق الرصاف، عليل
I chose him from among them with a sharp sword, ... it has a caller, above the الرصاف, ailing.
الجشم الطوال الأعفار
Al-jushm: the tall, dark ones.
الجشم الهلاك
Al-jushm: destruction.
جشم بن بكر: حي من مضر.
Jushm ibn Bakr: a tribe from Mudar.
جشم بن همدان: حي من اليمن.
Jushm ibn Hamdan: a tribe from Yemen.
وبنو جوشم: حي من جرهم درجوا.
And Banu Jushm: a tribe from Jurhum that perished.
وهو جشم بن خزرج
And he is Jushm ibn Khazraj.
إن سرك العز فجخجخ بجشم
If honor pleases you, then be mighty with Jushm.
وهو جشم بن ثقيف
And he is Jushm ibn Thaqif.
وهو جشم بن معاوية بن بكر بن هوازن
And he is Jushm ibn Mu'awiyah ibn Bakr ibn Hawazin.