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جنم

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to the concept of a collective or entirety of something. It is presented as a potential variant of another root, suggesting a shared semantic field of wholeness or completeness.

Derived headwords

الجَنَمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    group, collectionclassical

    A group or collection of things, signifying the entirety or totality of an object.

الجُلْمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    entirety, wholeclassical

    The whole or entirety of something, indicating that it is taken or possessed completely.

Parallel reading

الجَنَمَة جماعة الشيء
Al-janamah is the group of a thing.
أصله الجلمة فقلبت اللام نونا
Its origin is al-jalamah, and the lam was inverted to a noon.
أخذت الشيء بجلمته
I took the thing with its entirety.