جهم

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes a harsh, stern, or unpleasant facial expression and demeanor. It extends to concepts of roughness, difficulty, and scarcity, particularly in relation to the night and clouds.

Derived headwords

جَهْمadjective

1.
stern-facedboth
Describes someone with a harsh, stern, or unpleasant facial expression.
2.
roughclassical
Describes something as coarse or rough, like a difficult terrain or a harsh situation.
3.
weakclassical
Describes someone as weak, feeble, or incapable.

جَهُمَverb

1.
to be stern-facedboth
To have a harsh, stern, or unpleasant facial expression.
2.
to be roughclassical
To become rough or harsh.

جُهومَةnoun

1.
sternnessboth
The quality of having a harsh, stern, or unpleasant facial expression.
2.
harshnessclassical
A state of being rough or harsh.

جَهَامَةnoun

1.
sternnessclassical
The quality of having a harsh, stern, or unpleasant facial expression.

جَهَمَverb

1.
to meet with a stern faceboth
To confront someone with a harsh or unpleasant facial expression.

تَجَهَّمَverb

1.
to frownboth
To make a stern or displeased facial expression.
2.
to be met with harshnessboth
To be received or encountered with a stern or unpleasant demeanor.

تَجَهُّمnoun

1.
frowningboth
The act of making a stern or displeased facial expression.
2.
harsh receptionboth
The act of being met with a stern or unpleasant demeanor.

جَهْم الوَجْهadjective

1.
stern-facedboth
Having a harsh, stern, or unpleasant facial expression.

جَهْمَةnoun

1.
early part of the nightclassical
The early hours of the night, after sunset.
2.
large potclassical
A large, heavy cooking pot.

جُهْمَةnoun

1.
early part of the nightclassical
The early hours of the night, after sunset.

الجَهامnoun

1.
rainless cloudsboth
Clouds that appear to have no rain, or have already shed their water.

أبو جَهْمَةname

1.
a nameclassical
A proper name, specifically mentioned as Abu Jahmah al-Laythi.

جُهَيْمname

1.
a nameclassical
A proper name.

جُيْهِمname

1.
a nameclassical
A proper name.

جُهَيْمَةname

1.
a nameclassical
A proper name, referring to a woman.

بَنُو جَاهِمَةname

1.
a tribe nameclassical
The name of a lineage or tribe.

جُيْهِمَاname

1.
a place nameclassical
The name of a place, described as being in the lowlands and inhabited by jinn.

Parallel reading

من الوجوه: الغليظ المجتمع في سماجة، وقد جهم جهومة وجهامة.

Among faces: the coarse, gathered in unpleasantness, and he was stern-faced, with sternness and harshness.

وجهمه يجهمه: استقبله بوجه كريه؛

And he met him with a stern face: he received him with an unpleasant face;

ولا تجهمينا، أم عمرو، فإنما ... بنا داء ظبي لم تخنه عوامله

And do not meet us with stern faces, Umm Amr, for indeed... we have the ailment of a gazelle whose faculties have not betrayed it.

وتجهمه وتجهم له: كجهمه إذا استقبله بوجه كريه.

And to frown at him and to frown for him: is like meeting him with an unpleasant face.

إلى عدو يتجهمني أي يلقاني بالغلظة والوجه الكريه.

To an enemy who frowns at me, meaning he meets me with harshness and an unpleasant face.

فتجهمني القوم.

And the people frowned at me.

ورجل جهم الوجه أي كالح الوجه، تقول منه: جهمت الرجل وتجهمته إذا كلحت في وجهه.

And a man with a stern face, meaning a grim face, from which you say: I made the man stern-faced and I frowned at him when I made a grimace at his face.

وقد جهم، بالضم، جهومة إذا صار باسر الوجه.

And he became stern-faced, with the verb in the passive, with sternness, if he became grim-faced.

ورجل جهم الوجه وجهمه: غليظه، وفيه جهومة.

And a man with a stern face and his sternness: his coarseness, and in him is sternness.

ويقال للأسد: جهم الوجه.

And the lion is called: stern-faced.

ورجل جهم وجهم وجهوم: عاجز ضعيف؛

And a man is jahm, jahm, and jahoom: incapable, weak;

وجهمة الليل وجهمته، بالفتح والضم، وهو أول مآخير الليل، وذلك ما بين الليل إلى قريب من وقت السحر؛

And jahmah of the night and juhmatah of the night, with the fath and damma, and it is the early part of the night, and that is between nightfall until near the time of pre-dawn;

مضى من الليل جهمة وجهمة.

A jahmah and a juhmah of the night have passed.

وجهمة سوداء، عند نشيجها، لا ترفع

And a black, large pot, at its bubbling, does not lift.

والجهام، بالفتح: السحاب الذي لا ماء فيه، وقيل: الذي قد هراق ماءه مع الريح.

And al-jaham, with the fath: the clouds that have no water in them, and it was said: those that have poured out their water with the wind.

ونستحيل الجهام؛ الجهام: السحاب الذي فرغ ماؤه،

And we look for the jaham; al-jaham: the clouds whose water has run out,

جئتني بجهام أي الذي تعرضه علي من الدين لا خير فيه كالجهام الذي لا ماء فيه.

You have come to me with jaham, meaning what you offer me of debt has no good in it, like jaham which has no water in it.

وأبو جهمة الليثي: معروف:

And Abu Jahmah al-Laythi: is known.

فيا رب عمر لي جهيمة أعصرا ... فمالك موت بالفراق دهاني

O Lord, grant me a long life, Jahimah, for centuries... for what is death to you, that separation should afflict me.

وبنو جاهمة: بطن منهم.

And Banu Jahimah: a clan among them.

أحاديث جن زرن جنا بجيهما

Stories of jinn who visited jinn at Jihayma.