حنتم

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

The root حنتم (ḥntm) primarily relates to a type of green or reddish-brown earthenware jar, often used for storing wine. It also extends to describe dark, rain-laden clouds, metaphorically linked to the color of these jars. The root also appears in place names and as a maternal lineage name.

Derived headwords

الحِنْتَمnoun

1.
Earthenware jarsboth
Jars, typically green with a reddish hue, used for carrying wine or other liquids. The term was later extended to encompass pottery in general.
2.
Dark cloudsclassical
Clouds, particularly dark or black ones, likened to the color of the jars, often implying they are full of rain.

الحنتم: جرار خضر تضرب إلى الحمرة — Earthenware jars, green with a reddish hue

والحنتم: سحاب، وقيل: سحاب سود — And al-ḥintam: clouds, and it is said: black clouds

حَنْتَمname

1.
Name of a placeclassical
A place name mentioned in poetry.

كأنك بالصحراء من فوق حنتم — As if you were in the desert, from above Ḥanṭam

حَنَاتِمnoun

1.
Dark cloudsclassical
Plural of ḥantama, referring to dark, black clouds, considered green by Arabs due to their association with verdure.

حَنَاتِم سحم ماؤهن ثجيج — Dark clouds whose water is abundant

حِنْتَمَةnoun

1.
A single jarboth
The singular form of ḥintam, referring to a single earthenware jar.
2.
Mother of Umar ibn al-Khattabclassical
The name of the mother of the second Caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab, who was Hantama bint Hashim.

والواحدة حنتمة — And the singular is ḥantama

أن ابن حنتمة بعجت له الدنيا معاها — That Ibn Ḥantama, the world was opened up to him with all its riches

Parallel reading

له هيدب دان كأن فروجه، ... فويق الحصى والأرض، أرفاض حنتم

It has hanging, low-lying clouds, whose openings, above the pebbles and the earth, are like ḥintam (jars).

رجعت إلى صدر كجرة حنتم، ... إذا قرعت صفرا من الماء صلت

I returned to a chest like a ḥintam (jar), when struck empty of water, it resounds.

بميسان، يسقى من رخام وحنتم؟

In Maysan, watered from streams and ḥintam (clouds/jars)?

سقى أم عمرو، كل آخر ليلة، ... حناتم سحم ماؤهن ثجيج

May it water Umm Amr, every last night, with dark clouds whose water is abundant.

كأنك بالصحراء من فوق حنتم ... تناغيك، من تحت الخدور، الجآذر

As if you were in the desert, from above Ḥanṭam, the gazelles are cooing to you from beneath the veils.

أن النبي، صلى الله عليه وسلم، نهى عن الدباء والحنتم

That the Prophet, peace be upon him, forbade (the use of) ad-dubā' and al-ḥintam.

هي جرار حمر كانت تحمل إلى المدينة فيها الخمر

They are red jars that were brought to Medina containing wine.

وقيل للسحاب حنتم وحناتم لامتلائها من الماء، شبهت بحناتم الجرار المملوءة

And clouds are called ḥintam and ḥanātim for their fullness of water, likened to the full jars.

الحنتم جرار مدهونة خضر كانت تحمل الخمر فيها إلى المدينة

Al-ḥintam are green, greased jars in which wine was carried to Medina.

ثم اتسع فيها فقيل للخزف كله حنتم، واحدتها حنتمة

Then the term was broadened to include all pottery, calling it ḥintam, its singular being ḥantama.

وإنما نهى عن الانتباذ فيها لأنها تسرع الشدة فيها لأجل دهنها

And the prohibition was because fermentation happens quickly in them due to their greasing.

أن ابن حنتمة بعجت له الدنيا معاها

That Ibn Ḥantama, the world was opened up to him with all its riches.

حنتمة: أم عمر بن الخطاب، رضي الله عنه، وهي بنت هاشم بن المغيرة

Ḥantama: the mother of Umar ibn al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, and she is Hantama bint Hashim ibn al-Mughira.