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دءم

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of pushing, pressing, or overwhelming, often with a sense of accumulation or covering. It extends to ideas of being submerged, piled upon, or mounted.

Derived headwords

دأمverb
  1. 1.
    to pushboth

    To push something, like a wall, with force.

  2. 2.
    to liftclassical

    To lift or raise something, similar to 'dama' (دعم).

دأماnoun
  1. 1.
    a pushclassical

    The act of pushing, specifically a wall, with a single forceful motion.

تداءمverb
  1. 1.
    to pile upboth

    For matters, hardships, worries, or waves to accumulate and press upon someone, breaking over each other.

  2. 2.
    to accumulateclassical

    For things to pile up and break over one another.

تدأمverb
  1. 1.
    to pile upboth

    For matters, hardships, worries, or waves to accumulate and press upon someone, breaking over each other.

  2. 2.
    to be submergedboth

    For water to cover or submerge something.

تدأمهverb
  1. 1.
    to pile up onboth

    For matters, hardships, worries, or waves to accumulate and press upon someone, breaking over each other.

  2. 2.
    to submergeboth

    For water to cover or submerge something.

تدؤمverb
  1. 1.
    to mountclassical

    For a male animal (stallion) to mount a female animal (mare).

  2. 2.
    to jump onclassical

    To jump upon someone and ride them.

الدأمnoun
  1. 1.
    coveringclassical

    That which covers you, like a garment or protection.

مدأمadjective
  1. 1.
    overwhelmingclassical

    Describing an army that is overwhelming and capable of attacking anything.

تدؤمverb
  1. 1.
    to mountclassical

    For a male animal (stallion) to mount a female animal (mare).

  2. 2.
    to jump onclassical

    To jump upon someone and ride them.

الدأماءnoun
  1. 1.
    seaclassical

    A name for the sea, implying its vastness and depth.

Parallel reading

دأم الحائط عليه دأما: دفعه.
The wall pushed against him with a push: it repelled him.
الدأم إذا دفعت حائطا فدأمته بمرة واحدة على شيء في وهدة، تقول: دأمته عليه.
The 'daam' is when you push a wall and push it once onto something in a hollow; you say: 'I pushed it onto it.'
ودأمت الحائط أي رفعته مثل دعمته.
And I pushed the wall, meaning I lifted it, like I supported it.
تداءمت عليه الأمور والأهوال والهموم والأمواج، بوزن تفاعلت، وتدأمته؛ الأخيرة معداة بغير حرف: تراكمت عليه وتزاحمت وتكسر بعضها على بعض.
Matters, horrors, worries, and waves piled up on him, in the pattern of 'tafa'alta', and 'tadaamathu'; the latter is transitive without a preposition: they accumulated upon him, jostled each other, and broke over one another.
وتدأمه الماء: غمره، وهو تفعل؛
And the water submerged him, meaning it covered him, and it is of the pattern 'tafa'ala'.
وأنشد لرؤبة: كما هوى فرعون، إذ تغمغما، ... تحت ظلال الموج، إذ تدأما
And Ru'bah recited: As Pharaoh fell, when he gasped, ... beneath the shadows of the waves, when they surged.
تداءمه الأمر مثل تداعمه إذا تراكم عليه وتكسر بعضه فوق بعض.
The matter overwhelmed him like 'tadaamahu' if it piled up on him and broke over one another.
وتدأم الفحل الناقة أي تجللها.
And the stallion mounted the she-camel, meaning he covered her.
وجيش مدأم: يركب كل شيء.
And a 'mudaam' army: it attacks everything.
تدأمت الرجل تدؤما إذا وثبت عليه فركبته.
You jumped upon the man, 'tad'uman', if you leaped onto him and rode him.
والليل كالدأماء مستشعر، ... من دونه، لونا كلون السدوس
And the night is like the 'daamaa' (sea), sensing, ... beyond it, a color like the color of al-Sudus.