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رنم

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the pleasant, melodious, or resonant sound produced by various entities, including the human voice, animals, and even inanimate objects like musical instruments or plants. It encompasses the act of singing, trilling, or making a pleasing noise.

Derived headwords

رَنِمَverb
  1. 1.
    to make a pleasant soundboth

    To produce a sweet, melodious, or resonant sound, often associated with singing or trilling.

رَنِمٌnoun
  1. 1.
    soundclassical

    A sound, particularly a pleasant or resonant one.

  2. 2.
    singersclassical

    Skilled female singers.

  3. 3.
    maidsclassical

    Clever and accomplished young female servants.

تَرَنَّمَverb
  1. 1.
    to sing melodiouslyboth

    To sing with a beautiful, modulated voice, often used in the context of reciting the Quran or the sounds of animals.

  2. 2.
    to resonateboth

    To produce a resonant or humming sound, applicable to animals, objects, or even musical instruments.

تَرْنِيمٌnoun
  1. 1.
    melodious singingboth

    The act of singing with a modulated, beautiful voice; trilling or chanting.

  2. 2.
    resonanceboth

    A pleasant, resonant sound produced by an animal, object, or instrument.

  3. 3.
    trillingboth

    The act of producing a warbling or chirping sound.

رَنِيمٌnoun
  1. 1.
    melodious soundboth

    A sweet, melodious, or modulated sound, often referring to singing or the pleasant sounds of nature.

  2. 2.
    singingboth

    The act of singing or chanting beautifully.

رَنْمَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    pleasant soundboth

    A good or pleasing sound, a resonance.

  2. 2.
    small plantclassical

    A type of small, delicate plant.

تَرَنَّمُوتٌnoun
  1. 1.
    resonance of a bowclassical

    The humming or resonant sound a bow makes when drawn or shot.

  2. 2.
    bow's hummingclassical

    The specific sound of a bow's resonance.

Parallel reading

تطريب الصوت.
Modulating the voice.
ما أذن الله لشيء أذنه لنبي حسن الترنم بالقرآن
Allah has not listened to anything as much as He has listened to a Prophet singing the Quran beautifully.
حسن الصوت يترنم بالقرآن
A beautiful voice reciting the Quran melodiously.
الترنم: التطريب والتغني وتحسين الصوت بالتلاوة
Al-tarnum: modulating, singing, and beautifying the voice during recitation.
ورنم الحمام والمكاء والجندب
And the pigeon, the hoopoe, and the cricket made a pleasant sound.
كأن رجليه رجلا مقطف عجل، ... إذا تجاوب من برديه ترنيم
As if its legs were those of a swift bird, ... when a resonant sound responded from its wings.
والحمامة تترنم
And the pigeon coos melodiously.
وللمكاء في صوته ترنيم
And the hoopoe has a resonant sound in its voice.
الرنم، بالتحريك، الصوت.
Al-ranam, with vowelization, is sound.
وقد رنم، بالكسر، وترنم إذا رجع صوته
And he made a sound, with kasra, and he modulated his voice when it returned.
وترنم الطائر في هديره
And the bird sang melodiously in its cooing.
وترنم القوس عند الإنباض
And the bow made a resonant sound when drawn.
وكل ما استلذ صوته وسمع منه رنمة حسنة «1» فله ترنيم
And anything whose sound is pleasing and from which a good resonance is heard, it has tarnim.
أراد ببرديه جناحيه، وله صرير يقع فيهما إذا رمض فطار وجعله ترنيما.
He meant by its wings, and it has a rustling sound in them when it gets hot and flies, and he called it tarnim.
الرنم المغنيات المجيدات
Al-ranam are the excellent female singers.
والرنم الجواري «2» الكيسات.
And al-ranam are the clever young maids.
قوس ترنموت لها حنين عند الرمي.
A bow called tarnamut has a humming sound when shot.
تستخرج الحبة من تابوتها
It extracts the kernel from its core.
يعني حبة القلب من الجوف، وقوله بترنموتها أي بترنمها.
Meaning the kernel of the heart from the inside, and his saying 'bi-tarnamutiha' means 'bi-tarnamiha' (with its resonance).
والترنموت الترنم، زادوا فيه الواو والتاء كما زادوا في ملكوت.
And al-tarnamut is al-tarnam; they added 'waw' and 'ta' as they did in 'malakut'.
من نبات السهل الحربث والرنمة والتربة؛
From the plants of the plain are al-harbath, al-ranamah, and al-turbah;
وهو عندنا الرتمة، قال أبو منصور: الرنمة من دق النبات معروف
And it is with us al-ratmah. Abu Mansur said: Al-ranamah is known as a delicate plant.
والرنمة، بالنون، ضرب من الشجر
And al-ranamah, with 'nun', is a type of tree.
والرتم من الأشجار الكبار ذوات الساق، والرنمة من دق النبات.
And al-ratam is of the large trees with trunks, and al-ranamah is of the delicate plants.