علجم

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes abundance, vastness, and intensity, often related to water, darkness, or physical size. It also extends to concepts of strength, maturity, and dense growth.

Derived headwords

العَلْجَمnoun

1.
Pool of waterclassical
A pool or pond that is abundant with water.
2.
Intense blacknessclassical
A state of being intensely black or dark.

العَلْجُومnoun

1.
Abundant waterclassical
A vast and overflowing quantity of water.
2.
Frogclassical
A frog, generally, or specifically the male frog.
3.
Male duckclassical
The male duck, and by extension, sometimes both male and female ducks.
4.
Deep darknessclassical
Accumulated or overwhelming darkness, specifically the darkness of night.
5.
Mature wild animalclassical
A fully grown and mature wild animal, also applied to a mature female camel.
6.
Sea waveclassical
A wave of the sea.
7.
Thicketclassical
A dense growth of trees or bushes.
8.
Lush gardenclassical
A garden or orchard abundant with palm trees, also described as intense darkness.
9.
Human-like gazelleclassical
A gazelle that resembles a human.
10.
Strong camelclassical
A strong and robust female camel.
11.
Fat female donkeyclassical
A female donkey that is very fleshy or plump.

العَلَاجِيمnoun

1.
Frogsclassical
Plural of العلجوم, referring to frogs.
2.
Mating gazellesclassical
Gazelles that are eager for mating.
3.
Tall animalsclassical
Tall creatures, specifically referring to tall camels or donkeys.
4.
Strong camelsclassical
The strong and excellent camels.
5.
Peopleclassical
A group or gathering of people.

مُعْلَنْجِمadjective

1.
Overlapping sandclassical
Describing sand dunes that are piled up or overlapping.

Parallel reading

الغدير الكثير الماء.

A pool abundant with water.

والعلجوم: الماء الغمر الكثير؛

And the 'aljūm: the vast, abundant water;

وأظهر في غلان رقد وسيله ... علاجيم، لا ضحل ولا متضحضح

And its flowing water appeared in the lowlands, vast pools, neither shallow nor easily discernible.

والعلجوم: الضفدع عامة، وقيل: هو الذكر منها؛

And the 'aljūm: the frog in general, and it is said: it is the male of them;

فما انجلى الصبح حتى بينت غللا، ... بين الأشاء جرت فيه العلاجيم

And dawn had not broken until she revealed the frogs... among the bushes where the frogs moved.

وقيل العلجوم البط الذكر، وعم به بعضهم ذكر البط وأنثاه؛

And it is said the 'aljūm is the male duck, and some extended it to include the male and female duck;

حتى إذا بلغ الحومات أكرعها، ... وخالطت مستنيمات العلاجيم

Until it reached its watering places, ... and mingled with the resting ducks.

والعلجم والعلجوم جميعا: الشديد السواد.

And 'aljam and 'aljūm both mean: intensely black.

والعلجوم: الظلمة المتراكمة، وخصصها الجوهري فقال: ظلمة الليل؛

And the 'aljūm: the accumulated darkness, and Al-Jawhari specified it as: the darkness of the night;

أو مزنة فارق يجلو غواربها ... تبوج البرق، والظلماء علجوم

Or a distant rain cloud whose sides the lightning clears, and the darkness is overwhelming.

والعلجوم: التام المسن من الوحش، ومنه قيل للناقة المسنة علجوم.

And the 'aljūm: the fully grown, mature wild animal, and from this, a mature female camel is called 'aljūm.

والعلجوم: موج البحر

And the 'aljūm: a wave of the sea.

والعلجوم: الأجمة.

And the 'aljūm: a thicket.

والعلجوم: البستان الكثير النخل، وهو الظلمة الشديدة.

And the 'aljūm: a garden with many palm trees, and it is intense darkness.

والعلجوم: الظبي الآدم.

And the 'aljūm: the human-like gazelle.

والعلجوم من الإبل: الشديدة.

And the 'aljūm among camels: the strong one.

والعلجوم: الأتان الكثيرة اللحم.

And the 'aljūm: the female donkey that is very fleshy.

والعلاجيم من الظباء: الوادقة المريدة للسفاد، واحدها علجوم.

And the 'alājīm among gazelles: those eager for mating, the singular of which is 'aljūm.

إذا ما العلاجيم الخلاجيم نكلوا، ... وطال عليهم ضرسها وسعارها

When the tall, strong ones faltered, ... and their biting and raging prolonged over them.

أبو عمرو: العلاجيم طوال الإبل والحمر؛

Abu Amr: The 'alājīm are the tall ones among camels and donkeys;

فعجن علينا من علاجيم جلة، ... لحاجتنا منها رتوك وفاسج

So they drove towards us from large camels, ... for our need of them, the stout and the swift.

والعلجوم: الجماعة من الناس.

And the 'aljūm: a group of people.

ورمل معلنجم: متراكب؛

And 'mu'lanjim sand: overlapping;

كأن رملا غير ذي تهيم، ... من عالج ورملها المعلنجم، بملتقى عثاعث ومأكم

Like sand not of the desert, ... from the lowlands and its overlapping sand, at the meeting of mounds and hollows.