غتم

Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to a lack of fluency or clarity in speech, often implying a foreign accent or inability to articulate properly. It also extends to meanings of thickness, intensity (like heat), and a state of being overwhelmed or in peril.

Derived headwords

الغتمةnoun

1.
lisping, impediment in speechboth
A defect in speech, characterized by a lack of fluency or clarity, often implying an inability to speak articulately.

أغتمadjective

1.
lisping, inarticulateboth
Describing a person, typically male, who has a significant impediment in their speech and cannot speak fluently or articulately.

غتميadjective

1.
lisping, inarticulateboth
Describing a person, typically male, who is completely unable to speak fluently or articulately.
2.
thick (milk)classical
Referring to milk that is so thick it makes no sound when poured.
3.
heavy-spiritedclassical
Describing someone who is slow-witted or heavy-spirited.

غتماءadjective

1.
lisping, inarticulateboth
Describing a woman who has a significant impediment in her speech and cannot speak fluently or articulately.

غتمnoun

1.
thickening (of milk)classical
The process or state of milk becoming thick.
2.
intense heatclassical
Severe heat, particularly that which affects one's well-being.
3.
taking by the soulclassical
A feeling of being overwhelmed or deeply affected, often by heat or hardship.

أغتامadjective

1.
lisping, inarticulateboth
Describing a group of people who are unable to speak fluently or articulately.

مغتومadjective

1.
feeling the heatclassical
Experiencing intense heat, especially when hungry.

أغتمverb

1.
to visit excessivelyclassical
To visit someone frequently or excessively to the point of causing weariness or annoyance.

يغتمverb

1.
to visit excessivelyclassical
He visits frequently or excessively to the point of causing weariness or annoyance.

إغبابهnoun

1.
frequent repetitionclassical
The act of repeating something frequently, such as verses of poetry.

يغتمverb

1.
to repeat frequentlyclassical
He repeats frequently, such as verses of poetry.

غتمverb

1.
to gather, accumulateclassical
Referring to food accumulating or gathering.

غتيمnoun

1.
deathclassical
A term for death, used in a specific dialect or context.

الغتيمnoun

1.
deathclassical
Death, used with the definite article.

Parallel reading

الغتمة: عجمة في المنطق.

Al-ghatmah: a lisping in speech.

ورجل أغتم وغتمي: لا يفصح شيئا.

And a man is agham and ghtimmi: he does not speak fluently at all.

وامرأة غتماء وقوم غتم وأغتام.

And a woman ghamā', and a people gham, and aghṭām.

ولبن غتمي: ثخين لا يسمع له صوت إذا صب؛ عن ابن الأعرابي.

And ghtimmi milk: thick, no sound is heard from it when poured; according to Ibn al-A'rābī.

الغتم: قطع اللبن الثخان؛ ومنه قيل للثقيل الروح: غتمي.

Al-ghatm: the thickening of milk; from this, one is called ghtimmi: heavy-spirited.

والغتم: شدة الحر والأخذ بالنفس؛ قال الراجز: حرقها حمض بلاد فل، ... وغتم نجم غير مستقل

And al-ghatm: intense heat and taking by the soul; the poet said: 'Its burning is the sour herbage of Fuland... and ghutm is a star not yet risen high'

أي غير مرتفع لثبات الحر المنسوب إليه، وإنما يشتد الحر عند طلوع الشعرى التي في الجوزاء، ويقال للذي يجد الحر وهو جائع: مغتوم.

meaning not risen high due to the persistent heat attributed to it. Indeed, the heat intensifies at the rising of al-Shi'rā al-Ghumaymā in Gemini, and one who feels the heat while hungry is called maghtūm.

وأغتم فلان الزيارة: أكثرها حتى يمل.

And so-and-so aghamma the visit: he increased it until one became weary.

وقالوا: كان العجاج يغتم الشعر أي يكثر إغبابه.

And they said: Al-'Ajjāj used to aghamma poetry, meaning he frequently repeated its verses.

وغتم الطعام: تجمع؛ عن الهجري.

And food aghatama: it gathered; according to Al-Hajri.

ووقع فلان في أحواض غتيم أي وقع في الموت، لغة في غثيم؛ عن ابن الأعرابي.

And so-and-so fell into ghutaym pools, meaning he fell into death, a variant of ghuthaym; according to Ibn al-A'rābī.

وحكي اللحياني: ورد حوض غتيم أي مات، قال: والغتيم الموت فأدخل عليه الألف واللام؛ قال ابن سيده: ولا أعرفها عن غيره، والله أعلم.

And Al-Lihyānī narrated: He drank from ghutaym pool, meaning he died. He said: And al-ghutaym is death, with the definite article added; Ibn Sīdah said: I do not know it from anyone else, and God knows best.