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غذم

Root entry · 21 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of eating, often with connotations of intensity, greed, or a lack of refinement. It extends to related concepts like consuming, chewing, and even the abundance of water or pasture.

Derived headwords

غَذَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to eatboth

    To eat soft, tender food. It can also refer to eating easily or with greed and intensity.

  2. 2.
    to eat greedilyboth

    To eat with voracity and intensity, or with coarseness.

غَذِمَverb
  1. 1.
    to eat greedilyboth

    To eat with voracity and intensity, or with coarseness.

غَذُمَverb
  1. 1.
    to eat greedilyboth

    To eat with voracity and intensity, or with coarseness.

اغْتَذَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to eat greedilyboth

    To eat with voracity, or with coarseness.

  2. 2.
    to drink allclassical

    A young camel drinking all the milk in its mother's udder.

غَذْمnoun
  1. 1.
    eatingboth

    The act of eating, particularly soft and tender food, or eating with greed and intensity.

  2. 2.
    greedinessclassical

    Intense and coarse eating.

  3. 3.
    a portionclassical

    A portion of something, given bit by bit.

  4. 4.
    a sipclassical

    A mouthful or gulp.

  5. 5.
    abundance of milkclassical

    A large quantity of milk.

غَذِمٌadjective
  1. 1.
    greedy eaterboth

    A person who eats a lot.

بِئْرٌ غَذْمَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    water-abundant wellclassical

    A well that contains a lot of water.

ذَاتُ غَذِيمَةٍnoun
  1. 1.
    water-abundantclassical

    Describing a well or place that is abundant with water.

تَغَذَّمَverb
  1. 1.
    to chewboth

    To chew something, often implying mastication.

  2. 2.
    to eat voraciouslyclassical

    To eat everything, especially if one is a voracious eater.

  3. 3.
    to lickclassical

    A camel licking butter or fat and then spitting it out.

اغْتَذَمَ الفَصِيلُverb
  1. 1.
    to drink allclassical

    A young camel drinking all the milk in its mother's udder.

غَذْمَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    a gulpclassical

    A mouthful or a large sip.

  2. 2.
    a portionclassical

    A portion of something, given bit by bit.

  3. 3.
    a quantity of milkclassical

    A unit or quantity of milk.

  4. 4.
    a patch of pastureclassical

    A patch of land with abundant grass or herbs.

غَذَمَ لَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to give generouslyclassical

    To give a large amount of one's wealth to someone.

غَذْمَذَماًadverb
  1. 1.
    in bulkclassical

    Measuring by large quantities, in bulk, or wholesale.

غَذَامَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    a type of sour plantclassical

    A type of sour herbage or plant.

  2. 2.
    milk productclassical

    A certain product made from milk.

غِذْمَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    a difficult situationclassical

    A predicament or a difficult situation, especially concerning abundant vegetation.

  2. 2.
    a patch of pastureclassical

    A patch of land with abundant grass or herbs.

غَذِيمَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    pastureclassical

    Any place that is easily accessible for grazing; abundant pasture.

  2. 2.
    seasclassical

    The seas.

  3. 3.
    early camel fatclassical

    The first fatness of camels acquired from grazing.

  4. 4.
    toleranceclassical

    A person's capacity or willingness to tolerate or accept things.

  5. 5.
    a type of plantclassical

    A type of plant that grows after people have left their homes.

  6. 6.
    interlocking thingsclassical

    Anything that is layered or interlocks with itself.

سَيِّدٌ مُتَغَذِّمٌadjective
  1. 1.
    unrestrained leaderclassical

    A leader who is not prevented from doing what he wants and who does not find anything too difficult.

غَذَائِمٌnoun
  1. 1.
    seasclassical

    The seas.

  2. 2.
    interlocking thingsclassical

    Anything that is layered or interlocks with itself.

غَذْمٌnoun
  1. 1.
    a plantclassical

    A type of plant, one of which is called 'ghadhmah'.

غَذِيمَةُ الأَرْضِnoun
  1. 1.
    fertile landclassical

    Land that produces the plant 'ghadhim'.

غِذَامٌnoun
  1. 1.
    a type of sour plantclassical

    A type of sour herbage or plant; it is a variant pronunciation of 'ghadhm'.

Parallel reading

أكل الرطب اللين.
To eat soft, tender food.
والغذم أيضا: الأكل السهل.
And al-ghadhm is also: easy eating.
والغذم: الأكل بجفاء وشدة نهم.
And al-ghadhm: eating with coarseness and intense greed.
وقد غذمه، بالكسر، وغذم وغذم يغذم غذما واغتذم: أكل بنهمة، وقيل: أكل بجفاء.
And he ate it, with kasr, and ghazama, and ghazama, yaghdhmu ghazman, and ightadhama: he ate with greed, and it was said: he ate with coarseness.
عليكم معاشر قريش بدنياكم فاغذموها ؛ هو شدة الأكل بجفاء وشدة نهم.
O people of Quraysh, take care of your bodies, and eat them intensely; it means intense eating with coarseness and intense greed.
ورجل غذم: كثير الأكل.
And a man is ghazm: a big eater.
وبئر غذمة: كثيرة الماء، وذات غذيمة مثله.
And a well is ghazmah: abundant with water, and dhati ghazimah is similar.
وتغذم الشيء: مضغه؛
And taghadhama the thing: to chew it;
تغذمن في جانبيه الخبير ... لما وهى مزنه واستبيحا
They chewed intensely in its sides the knowledgeable one... when its clouds weakened and were plundered.
وهو يتغذم كل شيء إذا كان كثير الأكل.
And he taghadhama everything if he is a big eater.
واغتذم الفصيل ما في ضرع أمه أي شرب جميع ما فيه.
And the young camel ightadhama what was in its mother's udder, meaning it drank all that was in it.
ويقال للحوار إذا امتك ما في الضرع: قد غذمه واغتذمه.
And it is said of a young camel if it sucks up what is in the udder: it has ghazamah and ightazamah.
وأصابوا من معروفه غذما: وهو شيء بعد شيء.
And they obtained from his kindness ghazman: which is something bit by bit.
والغذمة: الجرعة؛
And al-ghazmah: a gulp;
وغذم له من ماله شيئا: أعطاه منه شيئا كثيرا مثل غثم؛
And he ghazama for him from his wealth something: he gave him a lot of it, like gathama;
يكتالون كيلا غذمذما
They measure by measure, in bulk.
إذا أكثر من العطية قيل غذم له وغثم له وقذم له.
If he gives a lot of the gift, it is said ghazama for him, and gathama for him, and qathama for him.
والغذم: الكثير من اللبن، واحدته غذمة؛
And al-ghazm: the abundant of milk, its singular is ghazmah;
مما غذته غذما فغذما
From what it nourished it, ghazman then ghazman.
والغذامة، بالضم، شيء من اللبن.
And al-ghadahamah, with damma, is something of milk.
ووقعوا في غذمة من الأرض وغذيمة أي في واقعة منكرة من البقل والعشب.
And they fell into ghazmah of the land and ghazimah, meaning in a severe occurrence of herbs and grass.
وغذموا بها غذمة وغذيمة: أصابوها.
And they ghazamu with it ghazmah and ghazimah: they encountered it.
وكل ما أمكن من المرتع فهو غذيمة؛
And all that is possible for grazing is ghazimah;
وجعلت لا تجد الغذائما ... إلا لويا ودويلا قاشما
And I made it so that you do not find the pastures... except twisted and short.
هو سيد متغذم لا يمنع من كل ما أراد ولا يتعاظمه شيء.
He is a leader who is unrestrained, not prevented from anything he wants, and nothing is too difficult for him.
والغذائم: البحور، الواحدة غذيمة.
And al-ghadha'im: the seas, the singular is ghazimah.
والغذيمة: أول سمن الإبل في المرعى.
And al-ghazimah: the first fatness of camels from grazing.
وألق في غذيمة فلان ما شئت أي في رحب صدره.
And throw into so-and-so's ghazimah whatever you wish, meaning into the breadth of his chest.
وما سمع له غذمة أي كلمة.
And nothing was heard from him, ghazmah, meaning a word.
وتغذم البعير بزبده: تلمظ به وألقاه من فيه.
And the camel taghadhama with its butter: it licked it and spat it out of its mouth.
والغذيمة: كل كلإ وكل شيء يركب بعضه بعضا؛
And al-ghazimah: all herbage and everything that layers upon itself;
هي بقلة تنبت بعد سير الناس من الدار.
It is a herb that grows after people have traveled from home.
الغذائم كل متراكب بعضه على بعض.
Al-ghadha'im are all things layered upon each other.
والغذم، بالتحريك: نبت، واحدته غذمة؛
And al-ghazm, with harakat: a plant, its singular is ghazmah;
في عثعث ينبت الحوذان والغذما
In the soft ground where the Houzhan and al-Ghadhma grow.
والغذيمة: الأرض تنبت الغذم.
And al-ghazimah: the land that grows al-ghazm.
حلوا في غذيمة منكرة.
They settled in a severe ghazimah.
والغذام: ضرب من الحمض، واحدته غذامة.
And al-ghudham: a type of sour plant, its singular is ghudamah.
من زغف الغذام والهشيما
From the shoots of al-Ghudham and the withered plants.