قزم

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily denotes baseness, meanness, and inferiority, often associated with small stature or poor quality. It extends to describe individuals of low character, inferior goods, and even abstract concepts like death or a lack of prestige.

Derived headwords

القَزَمnoun

1.
meanness, basenessboth
The state of being ignoble, base, or contemptible.
2.
stinginess, avariceclassical
Avarice and stinginess, often associated with a lack of generosity.

قَزَمnoun

1.
mean, base personboth
An ignoble, base, and small-bodied person who lacks capability. This term can be used for singular, plural, masculine, and feminine.
2.
inferior goodsboth
The worst or smallest of one's possessions, particularly livestock or wealth.
3.
lowly peopleclassical
The base and lowly individuals within a group.
4.
small sheepclassical
Refers to small sheep, specifically the 'hathaf' type.

قَزَمٌadjective

1.
mean, baseboth
Describing someone as ignoble, base, and small in stature.
2.
shortboth
Describing a person, male or female, as short in stature.
3.
inferiorboth
Describing livestock or other possessions as small and of poor quality.

قَزَمَةadjective

1.
short (female)both
A female described as short in stature.
2.
inferior (female animal)both
A female sheep or other animal described as small and of poor quality.

أَقْزامnoun

1.
mean peopleboth
Plural of 'qazm', referring to ignoble and base people.

قَزامnoun

1.
mean peopleclassical
A collective noun for ignoble and base individuals.
2.
deathclassical
A term for death.

قَزَمَverb

1.
to be mean, baseboth
To be ignoble, base, and small in stature.
2.
to be shortboth
To be short in stature.
3.
to be inferiorboth
To be small and of poor quality.

قَزَمَverb

1.
to disparage, to find faultboth
To find fault with someone or something, to disparage them.

تَقَزَّمَverb

1.
to undertake with intensityclassical
To plunge into or undertake matters with great intensity or force.

قُزْمانname

1.
Qazmanclassical
A proper name of a man.

قُزْمانname

1.
Qazmanclassical
A place name.

Parallel reading

القزم، بالتحريك: الدناءة والقماءة.

Al-qazm, with vowelization: meanness and baseness.

وفي الحديث: أنه كان يتعوذ من القزم : هو اللؤم والشح

And in the hadith: He used to seek refuge from al-qazm: it is ignobility and stinginess.

والقزم: اللئيم الدنيء الصغير الجثة الذي لا غناء عنده

And al-qazm: the ignoble, base, small-bodied person who has no capability.

رجل قزم وامرأة قزم

A mean man and a mean woman.

رجل قزم ورجلان قزمان ورجال أقزام

A mean man, two mean men, and mean men.

امرأة قزمة وامرأتان قزمتان ونساء قزمات

A short woman, two short women, and short women.

وفي الحديث عن علي، عليه السلام، في ذم أهل الشام: جفاة طغام عبيد أقزام

And in the narration from Ali, peace be upon him, in dispraise of the people of Sham: coarse, base, enslaved, ignoble people.

والقزام: اللئام

And al-qazam: the ignoble ones.

تلك أفعال القزام الوكعه

Those are the actions of the ignoble, the wicked.

وشاة قزمة: رديئة صغيرة.

And a qazimah sheep: bad and small.

وغنم قزم أي رذال لا خير فيها، وإن شئت غنم أقزام

And qazm sheep meaning worthless ones with no good in them, and if you wish, qazm sheep (plural).

والقزم: أردأ المال.

And al-qazm: the worst of wealth.

وقزم المال: صغاره ورديئه.

And qazm of wealth: its small and bad portion.

ورجل قزمة: قصير، وكذلك الأنثى، والاسم القزم.

And a qazimah man: short, and likewise the female, and the noun is al-qazm.

والقزم: رذال الناس وسفلتهم

And al-qazm: the worthless and lowliest of people.

لا بخل خالطه ولا قزم

No stinginess mixed with it, nor baseness.

والقزم: صغار الغنم وهي الحذف.

And al-qazm: small sheep, which are the hathaf.

والسودد العادي غير الأقزم

And the inherited leadership, not the unestablished one.

وقزمه قزما: عابه كقرمه.

And he qazama-ed him a qazm: he found fault with him, like qarm-ing him.

والتقزم: اقتحام الأمور بشدة.

And al-taqazzum: plunging into matters with intensity.

والقزام: الموت؛ عن كراع.

And al-qazam: death; according to Kara'.