كثم

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to concepts of fullness, abundance, and containment, often associated with the stomach or a full vessel. It also extends to meanings of concealment, disappearance, and proximity.

Derived headwords

الكثمةnoun

1.
corpulent womanclassical
A woman who is corpulent or bloated, whether from drinking or other causes.

أكثمadjective

1.
full, abundantclassical
Describing a vessel, like a milk-skin (وطب), that is full or abundant.
2.
large-belliedboth
Having a large or wide belly.
3.
satiatedboth
Full from eating, satiated.
4.
wideclassical
Describing a road that is wide.

يكثمverb

1.
to conceal, hideclassical
To conceal or hide something, such as tracks.
2.
to eatclassical
To eat something like cucumbers, putting it in the mouth and breaking it.
3.
to hide oneselfclassical
For a man to hide or conceal himself within his home.
4.
to turn awayclassical
To turn away from a certain direction or purpose.
5.
to fillclassical
To fill a waterskin or container.
6.
to divertclassical
To divert someone from a matter or task.

كثمnoun

1.
eatingclassical
The act of eating cucumbers or similar items by putting them in the mouth and breaking them.
2.
proximityclassical
Nearness or closeness, similar to كثب (kathb).
3.
thick, viscousclassical
Describing mud or mire that is thick and viscous.

كثمهverb

1.
to concealclassical
To conceal or hide something.
2.
to eatclassical
To eat something like cucumbers.
3.
to hideclassical
To hide oneself.
4.
to turn awayclassical
To turn away from something.
5.
to fillclassical
To fill a container.
6.
to divertclassical
To divert someone from something.

انكثمواverb

1.
they turned awayclassical
They turned away or departed from a certain direction or purpose.

كاثمةadjective

1.
thick, viscousclassical
Describing mud or mire that is thick and viscous.

أكثم بن صيفيname

1.
Aktham bin Saificlassical
A historical figure known as one of the arbitrators of the Arabs.

Parallel reading

الكثمة: المرأة الريا من شراب أو غيره.

Al-kathmah: The woman who is bloated from drink or other causes.

ووطب أكثم أي مملوء

And a full waterskin, meaning full.

آثارهم يكثمها كثما: اقتصها.

Their tracks, he conceals them with kathman: he traces them.

والكثم أكل القثاء ونحوه مما تدخله في فيك ثم تكسره، كثمه يكثمه كثما.

And al-kathm is eating cucumbers and the like, which you put in your mouth and then break, kathamah yakthumuhu kathman.

وأكثم الرجل في منزله: توارى فيه وتغيب، عن ابن الأعرابي.

And the man hid himself in his house: he concealed himself and disappeared in it, according to Ibn al-A'rabi.

والأكثم: العظيم البطن، وفي الصحاح: الواسع البطن.

And al-aktham: The large-bellied, and in Al-Sihah: The wide-bellied.

والأكثم: الشبعان، ويقال ذلك فيهما بالتاء أيضا، وقد تقدم: عن ثعلب.

And al-aktham: The satiated, and it is also said for both with the letter ta', as previously mentioned: according to Tha'lab.

ويقال: إنه لأيهم أكثم، الأيهم: الأعمى.

And it is said: He is indeed blind and large-bellied, al-ayham: the blind.

يقال رجل أكثم إذا امتلأ بطنه من الشبع

It is said a man is aktham if his belly is full from satiety.

وهو أكثم

And he is full-bellied.

وطريق أكثم: واسع.

And a wide road: spacious.

وكثم الطريق: وجهه وظاهره.

And kathama the road: its face and its exterior.

ويقال: انكثموا عن وجه كذا أي انصرفوا عنه.

And it is said: They turned away from such a direction, meaning they departed from it.

والكثم: القرب كالكثب، وقيل: الميم بدل من الباء.

And al-kathm: Proximity, like al-kathb, and it is said: the mim is a substitute for the ba'.

يقال: هو يرمي من كثم وكثب أي قرب وتمكن.

It is said: He shoots from kathm and kathb, meaning from proximity and ability.

وأكثم قربته: ملأها.

And akthama his waterskin: he filled it.

وكثمه عن الأمر: صرفه عنه.

And kathamah from the matter: he diverted him from it.

وحمأة كاثمة «1» وكثمة: غليظة.

And thick mud, kathimah and kathmah: viscous.

وأكثم: من أسماء الرجال.

And Aktham: is among the names of men.

وأكثم بن صيفي: أحد حكام العرب

And Aktham bin Saifi: one of the arbitrators of the Arabs.