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هتم

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the breaking or chipping of teeth, specifically the incisors. It extends to the general breaking or shattering of things and also refers to a type of thorny shrub.

Derived headwords

هَتَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to chip teethboth

    To chip or break the front teeth, specifically the incisors, from their roots or tips.

هَتَمَ فَاهُverb
  1. 1.
    to chip someone's mouth/teethboth

    To chip the teeth of someone's mouth.

وضربه فهتم فاه — and he struck him and chipped his teeth.
يَهْتِمُهُverb
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    to chip (teeth)classical

    To chip or break the front teeth.

هَتْمًاnoun
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    chipping (of teeth)both

    The act of chipping or breaking the incisors.

الهَتْمُnoun
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    broken incisorsboth

    A condition where the incisors are broken, either from their roots or tips.

أَهْتَمُadjective
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    having chipped incisorsboth

    Describing someone who has chipped or broken incisors.

أن أبا عبيدة كان أهتم الثنايا — that Abu Ubaidah had chipped incisors
الهُتَمُnoun
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    broken incisorsclassical

    A state of having broken incisors.

هُتَمَاءُadjective
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    having broken incisorsboth

    Describing an animal, particularly a goat, whose incisors are broken from the root.

والهتماء من المعزى: التي انكسرت ثنيتها — And the Hتماء among goats is she whose incisor is broken.
أَهْتَمَتْهُverb
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    to cause to have chipped teethclassical

    To cause someone's teeth to become chipped or broken.

وأهتمته إهتاما إذا كسرت أسنانه — and Ahthamathu ihtaman if his teeth were broken.
إِهْتَامًاnoun
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    causing chipped teethclassical

    The act of causing teeth to be chipped or broken.

تَهَتَّمَتْverb
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    to become chipped/brokenboth

    For teeth to become chipped or broken.

وتهتمت أسنانه أي تكسرت — and his teeth became chipped, meaning they broke.
مُتَهَتِّمُ الأَسْنَانِadjective
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    having chipped teethclassical

    Describing someone or something with chipped or broken teeth.

كلب عوى، متهتم الأسنان — a dog that howled, with chipped teeth.
الهَتَامَةُnoun
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    fragmentsclassical

    What has broken off or shattered from something.

الهَيْثَمُnoun
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    a thorny shrubclassical

    A type of thorny, bushy shrub belonging to the 'hamdh' plants.

والهيتم الجعد — and the bushy Al-Haytam.
الأَهْتَمُname
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    nicknameclassical

    A nickname given to Sinan bin Sumay bin Sinan because his incisor was chipped at the Battle of Al-Kullab.

والأهتم: لقب سنان بن سمي بن سنان بن خالد بن منقر لأنه هتمت ثنيته يوم الكلاب — And Al-Ahtam: the nickname of Sinan bin Sumay bin Sinan bin Khalid bin Munqir because his incisor was chipped on the day of Al-Kullab.
هَاتِمٌname
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    proper nameclassical

    A proper male name.

هُتَيْمٌname
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    proper name (diminutive)classical

    A proper male name, possibly a diminutive or truncated form of another name.

وأرى هتيما تصغير ترخيم — and I think Hatim is a truncated diminutive.

Parallel reading

هتم فاه يهتمه هتما: ألقى مقدم أسنانه.
He chipped his mouth, he chips it, a chipping: he cast the front of his teeth.
والهتم: انكسار الثنايا من أصولها خاصة، وقيل: من أطرافها
And Al-Hatmu: the breaking of the incisors from their roots specifically, and it was said: from their tips.
وهو أهتم بين الهتم وهتماء.
And he is Ahtam between Al-Hatmu and Hatma'.
والهتماء من المعزى: التي انكسرت ثنيتها.
And the Hatma' among goats is she whose incisor is broken.
وأهتمته إهتاما إذا كسرت أسنانه، وأقصمته إذا كسرت بعض سنه، وأشترته في العين، حتى قصم وهتم وشتر، وضربه فهتم فاه.
And he caused his teeth to be chipped (ihtaman) if his teeth were broken, and he broke off part of his tooth (aqsamahu) if he broke off part of his tooth, and he injured his eye (ashatarahu), until he broke, chipped, and injured, and he struck him and chipped his teeth.
وتهتمت أسنانه أي تكسرت.
And his teeth became chipped, meaning they broke.
وفي الحديث: أن أبا عبيدة كان أهتم الثنايا انقلعت ثناياه يوم أحد لما جذب بها الزردتين اللتين نشبتا في خد سيدنا رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم.
And in the Hadith: that Abu Ubaidah had chipped incisors; his incisors were pulled out on the day of Uhud when he pulled with them the two rings of mail that had stuck in the cheek of our master the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him.
وفي الحديث: نهى أن يضحى بهتماء ؛ هي التي انكسرت ثناياها من أصلها وانقلعت.
And in the Hadith: he forbade sacrificing a Hatma'; she is the one whose incisors are broken from their root and pulled out.
وتهتم الشيء: تكسر؛ قال جرير:
And a thing becomes chipped: it breaks; Jarir said:
إن الأراقم لن ينال قديمها ... كلب عوى، متهتم الأسنان
The old ones of the Arāqim will not be reached... by a howling dog, with chipped teeth.
والهتامة: ما تكسر من الشيء.
And Al-Hatāmah: what has broken off from a thing.
والهيتم: شجرة من شجر الحمض جعدة؛ حكى ذلك أبو حنيفة وقال: ذكر ذلك عن شبيل بن عزرة وكان راوية؛ وأنشد لرجل من بني يربوع:
And Al-Haytam: a shrub from the thorny shrubs of Al-Hamdh, bushy; Abu Hanifa narrated this and said: it was mentioned by Shibil bin 'Azrah, who was a narrator; and he recited for a man from Banu Yarbu':
رعت بقران الحزن روضا مواصلا ... عميما من الظلام، والهيتم الجعد
She grazed in the plains of Al-Huzn a continuous meadow... abundant from the darkness, and the bushy Al-Haytam.
والأهتم: لقب سنان بن سمي بن سنان بن خالد بن منقر لأنه هتمت ثنيته يوم الكلاب.
And Al-Ahtam: the nickname of Sinan bin Sumay bin Sinan bin Khalid bin Munqir because his incisor was chipped on the day of Al-Kullab.
وهاتم وهتيم: اسمان؛ قال ابن سيده: وأرى هتيما تصغير ترخيم.
And Hatim and Hutaym: two names; Ibn Sidah said: and I think Hutaym is a truncated diminutive.