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هرشم

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes soft, porous, or easily excavated materials, particularly rocks and mountains. It can also refer to a type of abundant flock or a weak she-camel.

Derived headwords

الْهَرْشَمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Abundant flockclassical

    A large, abundant flock of sheep, and some have specified it for goats.

  2. 2.
    Weak she-camelclassical

    A weak or exhausted she-camel is also called a 'harshamah'.

الْهَرْشَمnoun
  1. 1.
    Soft rockclassical

    A soft, porous rock, especially one found in mountains that is easily excavated or hollowed out.

  2. 2.
    Soft mountainclassical

    A mountain that is soft and easily excavated.

  3. 3.
    Hard rockclassical

    Conversely, it can also refer to a hard, solid rock, especially in the context of digging a well.

هَرْشَمadjective
  1. 1.
    Soft and porousclassical

    Describing a mountain or rock that is soft, porous, and easily excavated.

  2. 2.
    Abundant in waterclassical

    Describing a mountain that is soft and has abundant water.

Parallel reading

الغزيرة من الغنم، وخص بعضهم به المعز.
The abundant flock of sheep, and some have specified it for goats.
ويقال للناقة الخوارة هرشمة.
And a weak she-camel is called a 'harshamah'.
والهرشم، بكسر الهاء وتشديد الميم: الحجر الرخو، وفي المحكم: الرخو النخر من الجبال اللين المحفر.
And 'al-harsham', with a kasra on the ha and shadda on the mim: is the soft rock, and in Al-Muhkam: the soft, porous rock of the mountains that is easily excavated.
يقال للجبل اللين المحفر هرشم؛
It is said of a soft, excavated mountain that it is 'harsham'.
هرشمة في جبل هرشم،
A soft rock in a soft mountain,
تبذل للجار ولابن العم
which is given to the neighbor and the cousin
وجبل هرشم: رقيق كثير الماء،
And a 'harsham' mountain: is soft and abundant in water,
وقيل: هو الحجر الصلب، ضد؛
And it was said: it is the hard rock, the opposite;
جيبت بحرف حجر هرشم
I was dug out by a piece of 'harsham' rock
فالهرشم هاهنا: الصلب لأن البئر لا تجاب إلا بحجر صلب،
So 'al-harsham' here: is the hard rock because a well is not dug except with hard rock,
ويروى: جوب لها بجبل؛
And it is narrated: 'dig for it in a mountain';
معناه رخو غزير أي في جبل.
Its meaning is soft and abundant, meaning in a mountain.