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الزمح

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes negative personal attributes, encompassing traits like meanness, weakness, and ugliness. It also extends to terms for a specific type of bird that abducts children and the act of killing.

Derived headwords

الزَّمْحnoun
  1. 1.
    mean personboth

    A person characterized by meanness, baseness, or ignobility.

  2. 2.
    weak personboth

    Someone who is physically or characteristically weak.

  3. 3.
    short, ugly personboth

    A person who is short in stature and unattractive in appearance.

  4. 4.
    ugly black personclassical

    An unattractive person with dark complexion.

الزَّوْمَحnoun
  1. 1.
    ugly black personclassical

    An unattractive person with dark complexion, similar to 'al-zamḥ'.

الزَّمْحَنnoun
  1. 1.
    ugly black personclassical

    An unattractive person with dark complexion, similar to 'al-zamḥ'.

سِبَحْلadjective
  1. 1.
    bad-tempered, stingyclassical

    Describes someone with a poor disposition and a miserly nature.

سِبَحْلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    bad temper, stinginessclassical

    The state or quality of being bad-tempered and stingy.

كُرْمَانnoun
  1. 1.
    child-snatching birdclassical

    A type of bird known for taking infants from their cradles.

تَلْزِيحverb
  1. 1.
    to killclassical

    The act of causing death to someone or something.

زَامِحnoun
  1. 1.
    boil, abscessboth

    A painful swelling on the skin, containing pus.

  2. 2.
    shoulder blade areaclassical

    A part of the body, specifically the area of the shoulder blade, used as a measure of distance or location.

Parallel reading

الزَّمْحُ: اللَّئِيمُ، والضَّعِيفُ، والقَصِيرُ الدَّمِيمُ، والأسْوَدُ القَبِيحُ
Al-zamḥ: the mean, the weak, the short ugly one, and the ugly black one.
كالزَّوْمَحِ والزَّمْحَنِ، كَسِبَحْلٍ وسِبَحْلَةٍ: السَّيِّءُ الخُلُقِ البَخِيلُ.
Like al-zūmaḥ and al-zamḥan, like sibḥal and sibḥalah: the bad-tempered, the stingy.
وكُرْمَانَ: طَائِرٌ يَأْخُذُ الصَّبِيَّ مِنْ مَهْدِهِ.
And kurmān: a bird that takes a child from its cradle.
والتَّلْزِيحُ: قَتْلُهُ.
And al-talzīḥ: killing it.
والزَّامِحُ: الدَّمْلُ، اسْمٌ كَالكَاهِلِ.
And al-zāmiḥ: the boil, a name like al-kāhil (shoulder blade area).