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الءلم

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of pain, suffering, and affliction. It extends to related ideas of causing pain, experiencing pain, and in a more figurative sense, meanness or baseness.

Derived headwords

الألمnoun
  1. 1.
    Painboth

    Physical or emotional suffering; ache or hurt.

الأيلمةnoun
  1. 1.
    Painclassical

    A specific instance or type of pain, often used as a plural form.

  2. 2.
    Movementclassical

    The act of moving or being moved.

  3. 3.
    Soundclassical

    Noise or vocalization.

ألمverb
  1. 1.
    To feel painboth

    To experience physical or emotional suffering.

أَلِمَverb
  1. 1.
    To be in painclassical

    To suffer from pain or affliction.

أَلِمٌadjective
  1. 1.
    Painfulclassical

    Experiencing pain; suffering.

تَأَلَّمَverb
  1. 1.
    To sufferboth

    To experience pain, distress, or hardship.

آلَمَverb
  1. 1.
    To cause painboth

    To inflict suffering or hurt upon someone.

الأليمadjective
  1. 1.
    Painfulboth

    Causing great pain or suffering.

  2. 2.
    Severely painfulclassical

    Describing torment or punishment whose pain reaches the utmost degree.

الألومةnoun
  1. 1.
    Meannessclassical

    Baseness, lowliness, or ignobility of character.

  2. 2.
    Basenessclassical

    A lack of noble qualities; ignoble conduct.

آلامnoun
  1. 1.
    Painsboth

    Plural of 'al-alam', referring to multiple instances of pain or suffering.

Parallel reading

الألم، محركة: الوجع
Al-alam, with harakah on the first letter: pain, ache.
كالأيلمة ج: آلام
Like al-aylamah, plural: aalam.
ألم، كفرح، فهو ألم
Alima, like faraha, so he is suffering from pain.
وتألم وآلمته
And he suffered, and it caused him pain.
والأليم: المؤلم
And al-aleem: the one who causes pain.
ومن العذاب: الذي يبلغ إيجاعه غاية البلوغ
And from punishment: that whose pain reaches the utmost degree of reaching.
والألومة: اللؤم والخسة
And al-uloomah: meanness and baseness.
وبلا لام: ع
And without the letter lam: 'ayn (referring to a different root or meaning).
والأيلمة: الحركة، والصوت
And al-aylamah: movement, and sound.