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حسمه

Root entry · 12 derived lemmas

The root حسمه (ḥasama) primarily relates to cutting, severing, and decisively ending something. This extends to concepts of preventing, healing by cutting off disease, and decisive actions. It also encompasses terms for swiftness, continuous periods, and even specific places and people.

Derived headwords

حسمهverb
  1. 1.
    to cut offboth

    To cut something off decisively.

  2. 2.
    to stop bleedingclassical

    To cut a vein and then cauterize it to stop bleeding.

  3. 3.
    to cureclassical

    To cut off a disease by means of medicine.

  4. 4.
    to preventboth

    To prevent someone from having something.

يحسمهverb
  1. 1.
    he cuts offboth

    He decisively cuts something off.

فانحسمverb
  1. 1.
    it was cut offboth

    It became cut off or severed.

محسمةnoun
  1. 1.
    means of cutting offclassical

    A means or instrument for cutting off, particularly for disease.

مَحْسُومadjective
  1. 1.
    weanedclassical

    One who has been weaned from nursing.

  2. 2.
    poorly nourishedclassical

    A child who is poorly nourished.

حَسُومnoun
  1. 1.
    misfortuneclassical

    Misfortune or ill omen.

  2. 2.
    diligenceclassical

    Diligence or persistence in work.

حَسُومadjective
  1. 1.
    consecutiveclassical

    Consecutive, referring to days or nights.

  2. 2.
    ominousclassical

    Ominous nights that cut off good fortune from their inhabitants.

الحَيَسْمَانnoun
  1. 1.
    tall, dark-skinned personclassical

    A tall, dark-skinned person.

حَسْمَىname
  1. 1.
    place nameclassical

    A place in the desert with high mountains perpetually covered in dust.

  2. 2.
    tribe nameclassical

    A tribe of Judham.

الحُسَامnoun
  1. 1.
    sharp swordboth

    A sharp, cutting sword.

  2. 2.
    sword's edgeclassical

    The cutting edge or tip of a sword.

  3. 3.
    continuous nightsclassical

    Referring to continuous nights.

الحساميةname
  1. 1.
    mare's nameclassical

    The name of a mare belonging to Hamid ibn Harith al-Kilbi.

الحَسْمَىadjective
  1. 1.
    hairyclassical

    Abundant in hair.

Parallel reading

قطعه فانقطع
He cut it off, and it became cut off.
و العرق: قطعه ثم كواه لئلا يسيل دمه
And the vein: he cut it, then cauterized it so its blood would not flow.
و الداء: قطعه بالدواء
And the disease: cutting it off with medicine.
و فلانا الشيء: منعه إياه
And someone something: preventing him from it.
وهذا محسمة للداء، كمقعدة، أي: يقطعه
And this is a means of cutting off disease, like 'maq'adah', meaning: it cuts it off.
وكغراب: السيف القاطع
And like 'ghurab': the cutting sword.
أو طرفه الذي يضرب به
Or its edge with which one strikes.
و من الليالي: الدائمة
And from the nights: the continuous ones.
والمحسوم: من حسم رضاعه
And the 'maḥsūm': one weaned from his nursing.
والصبي السيئ الغذاء
And the poorly nourished child.
والحسوم، بالضم: الشؤم
And 'al-ḥusūm', with dammah: misfortune.
والدؤوب في العمل
And diligence in work.
ثمانية أيام حسوما
Eight consecutive days.
متتابعة، أو الليالي الحسوم: التي تحسم الخير عن أهلها
Consecutive, or the ominous nights: those that cut off good fortune from their inhabitants.
وأيام حسوم، وتضاف كذلك
And consecutive days, and it is added likewise.
والحيسمان، كريهقان: الضخم الآدم
And 'al-ḥaysamān', like 'rayḥaqān': the tall, dark-skinned person.
وابن إياس الخزاعي: صحابي
And Ibn Iyās al-Khuzā'ī: a companion.
وحسمى، بالكسر: أرض بالبادية، بها جبال شواهق لا يكاد القتام يفارقها
And 'Ḥusmā', with kasrah: a land in the desert, with towering mountains from which dust rarely departs.
وقبيلة جذام
And a tribe of Judham.
وكزفر: حسم بن ربيعة بن الحارث بن أسامة بن لؤي
And like 'zufr': Ḥasm ibn Rabī'ah ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Usāmah ibn Lu'ayy.
والحسامية: فرس حميد بن حريث الكلبي
And 'al-Ḥusāmiyyah': the mare of Ḥamīd ibn Ḥarīth al-Kilbī.
وكعنق وصرد وصاحب: مواضع
And like 'anq, ṣard, and ṣāḥib: places.
والحسمى، كعمري: الكثير الشعر
And 'al-Ḥusmā', like 'ʿumrī: the hairy one.