اللحم

Root entry · 37 derived lemmas

The root اللحم (al-laḥm) primarily relates to flesh, meat, and the physical body. It extends to concepts of kinship, the core or essence of something, and intense conflict or battle. It also encompasses actions related to preparing, eating, or selling meat, as well as the act of weaving and the binding or healing of wounds.

Derived headwords

اللَّحْمnoun

1.
Flesh, meatboth
The soft tissue of the body, especially that of animals used as food.
2.
Core, essenceclassical
The central or most important part of something.

أَلْحُمnoun

1.
Plural of flesh/meatclassical
A plural form for 'flesh' or 'meat'.

لُحُومnoun

1.
Plural of flesh/meatboth
A plural form for 'flesh' or 'meat'.

لِحَامnoun

1.
Plural of flesh/meatclassical
A plural form for 'flesh' or 'meat'.

لُحْمَانnoun

1.
Plural of flesh/meatclassical
A plural form for 'flesh' or 'meat'.

لُحْمَةnoun

1.
Piece of fleshboth
A piece or portion of flesh or meat.
2.
Kinship, relationclassical
Close relationship by blood or family ties.
3.
Warp threadclassical
The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric, crossed by the weft.
4.
Prey for a bird of preyclassical
What a falcon or hawk eats from its prey.

مَلْحَمَةnoun

1.
Great battleboth
A large-scale and bloody battle or war.
2.
Epic poemclassical
A long narrative poem, typically one relating the deeds of a heroic figure or explaining historical or supernatural phenomena.

لَحِيمadjective

1.
Fatty, fleshyclassical
Having a lot of flesh or fat; corpulent.

لَحِيمnoun

1.
Lionclassical
A lion.

لَحِيمadjective

1.
Greedy for meatclassical
One who is very desirous of or eats meat greedily.

لَحِيمnoun

1.
Place of gossipclassical
A house or place where people frequently engage in backbiting or gossip.

لَاحِمverb

1.
To eat meatclassical
To eat meat, especially habitually or with desire.

لَاحِمadjective

1.
Eater of meatclassical
One who eats meat.

مُلْحِمadjective

1.
Provider of meatclassical
One who provides or serves meat.

ذُو لَحْمadjective

1.
Fleshy, corpulentclassical
Having much flesh; corpulent or well-built.

لَحَّامnoun

1.
Meat sellerboth
A seller of meat.

لِحْمَةnoun

1.
Scalpclassical
The skin of the head.

مَا يَلِي اللَّحْمnoun

1.
Inner scalp layerclassical
The layer of the scalp that is adjacent to the flesh beneath.

مُتَلَاحِمَةadjective

1.
Deep woundclassical
A wound that penetrates deeply into the flesh but does not reach the periosteum.
2.
Constricted vulvaclassical
A woman whose vaginal opening is narrow or closed.

أَلْحَمَverb

1.
To allow insultclassical
To give someone the opportunity to insult or criticize you.
2.
To stop movingclassical
For an animal to become immobile and require beating to move.
3.
To weaveclassical
To weave a fabric.
4.
To have abundant meatclassical
For a household to have a lot of meat available.
5.
To bear grainclassical
For a plant to develop seeds or grain.

أَحْكَمَ الأَمْرverb

1.
To perfect the matterclassical
To bring a matter to completion or perfection.

عَرَّقَ العَظْمverb

1.
To scrape the boneclassical
To remove the flesh from a bone down to the bone itself.

لَأَمَ الفِضَّةverb

1.
To solder silverclassical
For a silversmith to solder or join pieces of silver.

مَنَعَverb

1.
To provide meatclassical
To give or provide meat to someone.

نَشِبَ فِي المَكَانverb

1.
To become stuckclassical
To become lodged or stuck in a place.

لَحِيمadjective

1.
Similar, matchingclassical
Being alike or matching another in appearance or character.

أَبُو اللَّحَّامname

1.
Poet's epithetclassical
An epithet for the poet Abu al-Lahham al-Taghlibi.

اسْتَلْحَمَ الطَّرِيقverb

1.
To follow the roadclassical
To follow a road or path.
2.
To widen the roadclassical
For a road to become wide or spacious.

اسْتُلْحِمَverb

1.
To be overwhelmed in battleclassical
To be overcome or fall into great danger during combat.

حَبْل مَلَاحِمnoun

1.
Strongly twisted ropeclassical
A rope that is very tightly twisted.

مُلْحِمnoun

1.
Type of garmentclassical
A kind of woven cloth or garment.
2.
One attached to peopleclassical
Someone who is closely associated or attached to a group of people.

قَتِيلnoun

1.
The slainclassical
A slain person, a casualty.

لُحِمَverb

1.
To be slainclassical
To be killed or slain.

نَبِيّ المَلْحَمَةname

1.
Prophet of battleclassical
A prophet associated with warfare or conflict.
2.
Prophet of reconciliationclassical
A prophet who brings peace and unity among people.

الْتَحَمَ الجُرْحverb

1.
Wound healedboth
For a wound to close up and begin to heal.

الْتَحَمَت الحَرْبverb

1.
War intensifiedclassical
For a war or conflict to become severe or intense.

أَلْحَمَ مَا أَسْدَيْتverb

1.
To complete what was startedclassical
To finish or bring to completion what one has begun.

Parallel reading

واللحمة: القطعة منه، وبالضم: القرابة، وما سدي به بين سدى الثوب، وما يطعمه البازي مما يصيده، ويفتح فيهما.

And al-luḥmah: a piece of it (flesh), and with dammah: kinship, and what is used to weave between the warp threads of a garment, and what a falcon eats from its prey.

والملحمة: الوقعة العظيمة القتل.

And al-malḥamah: a great battle with much killing.

ولحم كل شيء: لبه.

And the flesh of everything: its core or essence.

وككتف: الأسد، كالمستلحم، والكثير لحم الجسد، كاللحيم، والأكول اللحم القرم إليه، وفعلهما ككرم وعلم، والبيت يغتاب فيه الناس كثيرا، وبه فسر: "إن الله يبغض البيت اللحم".

And like 'katif': the lion, like al-mustalḥim; and abundant flesh of the body, like al-laḥīm; and one greedy for meat, and their verb forms are like 'karuma' and 'alima'; and a house where people gossip a lot, and concerning this it is interpreted: 'Indeed, Allah detests the house of gossip (al-laḥm)'.

وباز لاحم ولحم: يأكله، أو يشتهيه ج: لواحم وكمحسن: مطعمه.

And a falcon that eats meat (lāḥim) and desires it (laḥḥim): eats it, or desires it; its plural is lawāḥim; and like 'muḥsin': its food provider.

وكمكرم: من يطعم اللحم.

And like 'mukrim': one who feeds meat.

وكأمير وصاحب: ذو لحم، وكشداد: بائعه.

And like 'amīr' and 'ṣāḥib': having flesh (corpulent); and like 'shaddād': its seller.

ولحمة جلدة الرأس، بالضم: ما يلي اللحم.

And luḥmat the skin of the head, with dammah: what is adjacent to the flesh.

وشجة متلاحمة: أخذت فيه ولم تبلغ السمحاق.

And a mutalāḥimah wound: it penetrated into it (the flesh) but did not reach the periosteum.

وامرأة متلاحمة: ضيقة ملاحم الفرج، أو رتقاء.

And a mutalāḥimah woman: narrow in the vaginal opening, or imperforate.

وألحمه عرض فلان: أمكنه منه يشتمه، و الدابة: وقفت ولم تبرح، فاحتيجت إلى الضرب، و الثوب: نسجه، و فلان: كثر في بيته اللحم و الزرع: صار فيه حب.

And 'alḥama' someone's honor: it became possible to insult him; and the animal: it stopped and did not move, so it needed to be beaten; and the garment: he wove it; and a person: meat became abundant in his house; and the crop: it developed grain.

ولحم الأمر، كنصر: أحكمه، و العظم: عرقه، و الصائغ الفضة: لأمها.

And 'laḥḥama' the matter, like 'naṣara': he perfected it; and the bone: he scraped it; and the silversmith the silver: he soldered it.

وكمنع: أطعم اللحم، فهو لاحم.

And like 'mana'a': he provided meat, so he is a provider of meat (lāḥim).

وكعلم: نشب في المكان.

And like 'alima': it became stuck in the place.

وهذا لحيم هذا: وفقه وشكله.

And this is the laḥīm of that: it matches it in fortune and form.

وأبو اللحام التغلبي، كشداد: شاعر.

And Abū al-Laḥḥām al-Taghlibī, like 'shaddād': a poet.

واستلحم الطريق: تبعه، أو تبع أوسعه، و الطريق: اتسع.

And 'istalḥama' the road: he followed it, or followed its widest part; and the road: it widened.

واستلحم، مجهولا: روهق في القتال.

And 'ustulḥima', passively: he fell into great danger in the battle.

وحبل ملاحم، بفتح الحاء: شديد الفتل.

And ḥabl malāḥim, with fatḥah on the ḥā': a strongly twisted rope.

وكمكرم: جنس من الثياب، والملصق بالقوم.

And like 'mukram': a type of garment, and one attached to people.

وكأمير: القتيل، وقد لحم، كعني.

And like 'amīr': the slain person, and he was slain, like 'unīya.

ونبي الملحمة أي: نبي القتال، أو نبي الصلاح وتأليف الناس، كأنه يؤلف أمر الأمة.

And Nabi al-Malḥamah means: a prophet of battle, or a prophet of righteousness and uniting people, as if he unites the affairs of the community.

والتحم الجرح للبرء: التأم، و الحرب: اشتدت.

And the wound 'iltaḥama' for healing: it healed, and the war: it intensified.

وألحم ما أسديت: تمم ما بدأت.

And 'alḥama' what you have done: complete what you have started.