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رمث

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns plants, specifically a type of desert herbage, and extends to related concepts like the consumption of this plant by camels, and the physical act of smoothing or repairing something.

Derived headwords

الرَّمْثnoun
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    Desert herbageboth

    A type of desert pasture, particularly favored by camels, which is a kind of saltwort (حمض).

الرَّمَثnoun
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    Wood for raftsclassical

    Wood that is joined together and used to construct rafts for sailing on the sea.

أَرْمَاثnoun
  1. 1.
    Raftsclassical

    The plural of رمث (wood for rafts), referring to the constructed rafts themselves.

رَمَثَتْverb
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    To suffer from eating ramthclassical

    When camels eat the plant called رمث and consequently fall ill or complain.

رَمِثَةadjective
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    Ill from ramthclassical

    Camels that have eaten the plant رمث and are suffering from it.

رَمَاثَىadjective
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    Ill from ramth (plural)classical

    The plural form of رمثة, referring to multiple camels suffering from eating the plant رمث.

تَرْمِيثverb
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    To leave milk in the udderclassical

    The act of leaving a small amount of milk remaining in a camel's udder after milking.

أَرْمَثَverb
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    To leave milk in the udderclassical

    An alternative form of the verb ترميث, meaning to leave some milk in the udder.

المُرْمِثnoun
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    One who leaves milkclassical

    The one who leaves a remnant of milk in the udder, or the udder itself from which milk has been left.

رَمَثَverb
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    To repair or smoothclassical

    To mend, repair, or smooth something with one's hands.

أَرْمَامnoun
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    Ropesclassical

    A plural form referring to ropes, possibly implying ropes made from plant fibers.

Parallel reading

الرمث، بالكسر: مرعى من مراعى الابل، وهو من الحمض.
Al-ramth (with kasra): a pasture from the pastures of camels, and it is a type of saltwort.
والرمث، بالتحريك: خشب يضم بعضه إلى بعض ويركب في البحر، والجمع أرماث.
And al-ramath (with haraka): wood that is joined together and assembled on the sea, and its plural is armath.
تمنيت من حبي علية أننا * على رمث في البحر ليس لنا وفر
I wished, out of my love for 'Alia, that we were on a raft at sea with no provisions.
والرمث أيضا: أن تأكل الإبل الرمث فتشتكي عنه.
And al-ramth also: is when camels eat the ramth and complain about it.
وقد رمثت بالكسر، وهي إبل رمثة ورماثى.
And they became ill from ramth (with kasra), and they are ramth-ill camels and many ramth-ill camels.
الرمث: بقية اللبن في الضرع.
Al-ramth: the remainder of the milk in the udder.
يقال رمثت في الضرع ترميثا وأرمثت أيضا، إذا أبقيت بها شيئا.
It is said: she left milk in the udder (tarmithan) and she also left milk (armat), if she left something in it.
وشارك أهل الفصيل الفصي‍ * ل في الام وامتكها المرمث
And the people of the young camel shared with the young camel * in its mother and the one who left milk in the udder milked it.
ورمثت الشئ: أصلحته ومسحته بيدى.
And I mended the thing: I repaired it and smoothed it with my hands.
وأخ رمثت رويسه * ونصحته في الحرب نصحا
And a brother whose head I mended * and I advised him in war with good advice.
وحبل أرماث، أي أرمام.
And a rope of armath, meaning ropes.