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جمش

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of being smooth, hairless, or barren, often applied to land or a person's body. It can also describe a barren year lacking vegetation.

Derived headwords

جَمَشَverb
  1. 1.
    to shaveboth

    To remove hair from the body, making it smooth.

جَمْشnoun
  1. 1.
    shavingboth

    The act of removing hair, resulting in smoothness.

جَمِيشadjective
  1. 1.
    shavedboth

    Having had hair removed, smooth.

  2. 2.
    barrenclassical

    Lacking vegetation or growth.

الجَمِيشnoun
  1. 1.
    Al-jamīsh: the place where there is no vegetationboth

    Al-jamīsh: the place where there is no vegetation

جَمُوشadjective
  1. 1.
    barrenclassical

    Describing a year or season that lacks vegetation.

Parallel reading

ركب جميش: أي حليق.
A shaved mount: meaning smooth/hairless.
وقد جمشته جمشا.
And I shaved it (made it smooth).
والجميش: المكان لا نبت فيه.
And al-Jamish: a place with no vegetation.
وفى الحديث: " بخبت الجميش ".
And in the Hadith: 'In the barren plain of al-Jamish'.
والخبت: المفارة وإنما قيل له جميش لانه لا نبت فيه كأنه حليق.
And al-Khabt is a barren plain, and it was called Jamish because it has no vegetation, as if it were shaved.
وسنة جموش: إذا احتلقت النبت.
And a barren year (sanah jamush): if it strips the vegetation.
دقا كرقش الوضم المرفوش * أو كاحتلاق النورة الجموش
Crushing like the markings of a patched hide * Or like the stripping of the barren bloom.