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صمغ

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns various types of tree sap and gums, particularly the gum arabic. It also extends to related concepts like sticky substances and anatomical terms.

Derived headwords

الصَّمْغnoun
  1. 1.
    one of the gums of treesboth

    one of the gums of trees

صَمْغnoun
  1. 1.
    Gum arabicboth

    Specifically refers to the gum derived from the acacia tree (طلح).

صَمْغَةnoun
  1. 1.
    a piece of itboth

    a piece of it

مُصَمَّغadjective
  1. 1.
    Made with gumclassical

    Ink that is made using gum.

الصَّامِغَانnoun
  1. 1.
    Sides of the mouthclassical

    The two sides or corners of the mouth.

اسْتَصْمَغَverb
  1. 1.
    To extract sapclassical

    To make incisions in a tree to extract its sap, similar to how aloe or صبر (a type of resin) is obtained.

Parallel reading

الصمغ: واحد صموغ الأشجار
Gum: the singular of the gums of trees.
وأما الذي يقال له الصمغ العربي فصمغ الطلح
As for what is called gum arabic, it is the gum of the acacia tree.
والقطعة منه صمغة
And a piece of it is a صمغة (lump of gum).
وفي المثل: " تركته على مثل مقرف الصمغة "
And in the proverb: 'I left him like the scraped residue of a صمغة (lump of gum)'.
وذلك إذا لم تترك له شيئا، لأنها تقتلع من شجرتها حتى لا تبقى عليها علقة.
And that is when nothing is left for him, because it (the gum) is torn from its tree so that no trace remains on it.
وحبر مصمغ، أي متخذ منه.
And ink مصمغ (made with gum), meaning made from it.
والصامغان: جانبا الفم.
And the صامغان (sides of the mouth): the two sides of the mouth.
واستصمغت الصاب، وذلك أن تشرط شجره ليخرج منه شئ مرفينا عقد كالصبر.
And I extracted the sap (استصمغت) from the soap tree, which is done by making incisions in its tree so that something emerges, coagulating like aloe resin.