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ءزم

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns concepts of hardship, constriction, and holding back. It extends to meanings of biting, clinging, and narrow passages.

Derived headwords

الأَزَمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    hardshipboth

    A severe difficulty, hardship, or scarcity, often referring to drought.

  2. 2.
    famineclassical

    A period of extreme scarcity, particularly of food, that can be devastating.

أَزَمَverb
  1. 1.
    he refrained from itboth

    he refrained from it

أَزِمَverb
  1. 1.
    he refrained from itboth

    he refrained from it

آزِمadjective
  1. 1.
    he refrained from itboth

    he refrained from it

أَزَمَverb
  1. 1.
    he refrained from itboth

    he refrained from it

أَزْمnoun
  1. 1.
    he refrained from itboth

    he refrained from it

تَأَزَّمَverb
  1. 1.
    to reside longclassical

    For a group of people to stay in their dwelling for an extended period.

مَأْزِمnoun
  1. 1.
    a narrow passboth

    a narrow pass

  2. 2.
    any narrow path between two mountainsboth

    any narrow path between two mountains

  3. 3.
    a battlefieldboth

    a battlefield

المَأْزِمَيْنnoun
  1. 1.
    the two narrow passesclassical

    Specifically refers to the two narrow passages between Muzdalifah and Mina, or between Muzdalifah and Arafat, in the context of Hajj.

Parallel reading

الأزمة: الشدة والقحط.
Al-azmah: hardship and drought.
يقال: أصابتهم سنة أزمتهم أزما، أي استأصلتهم.
It is said: a year afflicted them, devastating them, meaning it uprooted them.
وأ زم علينا الدهر يأزم أزما، أي اشتد وقل خيره.
And time afflicted us, becoming severe, meaning its goodness diminished.
ويقال أيضا: أزم الرجل بصاحبه، إذا لزمه.
And it is also said: a man clung to his companion, if he stuck closely to him.
وأزمه أيضا، أي عضه.
And it also meant to bite him, meaning to bite him.
وأزم عن الشئ، أي أمسك عنه.
And he refrained from the thing, meaning he held back from it.
قال أبو زيد: الآزم: الذى ضم شفتيه.
Abu Zayd said: Al-aazim: he who holds his lips together.
فقال: الازم: يعنى الحمية.
He replied: Al-aazim: meaning restraint (dietary).
أزمت الخيظ، إذا فتلته، بالزاي والراء جميعا.
I twisted the rope, if you twist it, with both zayn and ra.
والأزم ضرب من الضفر.
And al-azm is a type of braiding.
وتأزم القوم دارهم، إذا أطالوا الإقامة بها.
And the people resided long in their dwelling, if they stayed in it for an extended period.
والمأزم: المضيق، مثل المأزل.
And al-ma'zam: the narrow passage, like al-ma'zal.
هذا طريق يأزم المآزما وعضوات تمشق اللهازما
This is a path that constricts the narrow passages, and branches that strike the thorny bushes.
والمأزم: كل طريق ضيق بين جبلين، وموضع الحرب أيضا مأزم.
And al-ma'zam: every narrow path between two mountains, and a place of war is also a ma'zam.
المأزم في سند، مضيق بين جمع وعرفة.
Al-ma'zam is in the pass, a narrow place between Muzdalifah and Arafat.
وفي الحديث: " بين المأزمين ".
And in the Hadith: 'between the two narrow passes'.
ومقامهن (1) إذا حبسن بمأزم ضيق ألف وصدهن الاخشب
And their standing, if they were held back in a narrow pass, they would find it confining and the mountains blocking them.