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جلم

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

The root جلم primarily relates to cutting, scraping, or taking away parts of something. It extends to the concept of taking something entirely, and also refers to specific tools and parts of an animal's carcass.

Derived headwords

جَلَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to cutboth

    To cut something, to sever it.

  2. 2.
    to scrape meatclassical

    To scrape the meat off bones, specifically referring to a carcass.

جَلْمًاnoun
  1. 1.
    cuttingboth

    The act of cutting or severing.

جَلَمَتُهُnoun
  1. 1.
    its entiretyclassical

    The whole of something, taken completely.

جُلْمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    meat of carcassclassical

    The meat of a carcass, taken collectively.

  2. 2.
    skin of sheepclassical

    The flayed skin of a sheep, without its stuffing or limbs.

الجَلَمnoun
  1. 1.
    that with which one shearsboth

    that with which one shears

جَلَامnoun
  1. 1.
    young camelclassical

    A young camel, or a young animal in general.

Parallel reading

جلمت الشئ جلما، أي قطعته.
I cut the thing, meaning I severed it.
وجلمت الجزور أجلمها جلما، إذا أخذت ما على عظامها من اللحم.
And I scraped the camel's carcass, I scrape it, meaning I took the meat off its bones.
وأخذت الشئ بجلمته ساكنة اللام، إذا أخذته أجمع.
And I took the thing with its 'jalam' (entirety), meaning I took it all.
وهذه جلمة الجزور بالتحريك، أي لحمها أجمع.
And this is the 'jalamah' of the camel's carcass (with vowel), meaning all of its meat.
وجلمة الشاة: مسلوختها، بلا حشو ولا قوائم.
And the 'jalamah' of the sheep is its skin, without stuffing or limbs.
والجلم: الذى يجز به.
And the 'jalam' is that by which one shears.
وهما جلمان.
And they are two shears.
والجلام بالكسر. الجداء
And the 'jalam' (with kasr) is the young camel.
سواهم جذعانها كالجلام قد اقرح منها القياد النسورا
Their young camels were like the 'jalam' (young camels), the sores on them had already festered the eagles.