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دلم

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of blackness or darkness, extending to descriptions of people, animals, and objects. It also encompasses terms for specific groups of people, abstract concepts like cunning, and collective nouns for insects and birds.

Derived headwords

الأدلمadjective
  1. 1.
    blackboth

    Describing a person or a donkey that is black in color.

ادلامverb
  1. 1.
    to become blackclassical

    The process of a person or a donkey becoming black.

ادليماماnoun
  1. 1.
    becoming blackclassical

    The masdar (verbal noun) for the verb 'to become black'.

أبو دلامةname
  1. 1.
    Abu Dlamaboth

    A kunya (patronymic or nickname) for a specific man.

الديلمnoun
  1. 1.
    a people/nationboth

    a people/nation

دلمnoun
  1. 1.
    blacknessclassical

    The quality or state of being black.

Parallel reading

الأدلم من الرجال والحمير: الأسود.
Al-Adlam from men and donkeys: the black.
وقد ادلام الرجل والحمار ادليماما.
And a man and a donkey have become black with a becoming black.
وأبو دلامة: كنية رجل.
And Abu Dlama: the kunya of a man.
والديلم: جيل من الناس.
And Al-Daylam: a generation of people.
والديلم: الداهية.
And Al-Daylam: the cunning one.
والديلم والزفيرا وكلها دواه.
And Al-Daylam and Al-Zafira, and all of them are poisons/cunning things.
والديلم في قول عنترة: شربت بماء الدحرضين فأصبحت زوراء تنفر عن حياض الديلم
And Al-Daylam in the saying of Antara: I drank from the water of Al-Dahridhayn and became disoriented, fleeing from the watering places of Al-Daylam.
يقال: هم ضبة، لأنهم أو عامتهم دلم
It is said: they are Dabba, because they or most of them are black.
ويقال الديلم: الاعداء.
And it is said Al-Daylam: the enemies.
والديلم: الجماعة من الناس.
And Al-Daylam: the group of people.
والديلم: مجتمع النمل والقردان عند أعقار الحياض وأعطان الإبل.
And Al-Daylam: the gathering of ants and ticks at the bases of water basins and the resting places of camels.
والديلم: ذكر الدراج.
And Al-Daylam: the male francolin.