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غتم

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes intense heat that is oppressive and suffocating. It also extends to the concept of being inarticulate or unable to speak clearly, akin to a speech impediment.

Derived headwords

الغتمnoun
  1. 1.
    intense heatclassical

    Extreme heat that is so severe it feels like it's taking one's breath away.

غتمverb
  1. 1.
    to be intensely hotclassical

    To experience extreme heat that is oppressive and difficult to bear.

غتمةnoun
  1. 1.
    inarticulatenessclassical

    A state of being unable to speak clearly or articulate words properly; muteness or speech impediment.

الأغتمadjective
  1. 1.
    inarticulateclassical

    One who is unable to speak clearly or articulate anything properly; mute or having a speech impediment.

غتمnoun
  1. 1.
    inarticulate peopleclassical

    A collective noun referring to people who are inarticulate or unable to speak clearly.

غتمىadjective
  1. 1.
    inarticulateclassical

    Describing a man who is inarticulate or unable to speak clearly.

Parallel reading

الغتم: شدة الحر الذي يكاد يأخذ بالنفس.
Al-ghutm: The intensity of heat that almost takes the breath away.
حرقها حمض بلاد فل وغتم نجم غير مستقل
Its burning is the sourness of the lands of Fil, and the heat of a star not yet risen high.
قوله " غير مستقل " أي غير مرتفع لثبات الحر المنسوب إليه
His saying 'not yet risen high' means not elevated, due to the constancy of the heat attributed to it.
وإنما يشتد الحر عند طلوع الشعرى التى في الجوزاء.
And the heat only intensifies upon the rising of Al-Shi'ra, which is in Gemini.
والغتمة: العجمة.
And Al-ghutmāh: Inarticulateness.
والأغتم: الذي لا يفصح شيئا
And Al-aghtam: He who does not speak clearly at all.
والجمع غتم.
And the plural is ghum.
ورجل غتمى.
And a man who is inarticulate.