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غدم

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of eating with roughness, greed, or voracity. It extends to consuming completely, and also relates to specific types of plants and fertile land.

Derived headwords

غذَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to eat greedilyboth

    To eat with roughness, voracity, and haste.

  2. 2.
    to consume completelyclassical

    To drink or eat all of something, leaving nothing behind.

غذمًاnoun
  1. 1.
    greedy eatingclassical

    The act of eating with roughness and voracity.

غذمذمًاnoun
  1. 1.
    in bulkclassical

    Eating or taking something in large, unmeasured quantities; wholesale.

تكريرother
  1. 1.
    intensificationclassical

    The repetition of a word or concept, indicating multiplicity or intensity.

الغذمnoun
  1. 1.
    rough eatingclassical

    The act of eating with harshness and greed.

  2. 2.
    plantclassical

    A type of plant or herb.

يتغذَّمُverb
  1. 1.
    to eat a lotclassical

    To be a person who eats a great deal, consuming everything.

اغتذمَverb
  1. 1.
    to drink completelyclassical

    Used for a young animal drinking all the milk from its mother's udder.

الغذامةnoun
  1. 1.
    something from milkclassical

    A substance or product derived from milk.

الغذيمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    fertile landclassical

    Land that produces or grows the plant known as 'al-ghadhm'.

Parallel reading

غذمت له من المال غذما، مثل غثمت.
I took from the money greedily, like 'ghathamt'.
ثقال الجفان والحلوم رحاهم رحى الماء يكتالون كيلا غذمذما
Heavy are the platters and their minds are like the millstone of water, they measure by the measure of 'ghadhmadhman' (i.e., wholesale).
والغذم: الأكل بجفاء وشدة.
And 'al-ghadhm' is eating with roughness and intensity.
وقد غذمه بالكسر.
And he ate it with roughness (using the verb form with kasra).
وهو يتغذم كل شئ، إذا كان كثير الأكل.
And he 'yataghadham's everything, if he is a big eater.
اغتذم الفصيل ما في ضرع أمه، أي شرب جميع ما فيه.
The young camel 'ightadhm'ed what was in its mother's udder, meaning it drank all that was in it.
والغذامة بالضم: شئ من اللبن.
And 'al-ghadhāmah' (with damma) is something from milk.
والغذم بالتحريك: نبت.
And 'al-ghadhm' (with haraka) is a plant.
في عثعت ينبت الحوذان والغذما
In 'uth'ath' grows the hawthorn and 'al-ghadhma'.
والغذيمة: الارض تنبت الغذم.
And 'al-ghadheemah' is the land that grows 'al-ghadhm'.
يقال: حلوا في غذيمة منكرة.
It is said: They settled in a terrible 'ghadheemah' (fertile land).