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وضم

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to placing or laying something down, particularly meat on a wooden or reed structure. It extends to concepts of gathering, proximity, and even oppression or sexual intercourse.

Derived headwords

الوَضْمnoun
  1. 1.
    anything on which meat is placed, made of wood or a mat, to protect it from the groundboth

    anything on which meat is placed, made of wood or a mat, to protect it from the ground

وَضَمَverb
  1. 1.
    he placed it on the woḍmboth

    he placed it on the woḍm

وَضْمًاnoun
  1. 1.
    placing meatclassical

    The act of placing meat upon a 'waḍm' (meat rack).

أَوْضَمَverb
  1. 1.
    he made a woḍm for itboth

    he made a woḍm for it

وَضَمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    groupclassical

    A close-knit group or community, often referring to people.

  2. 2.
    group of peopleclassical

    A company of people, numbering two hundred or three hundred.

وَضِيمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    group of peopleclassical

    A company of people, numbering two hundred or three hundred.

  2. 2.
    settlementclassical

    A group of people whose numbers have decreased, settling upon another group.

  3. 3.
    foodclassical

    Food prepared for a funeral feast (ma'tam).

  4. 4.
    fodderclassical

    Similar to 'wathīmah' (fodder/pasture).

اسْتَوْضَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to oppressclassical

    To wrong or oppress someone.

اسْتَضَمَّهُverb
  1. 1.
    to oppressclassical

    To wrong or oppress someone.

تَوَضَّمَverb
  1. 1.
    to have intercourseclassical

    A man having sexual intercourse with a woman.

Parallel reading

كل شئ يجعل عليه اللحم من خشب أو بارية، يوقى به من الأرض.
Everything upon which meat is placed, made of wood or reed, by which it is protected from the ground.
ليس براعي إبل ولا غنم ولا بجزار على ظهر الوضم
He is not a tender of camels nor sheep, nor a butcher upon the meat rack.
وقد وضمت اللحم أضمه وضما، إذا وضعته على الوضم.
And I placed the meat, I place it with a placing, if you place it upon the meat rack.
وأو ضمته، إذا جعلت له وضما.
And I provided it with a rack, if you provided it with a meat rack.
أو ضمت اللحم وأو ضمت له.
I placed the meat and I provided it with a rack.
الحى وضمة واحدة، بالتسكين، أي جماعة متقاربة.
The tribe is one close-knit group, with a sukoon, meaning a proximate gathering.
الوضمة والوضيمة: صرم من الناس، يكون فيه مائتا إنسان أو ثلثمائة.
The waḍmah and the waḍīmah: a company of people, containing two hundred or three hundred individuals.
والوضيمة: القوم يقل عددهم فينزلون على قوم.
And the waḍīmah: a people whose numbers have diminished, who settle upon another people.
وقد وضم بنو فلان على بني فلان، إذا حلوا عليهم.
And the descendants of so-and-so settled upon the descendants of so-and-so, if they descended upon them.
والوضيمة مثل الوثيمة من الكلأ.
And the waḍīmah is like the wathīmah of fodder.
الفراء: الوضيمة: طعام المأتم.
Al-Farra': The waḍīmah: food for the funeral feast.
استوضمت الرجل، إذا ظلمته
I oppressed the man, if you wronged him.
واستضمته.
And I oppressed him.
وتوضم الرجل المرأة، إذا وقع عليها.
And the man had intercourse with the woman, if he lay with her.