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هقم

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to intense hunger and excessive eating. It also extends to descriptions of the sea and a specific type of long ostrich, with some related onomatopoeic sounds.

Derived headwords

الهَقَمnoun
  1. 1.
    man of intense hungerclassical

    A man who is severely hungry.

هَقِمَverb
  1. 1.
    to be intensely hungryclassical

    To experience severe hunger.

هَقْمًاnoun
  1. 1.
    intense hungerclassical

    The state or experience of severe hunger.

الهَقَمnoun
  1. 1.
    man of excessive eatingclassical

    A man who eats a great deal.

الهَقَمnoun
  1. 1.
    seaclassical

    The sea.

الهَيْقَمnoun
  1. 1.
    long ostrichclassical

    A male ostrich that is tall.

الهَيْقَمnoun
  1. 1.
    sound of the seaclassical

    The sound made by the sea.

الهَيْقَمnoun
  1. 1.
    sound of swallowingclassical

    The sound of swallowing a mouthful of food.

يَتَهَقَّمُverb
  1. 1.
    to swallow greedilymodern

    To swallow food rapidly and perhaps greedily.

Parallel reading

الرجل الشديد الجوع
The man of intense hunger.
وقد هقم بالكسر هقما
And he was intensely hungry, with a kasra, experiencing intense hunger.
الرجل الكثير الأكل
The man of excessive eating.
والهيقم: الظليم الطويل
And the Hayqam: the tall ostrich.
ويقال هو الهيق والميم زائدة
And it is said to be al-Hayq, with the mim being an addition.
والهيقم: حكاية صوت البحر
And the Hayqam: a representation of the sound of the sea.
كالبحر يدعوا هيقما وهيقما
Like the sea calling out 'hayqaman, hayqaman'.
وصوت ابتلاع اللقمة
And the sound of swallowing a mouthful.
وفلان يتهقم الطعام، إذا ابتلع
And so-and-so swallows food greedily, if he swallows it.