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سمن

Root entry · 15 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of fatness, richness, and abundance, particularly related to food and animal husbandry. It extends to meanings of fattening, enriching, and even cooling or preserving food.

Derived headwords

سَمِنَverb
  1. 1.
    the man fattened the foodboth

    the man fattened the food

  2. 2.
    he supplied them with fatboth

    he supplied them with fat

  3. 3.
    he became fatboth

    he became fat

سَمْنnoun
  1. 1.
    the man fattened the foodboth

    the man fattened the food

  2. 2.
    he supplied them with fatboth

    he supplied them with fat

  3. 3.
    he became fatboth

    he became fat

سَمِنadjective
  1. 1.
    the man fattened the foodboth

    the man fattened the food

  2. 2.
    he supplied them with fatboth

    he supplied them with fat

  3. 3.
    he became fatboth

    he became fat

سَمَّنَverb
  1. 1.
    the man fattened the foodboth

    the man fattened the food

  2. 2.
    he supplied them with fatboth

    he supplied them with fat

  3. 3.
    he became fatboth

    he became fat

تَسْمِينnoun
  1. 1.
    in the dialect of the people of Ta'if and Yemen: coolingboth

    in the dialect of the people of Ta'if and Yemen: cooling

مُسَمَّنadjective
  1. 1.
    fattenedboth

    Made fat; having been fattened.

  2. 2.
    enrichedboth

    Made richer, especially referring to food prepared with ghee.

مُسَمِّنnoun
  1. 1.
    seller of gheeclassical

    A person who sells ghee.

سَمَنَانnoun
  1. 1.
    plural of samnboth

    plural of samn

تَسَمَّنَverb
  1. 1.
    the same (he became fat)both

    the same (he became fat)

سَمْنَةnoun
  1. 1.
    he fattened itboth

    he fattened it

أَسْمَنَverb
  1. 1.
    to become fatboth

    To become fat oneself.

  2. 2.
    to possess fat animalsclassical

    To own or acquire fat livestock.

  3. 3.
    to give fat animalsclassical

    To bestow fat animals upon someone.

اسْتَسْمَنَverb
  1. 1.
    he asked him for a gift of fatboth

    he asked him for a gift of fat

سَمَّانِيnoun
  1. 1.
    a type of birdclassical

    A specific type of bird, also known as a 'sumani'.

سَمَانَاةnoun
  1. 1.
    a single sumani birdclassical

    The singular form of 'sumani', referring to one bird of that type.

سَمْنِيَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    fatnessclassical

    A state of being fat or corpulent.

Parallel reading

السمن للبقر، وقد يكون للمعزى
Ghee is for cows, and it may be for goats.
ويجمع على سمنان مثل عبد وعبدان، وظهر وظهران
And it is pluralized as 'samnan' like 'abd' and 'abdān', and 'ẓahr' and 'ẓahrān'.
فتملأ بيتنا أقطا وسمنا
So they fill our house with dried yogurt, ghee, and...
وسمنت لهم الطعام أسمنه سمنا، إذا لتته بالسمن
And I enriched their food for them, enriching it with ghee, if I mixed it with ghee.
عظيم القفا رخو الخواصر أوهبت له عجوة مسمونة وخمير
Great of nape, soft of flanks, I presented him with a fattened date and bread.
والسمان إن جعلته بائع السمن انصرف، وإن جعلته من السم لم ينصرف في المعرفة
And 'as-samman' if you make it a seller of ghee, it is declined; and if you make it from poison, it is not declined in definite usage.
وسمنت القوم تسمينا: زودتهم السمن
And I provided the people with ghee, meaning I supplied them with ghee.
والتسمين في لغة أهل الطائف واليمن: التبريد
And 'at-tasmīn' in the language of the people of Taif and Yemen means cooling.
فقال للطباخ سمنها: أي بردها
So he said to the cook, 'Cool it': meaning, 'Chill it'.
والسمين: خلاف المهزول
And 'as-samīn' is the opposite of 'al-mahzūl' (the lean).
وقد سمن سمنا، فهو سمين
And he became fat with fatness, so he is fat.
وتسمن مثله، وسمنه غيره
And he becomes fat like it, and another fattens him.
وفي المثل: " سمن كلبك يأكك "
And in the proverb: 'Fat your dog, and it will eat you'.
والسمنة بالضم: دواء تسمن به النساء
And 'as-samnah' (with dammah) is a medicine by which women gain weight.
وأسمن الرجل: ملك شيئا سمينا، أو أعطى غيره
And a man became rich: he owned something fat, or he gave to another.
واستسمنه: عده سمينا
And to ask him to fatten it: meaning to consider it fat.
وجاءوا يستسمنون، أي يطلبون أن يوهب لهم السمن
And they came seeking to be given fatness, meaning they requested that ghee be bestowed upon them.
لحم جزور غثة سمينه أي مسمونة من السمن، لا من السمن
Tough camel meat, rich, fattened, meaning made fat from ghee, not from poison.
والسماني: طائر، ولا يقال سمانى بالتشديد
And 'as-samānī' is a bird, and it is not said 'as-samānī' with tashdīd.
نفسي تمقس من سمانى الاقبر
My soul is weary of the sumani birds of the graves.
الواحدة سماناة، والجمع سمانيات
The singular is 'samānāh', and the plural is 'samāniyyāt'.