كمء

Root entry · 27 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the 'truffle' (كمأة), a subterranean fungus. It also extends to related concepts like the place where truffles grow, the act of harvesting or eating them, and metaphorically, ignorance or dullness.

Derived headwords

الكَمْءnoun

1.
truffleboth
A type of plant that emerges from the earth, similar to a mushroom. It is also called 'earth's fat' or 'earth's smallpox'.

أَكْمُؤٌnoun

1.
truffles (plural)classical
The broken plural of كمء, referring to multiple truffles.

كَمْأَةٌnoun

1.
truffleboth
A single truffle, or sometimes used collectively for truffles.
2.
truffles (collective)classical
Used as a collective noun for truffles, or as a plural form.

كَمْآنnoun

1.
two trufflesclassical
The dual form for two truffles.

أَكْمَأٌnoun

1.
truffles (plural)classical
A plural form of كمء.

المُكْمَأَةnoun

1.
place of trufflesclassical
The place where truffles grow.

المُكْمَؤَةnoun

1.
place of trufflesclassical
The place where truffles grow.

أَكْمَأَverb

1.
to have many trufflesclassical
The land became abundant with truffles.
2.
to feed trufflesclassical
To feed people truffles.

مُكْمِئَةadjective

1.
truffle-abundantclassical
Describing land that has become abundant with truffles.

مُكْمَؤُةadjective

1.
truffle-abundantclassical
Describing land that has become abundant with truffles.

الكَمَّاءnoun

1.
truffle sellerclassical
One who sells truffles, or a truffle harvester for sale.

كَمِيءَverb

1.
to be barefootclassical
A man was barefoot, meaning he had no sandals on.
2.
to be ignorantclassical
To be ignorant of or dull about news or information.

كَمَأًnoun

1.
barefootednessclassical
The state of being barefoot.
2.
ignoranceclassical
Ignorance or dullness regarding something.

كَمِيءadjective

1.
barefootedclassical
Describing a man who is barefoot.
2.
ignorantclassical
Describing someone who is ignorant or dull.

كَمِئَتْverb

1.
to crackclassical
A hand or foot became cracked, likely due to cold.

أَكْمَأَتْهُverb

1.
to ageclassical
Age has made him old or infirm.

تَكَمَّأَverb

1.
to gather trufflesclassical
To go out gathering truffles.
2.
to dislikeclassical
To find something disagreeable or unpleasant.

تَكَامَأَverb

1.
to be hiddenclassical
To be hidden or concealed within the land.

تَكَمَّأَتْverb

1.
to be hiddenclassical
To be hidden or concealed within the land.

الكائnoun

1.
cowardclassical
A weak-hearted, cowardly person.

الكائَةnoun

1.
cowardclassical
A weak-hearted, cowardly person.

الكِيءnoun

1.
cowardclassical
A weak-hearted, cowardly person.

الكِيئةnoun

1.
cowardclassical
A weak-hearted, cowardly person.

كِئْتُverb

1.
to be cowardlyclassical
To be cowardly or weak-hearted regarding a matter.

كِيئًاnoun

1.
cowardiceclassical
The state of being cowardly.

كِيَأَةًnoun

1.
cowardiceclassical
The state of being cowardly.

كُؤْتُverb

1.
to be cowardlyclassical
To be cowardly or weak-hearted regarding a matter.

Parallel reading

ينفض الأرض فيخرج كما يخرج الفطر

It stirs the earth and emerges like a mushroom emerges.

وقيل: هو شحم الأرض

And it was said: it is the fat of the earth.

والعرب تسميه: جدري الأرض

And the Arabs call it: the smallpox of the earth.

شيء أبيض من شحم ينبت من الأرض

A white thing made of fat that grows from the earth.

يقال له شحم الأرض

It is called the fat of the earth.

ج {أكمؤ) كفلس وأفلس

Plural: akmu' like fulus and aflus.

وكمأة) كتمرة

And kam'ah like tamrah.

هذا قول أهل اللغة

This is the saying of the linguists.

لا نظير له غير راجل ورجلة

It has no parallel except for rajil and rajilah.

أو هي اسم للجمع

Or it is a name for the collective.

ليست بجمع كمء، لأن فعله ليس مما يكسر عليه

It is not a plural of kam', because its verb is not one that is broken upon.

فعل) قاله سيبويه

Fa'al, said Sibawayh.

فلا يلتفت إلى ما قاله شيخنا: كلام لا معنى له

So do not pay attention to what our shaykh said: meaningless speech.

وحكى ثعلب: كماة كقناة

And Tha'lab narrated: kamah like qanah.

وفيه تسمح

And there is leniency in it.

أو هي أي الكمأة للواحد، والكمء للجمع

Or it (kam'ah) is for the singular, and kam' is for the plural.

كمء للواحد وكمأة للجمع

Kam' is for the singular and kam'ah is for the plural.

كمء للواحد وكمأة للجميع

Kam' is for the singular and kam'ah is for the collective.

على غير قياس

Against the usual analogy.

وهو من (النوادر)

And it is from (the rare cases).

فإن القياس العكس

For the analogy is the reverse.

أو هي تكون واحدة وجمعا

Or it can be singular and plural.

كمأة واحدة

One kam'ah.

وكمأتان

And two kam'ahs.

وكمآت

And kam'aat.

الصحيح من ذلك كله ما ذكره سيبويه

The correct of all of that is what Sibawayh mentioned.

يجمع كمء أكمؤا

The plural of kam' is akmu'an.

وجمع الجمع كمأة

And the plural of the plural is kam'ah.

تقول: هذا كمء، وهذان كمآن وهؤلاء أكمؤ ثلاثة

You say: this is kam', and these two are kam'an, and these three are akmu'.

فإذا كثرت فهي الكمأة

And when they are numerous, it is al-kam'ah.

وقيل: الكمأة: هي التي إلى الغبرة والسواد

And it was said: al-kam'ah is that which tends towards ashiness and blackness.

والجبأة إلى الحمرة

And al-jab'ah tends towards redness.

الكمأة من المن، وماؤها شفاء للعين

The truffle is from manna, and its water is a cure for the eye.

قيل إنه من المن حقيقة

It was said that it is literally from manna.

وقيل: مما من الله على عباده بإنعامه

And it was said: it is from what God bestowed upon His servants through His bounty.

شبهت به في حصوله بلا كلفة ولا علاج ولا زرع بذر

It was likened to it (manna) in its appearance without effort, treatment, or sowing seeds.

وماؤها يربى به الكحل والتوتيا

Its water is used to enhance kohl and tutia.

الموضع أي الكمء

The place, meaning of the truffle.

إذا كثر به

If it became abundant with it.

إذا (كثرت} كمأتها

If its truffles became abundant.

أرض مكموءة: كثيرة الكمأة

A makhmu'ah land: abundant with truffles.

أطعمهم إياه أي الكمء

To feed them it, meaning the truffle.

ككمأهم كمأ

Like kam'ah-feeding them kam'ah.

بياعه وجانيه للبيع أيضا

Its seller and its harvester for sale, also.

لقد ساءني والناس لا يعلمونه عرازيل كماء بهن مقيم

It displeased me, and people do not know them scattered like kam' with a resident among them.

سمعت أعرابيا يقول: بنو فلان يقتلون الكماء والضعيف

I heard a bedouin say: The people of so-and-so kill the kam' and the weak.

حفي بحاء مهملة من الحفاء

Barefooted, with a silent ha' from al-hifa'.

وعليه نعل

And he had sandals on.

ولم تكن عليه نعل

And he did not have sandals on.

الكمأ في الرجل كالقسط ورجل كميء

Al-kama' in a man is like al-qist, and a kamii' man.

أنشد بالله من النعلينيه نشدة شيخ كميء الرجلينيه

I swear by God, from his two sandals, the recitation of an old man with bare feet.

تشققت

It cracked.

عن ثعلب

From Tha'lab.

ومن المجاز: كمئت يده ورجله من البرد

And from the figurative speech: his hand and foot cracked from the cold.

والعمل انتهى أي تشققت وكمأت بالفتح

And the work is finished, meaning cracked, and kam'at (with fathah).

كَمِئَتْ عنا لأخبار أكمأ عنها

You were ignorant of the news, you were dull about it.

أي شيخته بتشديد الياء

Meaning, it aged him, with a shaddah on the ya'.

إذا تكرهه

If you dislike it.

خرجوا يتكمؤون: يجتنون الكمأة

They went out gathering: collecting truffles.

تكامأنا في أرضهم، وتكمأت عليه الأرض

We were hidden in their land, and the land concealed him.

وتلمعت عليه، وتودأت إذا غيبته فيها وذهبت به

And it shimmered upon him, and it hid him if it concealed him within it and took him away.

الضعيف الفؤاد الجبان

The weak-hearted, the coward.

وإني لكيء عن الموئبات إذا ما الرطيء انمأى مرثؤه

And indeed I am cowardly from the dangers when the slow one's lamentation grows.

ورجل كيئة وهو الجبان

And a kayi'ah man, and he is the coward.

للانأنا جبإ كيئة يملى مآبره ننصؤه

We are not a cowardly leader whose forelocks are filled and we strike him.

أكيء كيئا وكيأة

I become cowardly, kay'an and kay'atan.

أكوأ

Aku'a.

وكأوا على

And ka'u 'ala.