كمتر

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes a specific type of gait, characterized by short, close steps, often associated with someone short or stout. It also extends to describe a person who is stout, short, and strong, and the act of filling or tightly closing a waterskin.

Derived headwords

الكمترةnoun

1.
Short-paced gaitclassical
A gait characterized by short, close steps and a waddling motion, similar to a stout person's walk.
2.
Stout person's walkclassical
The walk of a stout, broad person, as if being pulled from the sides.

كمترةnoun

1.
Short-paced gaitclassical
A gait characterized by short, close steps, often associated with a short, energetic runner.
2.
Filling a waterskinclassical
The act of filling a waterskin or a container.
3.
Tying a waterskinclassical
The act of tightly closing a waterskin with its tie.

كمترadjective

1.
Short and stoutclassical
Describing someone who is short, stout, and strong.
2.
Shortclassical
Describing something as short or of little quantity, possibly borrowed from Persian.

الكماترnoun

1.
Short and stout personclassical
A collective noun or plural for someone who is short, stout, and strong.

كمترهverb

1.
to fillclassical
To fill a waterskin or a container.

كمترverb

1.
to tie tightlyclassical
To tightly close a waterskin with its tie.

Parallel reading

الكمترة: مشية فيها تقارب ودرجان، كالكردحة

Al-kamtarah: a gait with closeness and waddling, like al-kurdahah.

ويقال: قمطرة وكمترة بمعنى

And it is said: qamṭarah and kamtarah have the same meaning.

قيل: الكمترة من عدو القصير المتقارب الخطا المجتهد في عدوه

It is said: Al-kamtarah is from the running of a short person with close steps, striving in his run.

حيث ترى الكوألل الكماترا ... كالهبع الصيفي يكبو عاثرا

Where you see the runners, the short-paced ones... like the summer locust, stumbling and falling.

الكمترة بالكسر: مشي العريض الغليظ كأنما يجذب من جانبيه

Al-kamtarah (with kasr): the walk of the broad and stout, as if being pulled from its sides.

والكمتر والكماتر، بضمهما: الضخم والقصير والصلب الشديد مثل الكندر والكنادر

And al-kumtar and al-kumātar, with dammah on both: the large, short, and hard, strong one, like al-kundar and al-kunādir.

قلت: ويقربه ما في الفارسية، كمتر بالفتح بمعنى القصير والقليل القدر

I say: And what is in Persian supports this, kumtar (with fatha) meaning short and of little quantity.

وكمتره، أي السقاء: ملأه وكذلك الإناء

And kamtarahu, meaning the waterskin: he filled it, and likewise the container.

كمتر القربة كمترة: شدها بوكائها

Kamtar al-qurbah kamtaratan: he tightly tied its mouth with its tie.