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جعمس

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with the concept of excrement, specifically feces. It also extends to the act of expelling it, and metaphorically to things that are discarded or abundant.

Derived headwords

الجعموسnoun
  1. 1.
    fecesboth

    What a person expels from their belly; excrement.

جعاميسnoun
  1. 1.
    feces (plural)both

    The plural form of الجعموس, referring to feces.

جعمسverb
  1. 1.
    to expel all at onceclassical

    To expel feces or waste in one single instance.

  2. 2.
    to expel drylyclassical

    To expel feces that is dry.

مجعمسadjective
  1. 1.
    expelled all at onceclassical

    Describing something, particularly feces, that has been expelled in one single, possibly forceful, instance.

جعامسadjective
  1. 1.
    expelled drylyclassical

    Describing something, particularly feces, that has been expelled in a dry state.

الجعاميسnoun
  1. 1.
    date palmsclassical

    A term used by the Hudhail tribe for date palms.

الجعموسةname
  1. 1.
    a water sourceclassical

    The name of a water source belonging to the Banu Dhubaynah tribe.

Parallel reading

الجعموس، كعصفور، أهمله الجوهري هنا، ولكن صرح به في جعس فإن ميمه زائدة وإن وزنه فعمول، وهو: الرجيع
Al-Jaʿmūs, like ʿaṣfūr, was neglected by Al-Jawharī here, but he affirmed it in (the entry for) Jaʿas, as its mīm is extra and its weight is faʿmūl, and it is: feces.
قال أبو زيد: الجعموس: ما يطرحه الإنسان من ذي بطنه
Abū Zayd said: Al-Jaʿmūs is what a person expels from their belly.
جمعه جعاميس
Its plural is jaʿāmīs.
وأنشد: (مالك من إبل ترى ولا نعم ... إلا جعاميسك وسط المستحم)
And he recited: (You have no camels you see, nor any livestock... except your feces in the middle of the bathing place).
وجعمس الرجل: وضعه بمرة واحدة
And jaʿmasa the man: he expelled it all at once.
وقيل: إذا وضعه يابسا، وهو مجعمس وجعامس، بالضم
And it was said: if he expelled it dry, and it is majʿams and juʿāmis, with the dammah.
قال الصاغاني: وزن جعمس فعمل لزيادة الميم، وكذلك جعامس
Al-Ṣāghānī said: The weight of jaʿmasa is faʿala due to the extra mīm, and likewise juʿāmis.
والجعاميس: النخل، هذلية، قاله ابن عباد
And al-jaʿāmīs: date palms, a Hudhaili term, according to Ibn ʿAbbād.
وقد تقدم أن في لغة هذيل في اسم النخل الجعسوس أيضا، والجمع الجعاسيس
And it has preceded that in the language of Hudhail, the word for date palms is also al-jaʿsūs, and its plural is al-jaʿāsīs.
والجعموسة، بالضم: ماء لبني ضبينة، نقله الصاغاني
And al-jaʿmūsah, with the dammah: a water source of Banu Dhubaynah, as reported by Al-Ṣāghānī.