ل م س

Root entry · 21 derived lemmas

The root ل م س (l-m-s) primarily relates to the physical act of touching or feeling with the hand. It extends to concepts of seeking, probing, and discerning through touch, and metaphorically to sexual intercourse, seeking hidden knowledge, and assessing value or condition.

Derived headwords

لَمَسَverb

1.
to touchboth
To make physical contact with something using the hand.
2.
to feel forboth
To search for something by touching and feeling around.
3.
to have sexual intercourseclassical
A euphemism for sexual intercourse, particularly with a female.
4.
to probeclassical
To investigate or examine something, metaphorically, as if by touching.

لمسه بيده — He touched it with his hand

يلمس الأحلاس في منزله بيديه كاليهودي المصل — He feels for the saddle blankets in his house with his hands like a praying Jew

لَمْسnoun

1.
touchingboth
The act of touching or feeling with the hand.
2.
sexual intercourseclassical
A euphemism for sexual intercourse.
3.
probingclassical
The act of seeking or investigating, metaphorically.

اللمس باليد: أن يطلب شيئا هاهنا وهاهنا — Touching with the hand: to seek something here and there

اللمس والمس متقاربان — Touching and feeling are close in meaning

مَسَّverb

1.
to touchboth
To touch or make contact with something.
2.
to affectboth
To be touched by something, often in a negative way, like affliction.

مسّه بيده — He touched him/it with his hand

المس: إدراك بظاهر البشرة كاللمس — Feeling: perception by the outer skin like touching

مَسٌّnoun

1.
touchboth
The act of touching or feeling.
2.
afflictionclassical
A touch of misfortune or harm.

المس: إدراك بظاهر البشرة كاللمس — Feeling: perception by the outer skin like touching

لامَسَverb

1.
to touch each otherboth
To touch one another, often implying mutual contact.
2.
to touchboth
To touch something, similar to لمس.
3.
to have sexual intercourseclassical
A euphemism for sexual intercourse.

لامسه: مثل لمسه — To touch it: like لمسه

أو لامستم النساء — Or you have touched women

مُلَامَسَةnoun

1.
touchingboth
The act of touching, especially between two parties.
2.
sexual intercourseclassical
A euphemism for sexual intercourse.
3.
conditional saleclassical
A type of sale where the contract is finalized upon touching the goods, considered illicit due to uncertainty.

الملامسة: المماسة باليد، كاللمس — Touching: touching with the hand, like لمس

الملامسة المنهي عنها في البيع — The touching prohibited in trade

إلْتَمَسَverb

1.
to seekboth
To look for something or someone.
2.
to requestboth
To ask for something.
3.
to try to findboth
To attempt to discover or locate.

إلتمس: أي طلب — To seek: meaning to request

من سلك طريقا يلتمس به علما — Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge

تَلَمَّسَverb

1.
to feel forboth
To search for something by touching and feeling.
2.
to seek repeatedlyclassical
To look for something over and over again.

تلمس الشيء، إذا تطلب مرة بعد أخرى — To seek a thing, meaning to seek it repeatedly

تلمس لي فلانا — Seek out so-and-so for me

لَمُوسnoun

1.
doubtful camelclassical
A camel whose fatness or age is uncertain.
2.
imposterclassical
A person of questionable lineage or status.
3.
flawclassical
A defect or blemish in lineage.

اللموس، كصبور: ناقة يشك في سمنها — Al-lamūs, like ṣabūr: a she-camel whose fatness is doubted

فرح اللموس بثابت الفقر — The imposter rejoices in stable poverty

لَمُوسَةnoun

1.
pathclassical
A road or way, metaphorically named because a lost person seeks it.

اللموسة، بهاء: الطريق سمي به لأن الضال يلمسه — Al-lamūsah, with tāʾ marbūṭah: the road, named so because the lost person seeks it

لَمِيسadjective

1.
soft to the touchclassical
Describing a woman who is soft and pleasant to touch.

اللميس، كأمير: المرأة اللينة الملمس — Al-lamīs, like amīr: the woman soft to the touch

لَمِيسname

1.
female given nameclassical
A proper name for women.
2.
male given nameclassical
A proper name for men.

ولميس: علم للنساء — And Lamīs: a name for women

ولميس، كزبير: علم للرجال — And Lamīs, like Zubayr: a name for men

لَمَّاسname

1.
male given nameclassical
A proper name for men.

وكذا: لماس، كشداد — And likewise: Lammās, like Shaddād

مُتَلَمِّسname

1.
nicknameclassical
The nickname of the poet Jarir.

والمتلمس: لقب جرير بن عبد المسيح — And Al-Mutalammis: the nickname of Jarir ibn 'Abd al-Masih

مُتَلَمِّسَةnoun

1.
brand markclassical
A specific type of brand mark on camels.

المتلمسة: من سمات الإبل — Al-Mutalammasah: among the brands of camels

لَمْسother

1.
blindingclassical
Metaphorically, something that dazzles or blinds the sight.

له شعاع يكاد يلمس البصر — It has a radiance that almost blinds the sight

لَمَسَ عينهverb phrase

1.
to blind someoneclassical
To cause someone to lose their sight; to gouge out eyes.

لمس عينه وسمل، بمعنى واحد — To touch his eye and to gouge it out, meaning the same

إلْمَاسnoun

1.
needclassical
A pressing need or requirement.

الماسة، بالفتح: الحاجة كاللماسة، بالضم — Al-lāmāsah, with fatḥah: need, like al-lāmāsah, with ḍammah

لَمَّاسَةnoun

1.
needclassical
A pressing need or requirement.

الماسة، بالفتح: الحاجة كاللماسة، بالضم — Al-lāmāsah, with fatḥah: need, like al-lāmāsah, with ḍammah

أَلْمَسَverb

1.
to permit touchingclassical
To allow someone to touch a female.
2.
to give in marriageclassical
To give a woman in marriage, metaphorically.

ألمسني الجارية، أي ائذن لي في لمسها — Allow me the slave girl, meaning permit me to touch her

ألمسني امرأة: أي زوجينها — Allow me a woman: meaning give her in marriage to me

لَامِسnoun

1.
one who touchesclassical
Someone who touches, often used in the context of a woman's chastity.

امرأة لا تمنع يد لامس — A woman who does not prevent the hand of a toucher

لا ترد يد لامس — She does not refuse the hand of a toucher

Parallel reading

مسّه بيده

He touched him/it with his hand

اللّمس باليد: أن يطلب شيئاً ها هنا وها هنا

Touching with the hand: to seek something here and there

وقيل: اللمس: الجس

And it was said: Touching is feeling/sensing

المس: إدراك بظاهر البشرة كاللمس

Feeling: perception by the outer skin like touching

لامسه: مثل لمسه

To touch it: like لمسه

وأنا لمسنا السماء فوجدناها ملئت حرسا شديدا وشهبا

And we have touched the heaven and found it filled with strong guards and shooting stars

إكاف ملموس الأحناء

A saddle pad smoothed at the curves

امرأة لا تمنع يد لامس

A woman who does not prevent the hand of a toucher

لا ترد يد لامس

She does not refuse the hand of a toucher

فإستمتع بها أي لا تمسكها إلا بقدر ما تقضي متعة النفس منها ومن وطرها

So enjoy her, meaning do not keep her except for the duration needed to satisfy the soul's pleasure and desire

هي لا ترد يد لامس

She does not refuse the hand of a toucher

في الرجل: لا يرد يد لامس، أي ليست فيه) منعة ولا حمية

About a man: he does not refuse the hand of a toucher, meaning he lacks strength or protective zeal

ناقة لموس: شك في سنامها، أبها طرق أم لا

A lamūs she-camel: doubt about its hump, whether it is fat or not

هي الشكوك والضبوث

It refers to doubts and uncertainties

اللموس: الدعي

Al-lamūs: the imposter

الطريق سمي به لأن الضال يلمسه، أي يطلبه ليجد أثر السفر

The road is so named because the lost person seeks it, meaning he looks for it to find traces of travel

المرأة اللينة الملمس

The woman soft to the touch

وهن يمشين بناهميسا إن يصدق الطير ننك لميسا

And they walk with us softly, if the bird is true, we will touch Lamīs

كواه لماس، كقطام، وكواه المتلمسة

He cauterized him with lammās, like qaṭṭām, and he cauterized him with al-mutalammasah

إذا أصاب موضع دائه بالتلمس فوقع على داء الرجل أو ما كان يكتم

If he hit the place of his ailment by probing, it fell upon the man's disease or what he was hiding

من سلك طريقا يلتمس به علما أي يطلبه

Whoever treads a path seeking knowledge, meaning requesting it

فإلتمست عقدي

And I sought my necklace

تلمس الشيء، إذا تطلب مرة بعد أخرى

To seek a thing, meaning to seek it repeatedly

وذاك أوان العرض طن ذبابه زنابيره والأزرق المتلمس

And that is when its flies buzzed with their stingers, and the blue one probing

الملامسة: المماسة باليد، كاللمس

Al-mulāmasah: touching with the hand, like al-lams

والملامسة أكثر ما جاءت من إثنين

And al-mulāmasah mostly comes from two

أو لامستم النساء

Or you have touched women

إن القبلة من اللمس، وفيها الوضوء

A kiss is a form of touching, and it requires ablution

هي لا ترد يد لامس

She does not refuse the hand of a toucher

أن يقول: إذا لمست ثوبك أو لمست ثوبي أو إذا لمست المبيع فقد وجب البيع بيننا بكذا وكذا

To say: If you touch your garment or I touch my garment, or if you touch the sold item, then the sale is binding between us for such and such

له شعاع يكاد يلمس البصر

It has a radiance that almost touches/blinds the sight

إقتلوا ذا الطئفيتين والأبتر فإنهما يلمسان البصر

Kill the one with two tails and the short-tailed one, for they blind the sight

إلمس لي فلانا

Seek out so-and-so for me

الماسة، بالفتح: الحاجة كاللماسة، بالضم

Al-lāmāsah, with fatḥah: need, like al-lāmāsah, with ḍammah

ألمسني الجارية، أي ائذن لي في لمسها

Allow me the slave girl, meaning permit me to touch her

ألمسني امرأة: أي زوجينها

Allow me a woman: meaning give her in marriage to me