قرمص

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes hollowed-out spaces, particularly those dug for shelter from cold or for hunting. It also extends to concepts of enclosure, contraction, and specific anatomical or geographical features.

Derived headwords

القُرْمُصُnoun

1.
hollowed spaceclassical
A hollowed-out space, often a pit or burrow, used for shelter.

القِرْمَاصُnoun

1.
hollowed spaceclassical
A hollowed-out space, often a pit or burrow, used for shelter.
2.
place for baking breadclassical
A place where bread is baked in embers.
3.
bird's nestclassical
The nest of a bird, especially a pigeon.
4.
shortness of cheeksclassical
A description of a face with short cheeks.

القُرْمُوصُnoun

1.
hollowed spaceclassical
A hollowed-out space, often a pit or burrow, used for shelter.
2.
place for baking breadclassical
A place where bread is baked in embers.
3.
bird's nestclassical
The nest of a bird, especially a pigeon.
4.
hunter's pitclassical
A pit dug by a hunter.

قُرْمَصَverb

1.
to enter and contractclassical
To enter into a hollowed space and contract oneself for warmth or shelter.
2.
to make hollowsclassical
To dig or make hollowed spaces.

تَقَرْمَصَverb

1.
to enter and contractclassical
To enter into a hollowed space and contract oneself for warmth or shelter.
2.
to enter for huntingclassical
To enter a pit or burrow, especially a predator entering for hunting.

القَرَامِيصُnoun

1.
small hollowsclassical
Small hollows or pits dug for shelter from the cold.
2.
hollows for shelterclassical
Hollows dug by servants for shelter from the wind.
3.
bird's nestsclassical
The nests of birds.
4.
inner thighs of a camelclassical
The inner parts of a camel's thighs, especially when it is lying down.
5.
expanse of an affairclassical
The breadth or extent of an affair or matter.

قَرَامِصَاnoun

1.
bird's nestsclassical
A plural form of bird's nests, used poetically.

القُرْمُصُnoun

1.
sour milkclassical
Sour milk, possibly a variant or related term.

مُقَرْمِصُnoun

1.
maker of hollowsclassical
One who makes or digs hollows.

Parallel reading

حفرة واسعة الجوف، ضيقة الرأس، يستدفئ فيها الإنسان الصرد، أي المقرور

A wide-bellied, narrow-headed pit, in which a cold person finds warmth.

قر أميص صردى نارها لم تؤجج

Hollows of the cold, whose fire has not been kindled.

القرامص: حفر صغار يستكن فيها الإنسان من البرد

Al-Qaramis: small hollows in which a person takes refuge from the cold.

يا ويح كفي من حفر القراميص

Woe to my hands from digging the Qaramis.

القرموص، والقرماص: موضع خبز الملة

Al-Qurmous, and Al-Qurmas: a place for baking bread in embers.

قرمص الرجل: دخل في القرماص وتقبض

A man qarmas: he entered the Qurmas and contracted himself.

يحتفرون حفرا ويتقبضون فيها، ويلقون أهدامهم فوقهم، يردون بذلك برد الشمال عنهم

They dig hollows and contract themselves in them, and throw their rags over them, thereby warding off the north wind from themselves.

ويسمون تلك الحفر القراميص

And they call those hollows Al-Qaramis.

القرموص: العش يبيض فيه الطائر

Al-Qurmous: the nest in which the bird lays eggs.

إلف الحمامة مدخل القرماص

The dove's familiar haunt is the entrance of the Qurmas.

ترى للحمام الورق فيها قرامصا

You see the grey doves in them, Qaramisa (nests).

القرموص: وكر الطائر

Al-Qurmous: the bird's nest.

قرمص الرجل والطير، إذا دخلا القرموص

A man and a bird qarmas, if they entered the Qurmous.

في وجهه قرماص، أي فيه قصر الخدين

On his face is a Qurmas, meaning shortness of the cheeks.

القرامص: اللبن القارص

Al-Qaramis: sour milk.

تقرمصها: دخل فيها

Taqarmasaha: he entered into it.

ما تقرمص سبع قرموصا إلا بقضاء

No predator entered a Qurmous except by decree.

قرمص القراميص وتقرمصها: عملها

He qarmas the Qaramis and taqarmasaha: he made them.

مقرمص الزرب

The maker of the burrow.

قر اميص ضرع الناقة: بواطن أفخاذها

Qaramis of the she-camel's udder: the inner parts of her thighs.

عن ذي قراميس لها محجل

From one with Qaramis (hollows) for it, which is white-legged.

قر اميص الأمر: سعته من جوانبه

Qaramis of the affair: its breadth from its sides.