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ر م ط

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root appears to be primarily concerned with concepts of criticism, fault-finding, and dense, tangled vegetation. It also includes a place name.

Derived headwords

رَمَطَverb
  1. 1.
    to criticizeclassical

    To find fault with someone or something, to attack or criticize them.

  2. 2.
    to slanderclassical

    To speak ill of someone, to defame them.

رَمْطًاnoun
  1. 1.
    criticismclassical

    The act of finding fault or criticizing.

الرَّمْطnoun
  1. 1.
    tangled vegetationclassical

    A dense collection of thorny bushes like 'urfut and other thorny trees, similar to a thicket.

رَمْطَةname
  1. 1.
    Ramtamodern

    A castle located on the island of Sicily.

Parallel reading

رمطه يرمطه رمطا، أهمله الجوهري، وقال ابن دريد: أي عابه وطعن عليه
He criticized it, criticizing it, a criticism; Al-Jawhari neglected it, and Ibn Duraid said: meaning he found fault with it and attacked it.
وفي اللسان: طعن فيه
And in Al-Lisan: he attacked it.
وقال الليث: الرمط: مجمع العرفط ونحوه من العضاه، كالغيضة
And Al-Layth said: Al-ramt: is a gathering of 'urfut and similar thorny trees, like a thicket.
أو الصواب: الرهطة، بالهاء، والميم تصحيف، قاله الأزهري
Or the correct word is: al-rahṭah, with a ha', and the mim is a misspelling, according to Al-Azhari.
سمعت العرب تقول للحرجة الملتفة من السدر: عيص سدر، ورهط سدر
I heard the Arabs say for a dense, intertwined thicket of sidr: 'ayṣ sidr, and raḥṭ sidr.
قال: وأخبرني الإيادي عن شمر عن ابن الأعرابي قال: يقال: فرش من عرفط، وأيكة من أثل، ورهط من عشر، وجفجف من رمث
He said: And Al-Iyadi informed me from Shammar from Ibn Al-A'rabi, who said: It is said: a فرش of 'urfut, an أيكة of athel, a رهط of 'ashar, and a جفجف of ramth.
وهو بالهاء لا غير، ومن رواه بالميم فقد صحف
And it is with the ha' and nothing else, and whoever narrated it with the mim has made a mistake.
وفي العباب: وتبع الليث على التصحيف ابن عباد والعزيزي
And in Al-'Abab: Ibn 'Abbad and Al-'Azizi followed Al-Layth in the misspelling.
رمطة، بالفتح: قلعة بجزيرة صقلية، كذا في التكملة
Ramṭah, with the fatḥah: a castle in the island of Sicily, as stated in Al-Takmilah.