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س ر م ط

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes something long, tall, or extended. It is applied to animals, particularly camels, and also to objects and even abstract qualities like swallowing everything. Some derived terms also refer to containers.

Derived headwords

تسرمطverb
  1. 1.
    to be sparse and lightclassical

    Said of hair, meaning it is sparse, thin, and light.

السرومطnoun
  1. 1.
    tall camelclassical

    A tall camel.

  2. 2.
    long thingclassical

    The long of anything, whether an animal or an object.

  3. 3.
    container for wine skinclassical

    A container in which a wine skin or similar item is placed.

  4. 4.
    skin wrapping for wineclassical

    A wrapping made of gazelle or sheep skin used to enclose a wine skin.

سرطمnoun
  1. 1.
    tall camelclassical

    A tall camel, similar to سرومط.

السرا مطnoun
  1. 1.
    tall camelclassical

    A tall camel, similar to سرومط.

المسرمطadjective
  1. 1.
    swallowing everythingclassical

    A man who swallows everything, implying greed or voracity. The 'm' is considered by some to be an extra letter.

السرمطيطnoun
  1. 1.
    tall thingclassical

    Something very long or tall.

Parallel reading

تسرمط الشعر: قل وخف
Hair is تسرمط: sparse and light.
والسرومط، كصنوبر: الجمل الطويل
And السرومط, like صنوبر, is the tall camel.
أعيس سام سرطم سرومط كالسرمط
A brown camel, tall, long, very tall, like a سرمط.
بكل سام سرمط سرومط
With every tall, long, very tall camel.
وقيل: السرومط وما بعده كله: الطويل من كل شيء.
And it is said: السرومط and all that follows it means the tall of everything.
السرومط: الطويل من الإبل وغيرها
السرومط: the tall of camels and others.
بمجتزف جون كأن خفاءه ... قرا حبشي بالسرومط محقب
Bought wholesale, a dark one, whose wrapping ... is like an Abyssinian skin, tall and strapped.
وقيل: السرومط في البيت: جلد ضائنة يجعل فيه زق الخمر
And it is said: السرومط in the verse is a sheep skin in which a wine skin is placed.
وقيل: هي جلد ظبية لف فيه زق الخمر.
And it is said: it is a gazelle skin in which a wine skin is wrapped.
وعاء يكون فيه زق الخمر ونحوه.
A container in which a wine skin and the like is placed.
كل خفاء يلف فيه شيء فهو سرومط له.
Every wrapping in which something is rolled up is a سرومط for it.
السرومط: اسم جبل
السرومط: the name of a mountain.
ورجل سرومط: يبتلع كل شيء
And a man is سرومط: he swallows everything.