ش م ط

Root entry · 32 derived lemmas

The root ش م ط (sh-m-ṭ) primarily relates to the intermingling or mixing of colors, particularly white and black in hair, leading to the concept of greying or being grey-haired. It extends to mixing in general, and metaphorically to various mixed or variegated states, such as mixed colors in dawn, plants, or animal tails, and even to scattered or dispersed things.

Derived headwords

شَمَطَverb

1.
to mix colorsboth
To mix colors, specifically referring to white hairs appearing among black ones.
2.
to mix generallyclassical
To mix or blend things together.
3.
to fillclassical
To fill a container.
4.
to shedclassical
For a palm tree or other plant to shed its fruit or leaves.

شَمْطnoun

1.
greying of hairboth
The appearance of white hairs mixed with black hair on the head.
2.
mixingclassical
The act of mixing or blending.
3.
mixed colorclassical
Something that has mixed colors.
4.
spicesclassical
Spices or seasonings for food.

أَشْمَطَverb

1.
to mixclassical
To mix something, often used in the context of mixing one's deeds with charity.

شَمِيطadjective

1.
grey-hairedboth
Having hair with white mixed with black.
2.
mixedclassical
Having two colors mixed together.
3.
dawnclassical
The dawn, due to the mixture of light and darkness.
4.
offspringclassical
Children, half male and half female.
5.
plantclassical
A plant that is partly withered and partly green.
6.
milkclassical
Milk that is neither clearly sour nor fresh.
7.
animal tailclassical
An animal tail with white and black mixed.

شَمْطَاءadjective

1.
grey-haired womanboth
A woman with grey hair.
2.
white-lipped animalclassical
An animal with white lips or muzzle.

شَمْطَانnoun

1.
grey-haired peopleclassical
A group of people with grey hair.

شَمْطَانَةnoun

1.
partially ripe fruitclassical
A fruit, like a date, where one side is ripe and the rest is unripe.

شَمَاطِيطnoun

1.
scattered groupsclassical
Groups of people or things that are dispersed or scattered.
2.
worn-outclassical
A worn-out or tattered garment.

شَمَطِيطnoun

1.
scattered groupsclassical
A single unit of scattered people or things.

شَمَطُوطnoun

1.
tallclassical
A tall person.
2.
scattered groupclassical
A group of people or things that are dispersed.

شَمَطُوطadjective

1.
tallclassical
Tall, long.
2.
foolishclassical
Foolish, simple-minded.

شَمِيطٌname

1.
fortress nameclassical
A fortress in Andalusia.
2.
hadith narrator nameclassical
Name of a hadith narrator.
3.
place nameclassical
A place name in the lands of Banu Abi Abd Allah bin Kilab.

شَامِطname

1.
nicknameclassical
A nickname for Ahmad bin Hayyan al-Qutay'i, a hadith narrator.

شَمَطَهَاverb

1.
to cook with spicesclassical
To cook a sheep with its spices or seasonings.

أَشْمَاطَهَاnoun

1.
spicesclassical
Its spices or seasonings, referring to bread and sauces.

شَمْطُوطname

1.
horse nameclassical
The name of Durayd bin al-Simmah's mare.

شَمَطَاطnoun

1.
scattered groupsclassical
A group of people or things that are dispersed.
2.
worn-outclassical
A worn-out or tattered garment.

شَمِيطَةnoun

1.
descendantclassical
A female descendant, specifically referring to a lineage of horses.

اشْمَاطَّverb

1.
to run fastclassical
For horses to run fast, competing to reach something.

اشْمَأَطَّverb

1.
to become greyclassical
To become grey-haired.

شَمِيطٌnoun

1.
wolfclassical
A wolf (likely a scribal error for 'tail').

شَمْطُوطnoun

1.
longclassical
A long thing.

شَمْطُوطnoun

1.
groupclassical
A group of people or other beings, similar to شمطاط.

شَمَاطِيطnoun

1.
scatteredclassical
Scattered, dispersed.

شَمَاطِيطِيّadjective

1.
related to scatteredclassical
An adjective derived from شماطيط, referring to something scattered.

شَمَاطِيطname

1.
man's nameclassical
The name of a man.

شَمْطَاتnoun

1.
white hairsclassical
White hairs that are in the head, plural of شمط.

شَمْطَاءadjective

1.
white-lipped camelclassical
A camel with white lips.

شَمِيط الذُّنَابَىadjective

1.
mixed-tailedclassical
An animal with a tail that has both white and black colors.

شَمَطَverb

1.
to mixclassical
To mix, used metaphorically for 'to plunge' or 'to delve into'.

شَمْطُوطnoun

1.
longclassical
Long, extended.

شَمَطَverb

1.
to scatterclassical
To scatter, disperse.

Parallel reading

بياض شعر الرأس يخالط سواده

The whiteness of the head's hair mixes with its blackness.

الشمط في الشعر: اختلافه بلونين من سواد وبياض

Al-shamṭ in hair: its variation with two colors of black and white.

شمط الرجل كفرح يشمط شمطا وأشمط

A man became grey-haired, as in فرح (farḥa), he becomes grey-haired (yashmaṭu) with greying (shamṭan) and became grey-haired (ashmaṭa).

وقد شمطت بعدها واشمطت

And I became grey-haired after it, and I became grey-haired.

وما أنت الغداة وذكر سلمى ... وأمسى الرأس منك إلى اشمطاط

And what are you today, remembering Salma... and the head has become grey from you with greying.

فهو أشمط، من قوم شمط، وشمطان، بضمهما

So he is grey-haired (ashmaṭ), from a people of grey-haired (shamṭ), and grey-haired ones (shamṭān), with both their dammah.

والمرأة شمطاء

And the woman is grey-haired (shamṭā').

ولا شمطاء لم يترك شقاها ... لها من تسعة إلا جنينا

Nor a grey-haired woman whose misfortune left her nothing from nine except a fetus.

الشمط في الرجل: شيب اللحية، وفي المرأة شيب الرأس

Al-shamṭ in a man: greying of the beard; and in a woman: greying of the head.

أشمط عملك بصدقة، أي اخلطه

Mix your deed with charity, meaning blend it.

فهو شميط ومشموط

So he is mixed (shamīṭ) and mixed (mashmūṭ).

اشمطوا، أي خذوا مرة في قرآن، ومرة في شعر، ومرة في لغة، أي خوضوا

Delve in, meaning take one time in the Quran, one time in poetry, one time in language, meaning plunge in.

شمط الإناء: ملأه

To fill a container: to fill it.

شمطت النخلة، إذا انتثر بسرها

The palm tree shed its fruit, when its unripe dates fell.

طلع الشميط، أي الصبح، لاختلاط لونيه من الظلمة والبياض

The mixed one appeared, meaning the dawn, due to the mixture of its two colors from darkness and whiteness.

لاختلاط بياضه بباقي ظلمة الليل

Due to the mixture of its whiteness with the remaining darkness of the night.

وأطلع منه اللياح الشميط ... خدودا كما سلت الأنصل

And the mixed dawn revealed ... cheeks like sharpened spearheads.

شميط يتلي آخر الليل ساطع

A mixed (dawn) following the bright end of the night.

الشميط: الولد نصفهم ذكور ونصفهم إناث

Al-shamīṭ: children, half of them males and half of them females.

نبت شميط، أي بعضه هائج

A mixed plant, meaning partly withered.

ذنب شميط: فيه سواد وبياض

A mixed tail: it has blackness and whiteness.

شمط بين الماء واللبن، أي خلط

Mixed between water and milk, meaning blended.

طائر شميط الذنابى، إذا كان في ذنبه بياض وسواد

A bird with a mixed tail, if there is whiteness and blackness in its tail.

شميط الذنابى جوفت وهي جونة ... بنقبة ديباج وريط مقطع

Mixed of tail, its belly was hollowed and it was a bay mare ... with a patch of brocade and cut strips.

يقول: اختلط في ذنبها بياض وغيره

He says: whiteness and other colors were mixed in its tail.

البسرة يرطب جانب منها وسائرها يابس

The date where one side of it is moist and the rest of it is dry.

كأنهم بين الشميط وصارة ... وجرثم والسوبان خشب مصرع

As if they were between Al-Shamīṭ and Ṣārah ... and Jurthum and Al-Sawbān, the wood of their death.

تسع شاة بشمطها، بالفتح، ويكسر

It holds a sheep with its spices, with a fatḥah, and with a kasrah.

أي بتوابلها، كما في الصحاح، أي بمآدمها من الخبز والصباغ

Meaning with its spices, as in Al-Ṣiḥāḥ, meaning with its accompaniments of bread and sauce.

يتبعها شمردل شمطوط

A tall, long one follows her.

الفرقة من الناس وغيرهم كالشمطاط والشمطيط

A group of people and others, like al-shamṭāṭ and al-shamṭīṭ.

قوم شماطيط: متفرقة

Scattered people: dispersed.

ذهب القوم شماطيط وشماليل، إذا تفرقوا

The people went scattered and dispersed, when they separated.

صريح لؤي لا شماطيط جرهم

A pure descendant of Lu'ayy, not the scattered ones of Jurhum.

وثوب شماطيط، أي خلق

And a tattered garment, meaning worn-out.

محتجزا بخلق شمطاط على سراويل له أسماط

Tucked into a worn-out garment over his trousers which had seams.

جاءت الخيل شماطيط، أي متفرقة أرسالا، أو جماعة في تفرقة

The horses came scattered, meaning in dispersed groups, or a group in dispersion.

أنا شماطيط الذي حدثت به

I am the scattered one you told about.

الشعرات البيض تكون في الرأس، جمع شمط

The white hairs that are in the head, plural of shamṭ.

ناقة شمطاء: بيضاء المشفرين

A camel shamṭā': white of the lips.

شمطاء أعلى بزها مطرح قد طال ما ترحها المترح

A white-lipped mare, her gait is high, how long has the weary one been carrying her.

فرس شميط الذنب: فيه لونان

A horse with a mixed tail: it has two colors.

أكل فلان شاة مصلية بشمطها، بالضم، لغة في الفتح

So-and-so ate a roasted sheep with its spices, with a dammah, a variant pronunciation of the fatḥah.

تعللت بالشمطاء إذ بان صاحبي ... وكل امرئ قد بان أو بان صاحبه

I was comforted by Al-Shamṭā' when my companion departed... and every person has departed or their companion has departed.

جريت طلقا وشمطوطا بمعنى واحد

I ran freely and long, meaning the same thing.

اشماطت الخيل، إذا ركضت تبادر شيئا تطلبه

The horses ran fast, when they raced to pursue something they sought.

شمطة شمطا، إذا أخذه باستيفاء

A complete taking, if he took it thoroughly.

على التشبيه

By way of analogy.