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د م ح ل

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to concepts of bulkiness, thickness, and rolling or pushing. It describes stout individuals and dense, intertwined objects.

Derived headwords

دَمْحَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to roll, pushclassical

    To roll something along, similar to the verb 'dahrja'.

دَمْحَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to neglectclassical

    To neglect or disregard something.

الدَّمَاحِلnoun
  1. 1.
    bulky, intertwined thingsclassical

    Describing things that are stout, bulky, and densely intertwined or packed together.

الدَّمْحَلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    fat womanclassical

    A woman who is fat or stout.

  2. 2.
    well-formed womanclassical

    A woman of good build and form.

دَمْحَلadjective
  1. 1.
    stout, fat manclassical

    A man who is stout, fat, or well-built.

دَمَاحِلadjective
  1. 1.
    stout, fat manclassical

    A man who is stout, fat, or well-built.

الدَّمْحَالnoun
  1. 1.
    ambergrisclassical

    A substance, possibly ambergris, though its exact meaning is debated and unclarified by early lexicographers.

Parallel reading

دمحله أهمله الجوهري
Al-Jawhari neglected it.
وقال ابن دريد: دحرجه كدحمله
And Ibn Duraid said: 'dahrjahu' is like 'damḥalahu'.
والدماحل، بالضم: المكتنز المتداخل
And 'al-damāḥil', with the dammah, means the stout and intertwined.
حسبت في أعجازها خوازلا من جذبهن العقد الدماحلا
I thought in their hindquarters were dancers, from the pulling of their stout hindquarters.
يقول: كأن أعجازهن تنجذب لثقل أوراكهن
He means: as if their hindquarters were being pulled by the weight of their thighs.
والدمحلة، كعلبطة: المرأة السمينة
And 'al-damḥalah', like 'al-'albaṭah', means the fat woman.
أو الحسنة الخلق
Or the well-formed.
والرجل دمحل ودماحل، كذلك
And the man is 'damḥal' and 'damāḥil', likewise.
في ياقوتة الطربال: الدمحال، بالكسر: التبري
In Yaqutat al-Ṭarbal: 'al-damḥāl', with the kasrah, means ambergris.
هكذا هو في النسخ، بكسر المثناة الفوقية وتشديد الموحدة المفتوحة
This is how it is in the manuscripts, with a kasrah on the upper 'ta' and a shaddah on the open 'ba'.
وفي العباب بتقديم الموحدة
And in Al-ʿUbāb, with the 'ba' preceding.
ولم يفسروه لا أبو عمرو، ولا الأزهري
Neither Abu Amr nor Al-Azhari explained it.
وقد قيل: إنه منسوب لكذا
And it has been said: it is attributed to such-and-such.