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ج ل م

Root entry · 16 derived lemmas

The root ج ل م primarily relates to cutting, shearing, or stripping. This extends to concepts of removing flesh from bone, shearing wool or hair, and by extension, to things that are stripped or shorn, like a shorn sheep or a specific type of antelope. It also encompasses tools for cutting and abstract concepts like completeness.

Derived headwords

جَلَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to cutboth

    To cut something, often with a shearing or stripping motion.

  2. 2.
    to strip fleshclassical

    To strip the flesh from bones, particularly of a slaughtered animal.

  3. 3.
    to shear wool/hairboth

    To shear or cut wool or hair, using shears.

جَلْمnoun
  1. 1.
    shearsboth

    A tool used for shearing wool or hair.

  2. 2.
    tickclassical

    A small parasitic arachnid, possibly named for its small size resembling certain sheep.

  3. 3.
    camel brandclassical

    A specific mark or brand used on camels.

  4. 4.
    moonclassical

    The moon, particularly the crescent moon.

  5. 5.
    kid (goat)classical

    A young goat, or a male antelope/goat.

جَلَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to strip fleshclassical

    To take the flesh off the bones of a slaughtered animal.

اجْتَلَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to strip fleshclassical

    To strip the flesh from bones, similar to جلم.

جَلْمnoun
  1. 1.
    fatty tissueclassical

    The fatty tissue (tharb) of a sheep.

جَلَمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    shorn sheepclassical

    A sheep that has had its wool shorn, especially after its legs and excess parts are removed.

  2. 2.
    entiretyboth

    The whole of something.

جُلْمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    meat of a carcassclassical

    The entire meat of a slaughtered animal (like a camel).

  2. 2.
    shorn sheepclassical

    A shorn sheep, without its stuffing or limbs.

  3. 3.
    entiretyboth

    The whole of something.

جُلْمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    entiretyboth

    The whole of something; completely.

جُلَامnoun
  1. 1.
    shorn male goatsclassical

    Male goats that have been shorn.

  2. 2.
    young goatsclassical

    Young male goats.

جَلَمnoun
  1. 1.
    long-legged sheepclassical

    A type of sheep with long legs and no wool on them, found in Taif.

  2. 2.
    male antelope/goatclassical

    A male antelope or goat.

جَلَامnoun
  1. 1.
    male antelope/goatclassical

    Plural of جلم, referring to male antelopes or goats.

مَجْلُومadjective
  1. 1.
    shornclassical

    Having been shorn or stripped.

جُلْمَانnoun
  1. 1.
    shearsclassical

    Dual form of جلم, referring to two shears or a pair of shears.

جُلَيْمnoun
  1. 1.
    moonclassical

    The moon, particularly the crescent.

جُلَمnoun
  1. 1.
    kid (goat)classical

    A young goat, or a male antelope/goat.

جُلَامnoun
  1. 1.
    kid (goat)classical

    Plural of جلم, referring to young goats or male antelopes/goats.

Parallel reading

(قطعه)
(he cut it)
(أخذ ما على عظامها من اللحم)
(he took the flesh off its bones)
(جزه بالجلم)
(he sheared it with shears)
لما أتيتم ولم تنجوا بمظلمة ... قيس القلامة مما جزه الجلم
When you came and did not escape from an injustice... Qais measured the clipping from what the shears sheared.
ما جز منه
what was shorn from it
شحم ثرب الشاة
the fatty tissue of the sheep
وهن مجلوم أي: (محلوق)
and they are shorn, meaning: (shaved/stripped)
أتته بمجلوم كأن جبينه ... صلاية ورس وسطها قد تفلقا
She brought him a shorn one whose forehead was like... a grinding stone, and a pit in its middle had split.
الشاة المسلوخة: إذا ذهبت أكارعها وفضولها
the shorn sheep: when its legs and excess parts are gone
لحمها أجمع
all of its meat
مسلوختها بلا حشو ولا قوائم
its shorn carcass without stuffing or limbs
جميع الشيء
the entirety of the thing
أخذه بجلمته، أي: بأجمعه
he took it with its entirety, meaning: all of it
التيوس المحلوقة
the shorn male goats
غنم طوال الأرجل لا شعر على قوائمها تكون بالطائف
sheep with long legs that have no wool on their limbs, found in Taif
هي شاء مكة
it is the sheep of Mecca
تيس الظباء والغنم
the male antelope and sheep
سواهم جذعانها كالجلام ... قد أقرح القود منها النسورا
Their young ones are like the male antelopes... the pursuit has made sores on them from the vultures.
شواسف مثل الجلام قب
Tall like the male antelopes before
ما يجز به الصوف والشعر
what wool and hair are shorn with
مما جزه الجلم
from what the shears sheared
داويت صدرا طويلا غمره حقدا ... منه وقلمت أظفارا بلا جلم
I treated a long chest overwhelmed by hatred... from it, and I trimmed nails without shears.
وهما جلمان
and they are two shears
القراد
the tick
سمة للإبل
a brand for camels
يسوق أشباها عليهن الجلم
He drives similar ones, bearing the brand of al-Jalam.
القمر
the moon
الهلال ليلة يهل
the crescent moon on the night it appears
الجدي
the kid (young goat)
الجلم، كما يقال المقراض والمقراضان، والقلم والقلمان
al-Jalman: al-Jalam, as one says al-Miqrad and al-Miqradan, and al-Qalam and al-Qalaman.
ولولا أياد من يزيد تتابعت ... لصبح في حافاتها الجلمان
And if not for successive favors from Yazid... the two shears would have been on its edges.
الجلم: لقب جماعة باليمن
Al-Jalam: a title for a group in Yemen.
جلم بن عمر و، له خبر مع النعمان بن المنذر
Jalam bin 'Amr, he has a story with Al-Nu'man bin Al-Mundhir.
جلموه، محركة: قرية بمصر من أعمال المرباصة
Jalamuh, movable: a village in Egypt from the districts of Al-Mirbasah.