خ ج م

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to terms of insult and potentially anatomical descriptions, though its usage is obscure and largely deprecated in classical Arabic.

Derived headwords

الخِجَامnoun

1.
wide vulvaclassical
A term referring to a woman with a wide vulva. It is considered an insult among Arabs.

خَجِيمname

1.
nicknameclassical
A nickname for Khuzaymah, the father of Hatim, who narrated from Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari.

Parallel reading

أهمله الجوهري.

Al-Jawhari ignored it.

وقال ابن بري: هي (المرأة الواسعة الهن) ، وهو سب عند العرب، يقولون: يا ابن الخجام،

And Ibn Bree said: It is (a woman with a wide vulva), and it is an insult among the Arabs, they say: O son of Al-Khijam,

وأنشد ابن السكيت في باب صفة النساء من الجماع: (بذاك أشفي النيزج الخجاما ... )

And Ibn Al-Sikkit recited in the chapter on describing women in intercourse: (With that I satisfy the Niyzij Al-Khajama...)

والنيزج: جهاز المرأة إذا نزا بظره.

And Al-Niyzij: a woman's apparatus when her gaze is aroused.

خجيم، كزبير: لقب خزيمة والد حاتم الذي روى عن محمد بن إسماعيل البخاري، وعنه عبد المؤمن بن خلف النسفي، قيده الحافظ.

Khajim, like Zubayr: a nickname for Khuzaymah, the father of Hatim, who narrated from Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, and from him Abd al-Mu'min ibn Khalaf al-Nasa'i, Al-Hafiz recorded it.