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د خ ش م

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with the concept of being large, stout, or bulky, often with a negative connotation of being short or ill-proportioned. It also extends to personal names.

Derived headwords

الدَّخْشَمُnoun
  1. 1.
    Large, black creatureclassical

    Refers to a large, black creature or being, often described with a negative or imposing physical characteristic.

الدَّخْشَمُnoun
  1. 1.
    Short personclassical

    Describes a person who is short in stature, possibly implying a lack of proportion.

دَخْشَمname
  1. 1.
    Male given nameboth

    A proper name for a male individual.

Parallel reading

دخشم، كجعفر وقنفذ: الضخم الأسود
Ad-dakhsham, like Ja'far and Qunfudh: the large, black one.
زعم قوم أنه من الدخش فميمه زائدة
A group claimed it is from ad-Dakhsh, and its 'meem' is superfluous.
الدخشم كقنفذ: القصير
Ad-Dakhsham, like Qunfudh: the short one.
إذا ثنت أسحج غير دخشم
When you bend a strong one that is not short.
وأرجفته رجفان الكرزم
And the shaking of the water-skin made it tremble.
وقد ذكر المصنف هذا في تركيب د خ ش، فراجعه
And the author mentioned this in the entry for D-KH-SH, so refer to it.
دخشم: اسم رجل كما في الصحاح
Dakhsham: a man's name, as in As-Sahah.
واختار ابن عصفور أنه علم مرتجل
And Ibn 'Usfur chose that it is an improvised proper noun.
ورده أبو حيان بما مر من أن الارتجال لا ينافي الاشتقاق
Abu Hayyan refuted him with what has passed regarding improvisation not contradicting derivation.
ومالك بن الدخشم بن مالك بن غنم الأنصاري عقبي بدري، رضي الله تعالى عنه
And Malik bin Ad-Dakhsham bin Malik bin Ghanam Al-Ansari was an 'Aqabi and Badr participant, may God be pleased with him.