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Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root appears to be related to concepts of baseness, meanness, and ill-repute. It describes someone or something as being of poor quality, ill-mannered, or morally corrupt.

Derived headwords

الدَّرْغَمnoun
  1. 1.
    base, vile personclassical

    A person who is base, vile, and ill-mannered.

الدَّعْرَمnoun
  1. 1.
    base, vile personclassical

    Similar to 'ad-dargham', referring to a base, vile, and ill-mannered person.

الدَّرْعَمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    baseness, villainyclassical

    The quality of being base, villainous, and ill-bred.

الدَّعْرَمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    baseness, villainyclassical

    Similar to 'ad-darcamah', denoting baseness, villainy, and meanness.

Parallel reading

هو الدرغم، كزبرج
He is ad-dargham, like zubruj.
والغين معجمة كما في النسخ، والصواب إهمالها
And the ghayn is dotted as in the manuscripts, but the correct reading is to omit it.
أهمله الجوهري
Al-Jawhari considered it negligible.
وقال ابن سيده: هو الرديء البذيء
And Ibn Sidah said: He is the base, the vulgar.
كالدعرم وسيأتي
Like ad-da'ram, and it will be mentioned later.
الدرعمة: لؤم وخب
Ad-darcamah: meanness and villainy.
كالدعرمة
Like ad-da'ramah.