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Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root entry primarily discusses a specific Arab lineage named الضجاعم (al-Ḍijāʿam) and الضجاهمة (al-Ḍajāhima), who were kings in the Levant before the Ghassanids. It also mentions a personal name derived from this lineage.

Derived headwords

ضَجْعَمname
  1. 1.
    A personal nameclassical

    A name referring to an individual, specifically الضجعم بن سعد بن عمر (al-Ḍijʿam ibn Saʿd ibn ʿUmr), who was also known by the epithet سليح (Saliḥ).

الضَّجَاعِمname
  1. 1.
    A lineage of kingsclassical

    The name of a specific Arab lineage, الضجاعم (al-Ḍijāʿam), who were rulers in the Levant prior to the rise of the Ghassanids.

الضَّجَاهِمَةname
  1. 1.
    A lineage of kingsclassical

    An alternative name for the Arab lineage الضجاعم (al-Ḍijāʿam), also referring to them as rulers in the Levant before the Ghassanids.

Parallel reading

ضجعم كقنفذ وجعفر
Ḍijʿam, like qunfudh (hedgehog) and Jaʿfar.
وهو (أبو بطن) من العرب
And he is (the father of a tribe) from the Arabs.
وهو ضجعم بن سعد بن عمر والملقب بسليح بن حلوان بن عمران
And he is Ḍijʿam ibn Saʿd ibn ʿUmr, nicknamed Saliḥ, son of Ḥilwān ibn ʿImrān.
وهم الضجاعم والضجاهمة، كانوا ملوكا بالشام قبل غسان
And they are al-Ḍijāʿam and al-Ḍajāhima, they were kings in the Levant before Ghassan.
منهم داوود بن هبولة ابن عمرو، وعمرو بن مندلة وغيرهما
Among them were Dāwūd ibn Habūla ibn ʿAmr, and ʿAmr ibn Mandala, and others.
زادوه هاء للنسبة كما زادوا في البرامكة والبطارقة وغيرها
They added a 'hāʾ' to it for attribution, just as they added to al-Barāmika (the Barmakids) and al-Baṭāriqa (the Patriarchs) and others.