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Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of breaking, cracking, or splitting something without complete separation or severance. It extends to ideas of cessation, detachment, and even specific physical attributes like a large or broken object.

Derived headwords

فَصَمَهُ يَفْصِمُهُ فَصْمًاverb
  1. 1.
    to break without severingboth

    To break something, such as a bone or object, causing a crack or split but without it falling apart completely.

انْفَصَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to break, to splitboth

    To become broken or split, often used intransitively to describe something cracking without complete separation.

  2. 2.
    to break off, to ceaseclassical

    To break off or cease, as in the cessation of a fever or the breaking of a bond.

لا انفصام لها — it has no breaking or splitting
تَفَصَّمَverb
  1. 1.
    to be brokenclassical

    To be broken or split, often used as a passive or intransitive form, indicating that something has cracked or split.

فَصْمًاnoun
  1. 1.
    a break, a crackboth

    The act or instance of breaking or cracking something without complete severance.

انْفِصَامnoun
  1. 1.
    breaking, splittingboth

    The state or act of being broken or split, particularly without complete separation.

  2. 2.
    incurability, permanenceclassical

    Used in the phrase 'la infisama laha' referring to something that cannot be broken or severed, implying permanence or incurability.

مَفْصُومadjective
  1. 1.
    broken, crackedboth

    Describing something that has been broken or cracked without being completely severed.

في ملعب من جواري الحي مفصوم — in a playground of the neighborhood's girls, broken
فَصِيمadjective
  1. 1.
    large, thickclassical

    Used to describe a large or thick object, specifically a large axe.

وفأس فصيم — and a large axe
أَفْصَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to cease, to stopclassical

    To cease or stop, used in reference to the abatement of fever or the clearing of rain.

وأفصمت عنه الحمى: أقلعت — and the fever ceased from it: it stopped
فَصْمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    a crack, a fissureclassical

    A crack or fissure, particularly one in a wall.

فَصَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to collapse, to fall downclassical

    To collapse or fall down, used in reference to a side of a house.

وفصم جانب البيت: انهدم — and the side of the house collapsed: it fell down
أَفْصَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to become aroused, to mountclassical

    Used for a male animal (stallion) becoming sexually aroused or ready to mount.

وأفصم الفحل إذا جفر — and the stallion becomes aroused when it is ready
فَصِيمnoun
  1. 1.
    broken piececlassical

    That which has broken off from something, such as a piece of a miswak stick.

وفصم السواك: ما انكسر منه — and the broken piece of the miswak: what broke off from it
أَفْصَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to become detachedclassical

    To become detached or separated, used to describe an anklet becoming loose.

فكل كعاب تترك الحجل أفصما — so every shapely woman leaves the anklets detached

Parallel reading

لا انفصام لها
it has no breaking or splitting
درة بيضاء ليس لها فصم ولا وصم
a white pearl that has no crack or blemish
الفصم: أن ينصدع الشيء من غير بينونة
Al-fasm: is for something to crack without complete separation.
وقد فصمه فصما: فعل به ذلك
And he broke it with a fasma: he did that to it.
فهو مفصوم
and it is broken
كأنه دملج من فضة نبه ... في ملعب من جواري الحي مفصوم
As if it were a bracelet of silver, forgotten... in a playground of the neighborhood's girls, broken.
وأما القصم، بالقاف فهو كسر بينونة
As for al-qasm, with a Qaf, it is a breaking with separation.
وأفصمت عنه الحمى: أقلعت
And the fever ceased from it: it stopped.
فيفصم عني
then it ceases from me
وفأس فصيم
and a large axe
وفصم جانب البيت، كعني: انهدم
And the side of the house collapsed, as if it meant: it fell down.
فكل كعاب تترك الحجل أفصما
so every shapely woman leaves the anklets detached.
وانفصم: انقطع
And infasama: it broke off.
انفصم ظهره: انصدع
His back broke: it cracked.
وانفصمت الدرة: انصدعت ناحية منها
And the pearl cracked: a side of it split.
والفصمة: الصدعة في الحائط
And al-fasmah: the crack in the wall.
به داء يفصم ولا يفصم
He has a disease that breaks but does not cease.
وأفصم الفحل إذا جفر
And the stallion becomes aroused when it is ready.
كل فحل يفصم إلا الإنسان
Every stallion becomes aroused except for humans.
وفصم السواك: ما انكسر منه
And the broken piece of the miswak: what broke off from it.