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Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to concepts of slowness, immaturity, and poor nourishment, extending to physical descriptions and even specific types of materials or objects.

Derived headwords

القَرْقَمnoun
  1. 1.
    glans penisclassical

    The glans of the male organ.

المُقَرْقَمadjective
  1. 1.
    slow to matureclassical

    One who is slow to develop or mature, often due to poor upbringing or nourishment. It is compared to the Persian term 'shirzadeh'.

قَرْقَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to nourish poorlyclassical

    To provide poor nourishment or sustenance, leading to slow growth or immaturity.

القَرْقَمَةnoun
  1. 1.
    linen garmentsclassical

    White linen clothing.

تَقَرْقَمَverb
  1. 1.
    to huddleclassical

    Wild animals huddling or gathering within their dens.

القِرْقَمَانnoun
  1. 1.
    wood rotclassical

    A substance that forms in the center of old wood, particularly within the core of date palm trunks.

Parallel reading

بعينيك وغف إذ رأيت ابن مرثد يقسبرها بقرقم يتزبد
By your eyes and heedlessness when you saw Ibn Murthad probing it with a frothing glans.
هو البطىء الشباب يسميه الفرس شيرزده
He is the slow one in youth, whom the Persians call Shirzadeh.
ما قرقمني إلا الكرم
Nothing has made me lean except generosity.
أي: إنما جئت ضاويا لكرم آبائي وسخائهم [بطعامهم] عن بطونهم
Meaning: I have only come weakened due to the generosity and liberality of my ancestors [with their food] at the expense of their own sustenance.
أشكو إلى الله عيالا دردقا مقرقمين وعجوزا سملقا
I complain to God about dependent children, weak and poorly nourished, and an old woman, frail.
القرقمة: ثياب كتان بيض
Al-Qarqamah: white linen garments.
تقرقم الوحش في وجاره: تقبض
Wild animals huddle in their dens: they draw in.
القرقمان: اسم لما يسوس في وسط الأخشاب العتيقة
Al-Qarqaman: the name for what becomes rotten in the middle of old wood.
وقد يخص بما في ذلك داخل المقل
And it may be specific to what is inside the core of the palm tree.