ك ن م

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root appears to be related to wounds, calamities, and a specific group of people from Sudan, along with a place name and a poet associated with it. The connection between these meanings is not immediately clear and may involve phonetic shifts.

Derived headwords

الكِنْمَةnoun

1.
woundclassical
A wound, specifically a significant injury.
2.
calamityclassical
A grave or devastating misfortune or disaster.

النِّكْمَةnoun

1.
calamityclassical
A grave or devastating misfortune or disaster.

كانِمname

1.
people of Sudanclassical
A group or class of people from Sudan.

كانِمname

1.
place nameclassical
A town or region located in the vicinity of Ghana, known as the seat of the king of the Sudanic lands in the southwest.

الكانِمِيّname

1.
poetclassical
A famous poet from the Kanem region or people, identified as Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mu'min al-Kanimi.

Parallel reading

أهمله الجوهري والليث، وذكر الفتح مستدرك.

Al-Jawhari and Al-Layth neglected it, and mentioning the فتحه (fatḥa) is an addition.

هي (الجراحة).

It is (a wound).

والنكمة: المصيبة الفادحة.

And al-nikmah: the grave calamity.

وكأن الميم فيهما بدل عن الباء، والأصل الكنبة، والنكبة فتأمل.

And it is as if the mim in both is a substitute for the ba', and the origin is al-kinbah and al-nikbah, so ponder.

وكانم كصاحب: صنف من السودان.

And kanim, like saahib: a class of the Sudan.

والصحيح أن كانم: بلدة بنواحي غانة، وهي دار ملك السودان، الذي بجنوب الغرب.

And the correct view is that Kanem: is a town in the vicinity of Ghana, and it is the seat of the king of the Sudan, who is in the southwest.

حققه ابن خلكان، وكذا الشريف الإدريسي في ((نزهة المشتاق)).

Ibn Khallikan verified it, as did Al-Sharif Al-Idrisi in 'Nuzhat al-Mushtaq'.

والكانمي: شاعر مشهور منهم.

And al-Kanimi: a famous poet among them.

وهو أبو يوسف يعقوب بن يوسف بن عبد المؤمن الكانمي، ترجمه ابن خلكان وغيره.

And he is Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Yusuf ibn Abd al-Mu'min al-Kanimi; Ibn Khallikan and others translated his biography.