عجم

عَجَمَهُ

To bite or chew something, especially with the lateral teeth; also to bite an object in order to test its hardness.

The object may be food, wood, a stick, a rod, or a gaming arrow.

• Lane · entry 2303

عَجَمَ

To try, test, examine, or prove a person, object, or matter.

By extension, affairs may test and inure a person, and an object may be examined through biting or other physical trial.

• Lane · entry 2303

عَجَمَتْهُ عَيْنِي

For the eye to seem to recognize someone without identifying him with certainty.

A conventional expression for uncertain recognition or a sense that one has seen someone before.

• Lane · entry 2303

عَجَمَ

To fail to determine or recognize the letters of a written text.

Used of looking into a book or writing without being sure of its letters.

• Lane · entry 2303

عَجَّمَ

To make speech, language, or expression unclear, inarticulate, or lacking correctness.

This is the making of speech difficult to understand, as opposed to marking writing so that its letters become distinguishable.

• Lane · entry 2306

أَعْجَمَ

To dot or diacritically mark a letter or writing so as to remove its ambiguity and distinguish it from similar letters.

Applied to the use of dots and related signs in writing; the marking clarifies the script rather than making speech unclear.

• Lane · entry 2306

أَعْجَمَ

To lock a door.

A separate conventional use of the Form IV verb.

• Lane · entry 2306

أَعْجَمَ النَّوَى

To cook date-stones until they become as though chewed or bitten.

Used in the reported expression concerning cooking date-stones too intensely and thereby spoiling their useful strength or taste.

• Lane · entry 2306

اِسْتَعْجَمَ

To become silent, speechless, or unable to speak; of a place, to give no answer.

May be used of a person, a dwelling, or another source of response that remains silent.

• Lane · entry 2308

اِسْتَعْجَمَ

For speech or recitation to become impeded, closed off, or impossible to continue.

Used of being tongue-tied or unable to continue reading or reciting, including when drowsiness interrupts recitation.

• Lane · entry 2308

اِسْتَعْجَمَ

For information or a report to become obscure, confused, vague, or difficult to understand or express.

The information is treated as though it were closed against the speaker or hearer.

• Lane · entry 2308

عَجْمٌ

Young camels, both male and female, before they enter the later age category.

A collective noun for specified young-camel age classes; the plural is عُجُومٌ.

• Lane · entry 2309

عَجْمٌ

The root or base of the tail, the coccyx.

A dialectal variant of عَجْبٌ according to the cited lexical discussion.

• Lane · entry 2309

عَجَمٌ

Foreigners, especially people who are not Arabs; the non-Arab peoples collectively.

It can refer particularly to Persians and may be used without implying that the person speaks Arabic poorly.

• Lane · entry 2311

عَجَمٌ

The stones, pits, or kernels of dates, grapes, raisins, pomegranates, lote-fruits, and similar things.

The singular is عَجَمَةٌ; the meaning may extend to the hard inner part of an edible thing.

• Lane · entry 2311

عَجَمٌ

Camels that bite or chew thorn trees and thereby satisfy themselves without other fodder.

A specialized descriptive use applied to camels feeding on thorny vegetation.

• Lane · entry 2311

عَجْمَةٌ

A hard rock protruding in a valley.

The plural is عَجَمَاتٌ.

• Lane · entry 2312

عُجْمَةٌ

Impediment, difficulty, or lack of clarity and correctness in speech, especially in speaking Arabic.

The noun denotes the condition of inarticulate or non-perspicuous utterance.

• Lane · entry 2313

عُجْمَةٌ

An accumulation or elevation of sand, including the last portion of sand.

It may denote sand congested together or rising above the surrounding ground.

• Lane · entry 2313

عَجَمَةٌ

A palm-tree growing from a date-stone.

A specialized noun connected with the date-stone meaning of عَجَمٌ.

• Lane · entry 2315

عَجْمِيّ

Intelligent and discriminating.

This is the separately vocalized adjective with a quiescent ج and is not the nisba meaning “of the non-Arabs.”

• Lane · entry 2316

عَجَمِيّ

Of or belonging to the non-Arabs; foreign in relation to the Arabs.

A nisba adjective that may be applied to a person or thing associated with the عَجَم.

• Lane · entry 2317

عَجَمِيَّةٌ

Speech or a language foreign to the Arabs.

The noun denotes foreign speech or language, without necessarily asserting that it is unintelligible.

• Lane · entry 2318

عُجَامَةٌ

A thing that has been bitten or chewed.

A noun formed from the act of biting or chewing.

• Lane · entry 2321

عَجَّامٌ

A large bat.

A specialized animal name.

• Lane · entry 2323

عَوَاجِمُ

The teeth; by extension, camels that bite or chew bones.

The plural noun is explained through the biting action of the teeth and the camels to which the action is attributed.

• Lane · entry 2325

عَجَمْجَمَةٌ

A strong she-camel, especially one strong and enduring enough for travel.

The expression may describe strength in the animal itself or strength for undertaking a journey.

• Lane · entry 2326

أَعْجَمُ

A person whose speech is impeded, unclear, or inarticulate, especially in Arabic.

The person may be Arab or non-Arab; the defining feature is the speech difficulty, not ethnic origin. The adjective may also describe speech, a tongue, or writing that lacks clarity.

• Lane · entry 2327

أَعْجَمُ

Dumb, speechless, or destitute of the faculty of speech.

Used of a person or other being unable to speak; the feminine form عَجْمَاءُ can become a substantive for a brute animal.

• Lane · entry 2327

عَجْمَاءُ

A beast or brute animal.

A substantivized feminine form, explained by the animal's inability to speak.

• Lane · entry 2327

فَحْلٌ أَعْجَمُ

A stallion camel whose braying does not issue from its faucial sac.

A specialized description of a camel whose vocal sac has no opening through which the sound can emerge.

• Lane · entry 2327

صَلَاةٌ عَجْمَاءُ

A daytime prayer in which Quran recitation is inaudible.

A conventional designation for the noon and afternoon prayers, referring to their non-vocalized recitation; it is not a Quranic verse citation.

• Lane · entry 2327

مَوْجٌ أَعْجَمُ

Waves that neither sprinkle their water nor produce an audible sound.

A figurative descriptive expression for unusually quiet or non-splashing waves.

• Lane · entry 2327

رَمْلَةٌ عَجْمَاءُ

A tract of sand in which there are no trees.

A specialized landscape description reported as an assumed figurative extension.

• Lane · entry 2327

أَعْجَمِيَّةٌ

Barbarous, defective, or otherwise non-chaste speech or language.

This usage emphasizes faulty or uncultivated expression rather than merely its being foreign.

• Lane · entry 2329

صُلْبُ المَعْجَمِ

Mighty, strong, resistant, or indomitable when tested by affairs or events.

Applied to a person of hardy spirit and, in a related expression, to a she-camel with strength and endurance for crossing the desert.

• Lane · entry 2330

حُرُوفُ المُعْجَمِ

The letters of the alphabet, especially the letters of a dotted script that are distinguished from one another by their points.

The expression is associated with the Arabic writing system and with the process of making letters distinguishable.

• Lane · entry 2331

مُعْجَمٌ

Locked, when applied to a door.

A separate passive-participial use from the lexical discussion of Form IV.

• Lane · entry 2331

مُعَجَّمٌ

A plant or herbage much bitten or eaten, with little remaining.

A passive participial description of vegetation heavily grazed or consumed.

• Lane · entry 2333