عمم

عَمَّ

To become common, general, or universal; to include or affect people or things collectively.

Can be intransitive, describing something becoming widespread, or transitive, describing its encompassing persons, things, land, or an effect.

• Lane · entry 4668

عَمَّ

To make long or tall; to become long or tall.

• Lane · entry 4668

عَمَّ

To become a paternal uncle.

A lexical use distinct from the kinship noun عَمّ.

• Lane · entry 4668

تَعْمِيم

Generalization; making something common, general, or universal, as opposed to specification.

A verbal noun denoting the act or result of generalizing.

• Lane · entry 4669

عَمَّمَ

To put a turban on someone; to wind a turban around the head.

• Lane · entry 4669

عَمَّمَ

To make someone a chief or lord, entrusting him with authority over others.

A figurative extension from investing someone with a turban as a mark of leadership.

• Lane · entry 4669

عَمَّمَ

To equip or cover someone with a sword.

A specialized construction recorded by analogy with clothing or covering.

• Lane · entry 4669

عَمَّمَ

To cut or wound someone at the head, especially at the place of the turban.

A figurative sword construction.

• Lane · entry 4669

عَمَّمَ

For milk to froth.

A figurative use likening the foam to a turban.

• Lane · entry 4669

أُعِمَّ / أَعَمَّ

To have many paternal uncles, or paternal uncles known for generosity.

The passive and active forms are both reported for this meaning.

• Lane · entry 4670

تَعَمَّمَ

To call someone a paternal uncle.

A causative or relational use in which a person is treated or addressed as an uncle.

• Lane · entry 4671

اِعْتَمَّ

To put a turban, helmet, or war headgear on oneself.

The construction may take the turban or related headgear as its object.

• Lane · entry 4672

اِعْتَمَّ

To become crowned or covered, as hills with plants or mountain tops with sunlight.

A figurative extension of turbaning or covering.

• Lane · entry 4672

اِعْتَمَّ

For vegetation to reach full height, blossom, and become luxuriant or dense.

• Lane · entry 4672

اِعْتَمَّ

For a young man to become tall.

• Lane · entry 4672

اِعْتَمَّ

For a bovine animal to have all its teeth grown.

• Lane · entry 4672

اِسْتَعَمَّمَ

To take or adopt someone as a paternal uncle.

The object is someone treated as an uncle by adoption or convention.

• Lane · entry 4673

عَمْعَمَ

To acquire a numerous army or military force after previously having few.

A rare reduplicated form.

• Lane · entry 4674

عَمّ

A company or numerous group of men, and according to some, a group from a tribe.

A collective noun for a group of people.

• Lane · entry 4677

عَمّ

Extended paternal-side kinship, including a paternal great-uncle and paternal-cousin relations.

Occurs in expressions such as ابن عمّ, whose precise degree of paternal kinship may be close or distant.

• Lane · entry 4677

عَمّ

Tall, full-grown, abundant vegetation, especially tall palms; also herbs collectively.

A specialized nominal use applied to vegetation.

• Lane · entry 4677

عِمَّة

The manner of wearing a turban; in later or colloquial use, a turban itself.

• Lane · entry 4681

عَمَم

The state of being gathered together and numerous or abundant.

• Lane · entry 4682

عَمَم

Largeness or bigness of build.

Applied to people and other things.

• Lane · entry 4682

عَمَم

Completeness, full development, or absence of deficiency; by extension, a complete or fully accomplished affair.

Applied to a body or shoulder, a fully developed bovine animal, or an affair described as complete and generally established.

• Lane · entry 4682

عُمُم

Completeness of bodily growth, stature, wealth, or youthful vigor; maturity or full development.

Often used in the construction اِسْتَوَى عَلَى عُمُمِهِ, describing attainment of completeness or maturity.

• Lane · entry 4683

عَمِيم

Complete, full, or without deficiency; also collected and abundant.

The adjective may describe a thing or a plentiful collection.

• Lane · entry 4685

عَمِيم

Reaching or extending to everything; pervasive.

Recorded especially of perfume.

• Lane · entry 4685

عَمِيم

Tall or complete in stature and build.

Applied to a man, plant, palm tree, girl, or young woman where the source explicitly records those uses.

• Lane · entry 4685

عَمِيم

The purest, choicest, or main stock of a group.

Used in the expression مِنْ عَمِيمِهِمْ, synonymous with being of their main stock or finest part.

• Lane · entry 4685

عَمِيم

Dry barleygrass of the species called بُهْمَى.

A technical botanical use.

• Lane · entry 4685

عِمَامَة

A turban, the cloth wound around the head; by extension, a helmet or similar headgear.

The helmet sense is recorded as a figurative extension.

• Lane · entry 4686

عَمَّة / عَامَة

A raft made of pieces of wood bound together for travel on the sea or across a river.

The form is reported under this entry, but the source also states that the corrected form may be عَامَةٌ rather than the geminated spelling.

• Lane · entry 4686

عَمَوِيّ

Relating to a paternal uncle.

A relational adjective derived from عَمّ.

• Lane · entry 4687

عُمِّيّ

Of the common sort; ordinary or vulgar.

The spelling and analysis of this rare form are reported with uncertainty in the lexical discussion.

• Lane · entry 4689

عُمِّيَّة

Pride, haughtiness, or arrogance.

Variant vocalizations are recorded.

• Lane · entry 4690

عَمَاعِم

Companies of people in a scattered or dispersed state.

A plural form for which no singular is supplied in the entry.

• Lane · entry 4691

عَامّ

Common, general, universal, or comprehensive.

A participial adjective of عَمَّ, often contrasted with خَاصّ.

• Lane · entry 4692

عَامّ

A general term whose single application covers all items to which it applies.

A grammatical or logical technical usage, distinguished from a homonym, a restricted numeral, or an indeterminate plural.

• Lane · entry 4692

العَامَّة

The common people, commonalty, or generality of people, as opposed to the distinguished or particular group.

• Lane · entry 4693

عَامَّة

Generally, collectively, or universally; sometimes the greater part or the whole of a specified period.

Examples include the greater part of a month and the whole of a day.

• Lane · entry 4693

عَامَّة

A general or universal drought.

• Lane · entry 4693

عَامَّة

The resurrection.

A specialized designation based on its association with universal death before the resurrection.

• Lane · entry 4693

عَامِّيّ

Of or relating to the common people; common or vulgar, especially of a word or expression.

• Lane · entry 4694

أَعَمّ

More or most general or comprehensive.

Used comparatively of a word or expression in respect of breadth of signification.

• Lane · entry 4695

أَعَمّ

Thick, full-sized, or complete in build.

Recorded of the middle of a she-camel.

• Lane · entry 4695

مُعَمّ

Having many or generous paternal uncles; in the fuller expression, having generous paternal and maternal uncles.

• Lane · entry 4696

مِعَمّ

Good or very good in a way that extends goodness and abundant bounty to people generally.

An epithet emphasizing inclusive generosity.

• Lane · entry 4698

مُعَمَّم

Turbaned or wearing a turban.

• Lane · entry 4700

مُعَمَّم

A chief or lord invested with authority over a people.

A figurative extension from being turbaned as a mark of leadership.

• Lane · entry 4700

مُعَمَّم

Having white markings on the head, forelock, or ears while the neck remains unmarked.

Applied especially to horses and other animals, including a sheep or goat with a white head.

• Lane · entry 4700

مُعْتَمَّة

Having abundant and tall vegetation.

Applied to a meadow or similar tract of land.

• Lane · entry 4701