صمم

صَمَّ عَنْهُ

To be deaf to someone or something; to behave as though one did not hear it.

An idiomatic prepositional construction, conventionally described as tropical.

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صَمَّ

To make no sound or noise; to be silent or mute.

Includes descriptions of something producing no audible sound and figurative uses modeled on deafness.

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صَمَّ صَدَاهُ

For an echo to become silent; idiomatically, to perish.

An idiomatic or optative expression referring to the disappearance of a person's echo.

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صَمَامِ

A serpent; in proverbial usage, also calamity or war.

The serpent sense is described as primary in the cited lexical discussion; calamity and war are conventional extensions in expressions such as صَمِّي صَمَامِ.

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صَمَمٌ

Hardness, solidity, or compactness; the quality of being hard or compact.

Applied to stone, a spear shaft, and figuratively to a severe trial or civil conflict.

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صَمَّ القَارُورَةَ

To stop or seal a flask or bottle.

The stopper or sealing action may include securing the mouth or head of the container.

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صَمَّ الجُرْحَ

To bind a wound and apply a medicated bandage.

A transitive construction describing treatment of the wound.

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صَمَّهُ

To strike someone or something forcefully with a staff, stone, or similar object.

The passive expression صُمَّ describes being struck vehemently.

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صَمَّمَ

Of a sword, to penetrate into bone or pass through what it strikes, cutting or severing it.

The sword's penetration is distinguished from merely striking and cutting a joint.

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صَمَّمَ فِي الأَمْرِ

To persist firmly in an intended course until attaining it.

A figurative Form II construction describing adherence to an opinion, purpose, or undertaking.

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صَمَّمَ

To proceed with penetrating energy, sharpness, vigor, and effectiveness.

Applied to action, an undertaking, travel, or, in one usage, a horse.

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صَمَّمَ فِي عَضَّتِهِ

To bite firmly and fix the canine teeth in what is bitten without letting go.

A construction describing a tenacious bite.

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صَمَّمَ الفَرَسَ العَلَفَ

To enable a horse to take so much fodder that it becomes fat and replete.

A figurative Form II feeding construction.

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صَمَّمَ صَاحِبَهُ الحَدِيثَ

To make a companion retain a narrative or story in memory.

A figurative construction concerning memorization.

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أَصَمَّنِي الكَلَامَ

To divert someone from hearing speech, as though rendering the person deaf.

A figurative Form IV construction.

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أَصَمَّ

To cause a person or thing to make no sound, or to become as though unable to answer.

Includes figurative descriptions of silencing or making something deaf-like.

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أَصَمَّ اللهُ صَدَاهُ

To destroy someone, literally described as making the person's echo return no sound.

An imprecatory idiom based on the silence of an echo after death.

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أَصَمَّهُ

To find someone deaf or discover that a call has met with no hearing.

A Form IV usage distinct from causing deafness: the caller finds the person unresponsive to sound.

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تَصَامَّ

To feign deafness or pretend not to hear.

May be constructed with عَنْهُ or with the object of the ignored speech.

• Lane · entry 26502

صَمْصَمَ

Of a female hedgehog, to utter its cry.

A specialized animal usage.

• Lane · entry 26503

الصِّمُّ

A calamity or misfortune.

A lexical noun used as a name for calamity.

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الصِّمُّ

A lion.

A figurative designation associated with courage; its plural is also recorded.

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صِمَّةٌ

Courageous; bold in a way associated with disabling an opponent by a blow.

An epithet applied to a person.

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صِمَّةٌ

One whose blow renders the person struck deaf.

A specialized epithet emphasizing the effect of the blow.

• Lane · entry 26505

صِمَّةٌ

A male serpent.

A specialized animal noun with the plural صِمَمٌ.

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صِمَّةٌ

A female hedgehog.

A specialized animal noun, distinct from the verb describing its cry.

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صَمَامِ

Feign deafness and remain silent.

An imperative-like verbal noun used in the expression صَمَامِ صَمَامِ.

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صَمَامِ

Charge upon the enemy.

A fixed exhortatory use of the imperative-like verbal noun.

• Lane · entry 26507

صَمَامِ

A hard or severe calamity or misfortune.

The severity is understood as closed off from relief or deprecation.

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صِمَامٌ

A stopper, plug, or fastening placed in the mouth or head of a flask or bottle.

The term may distinguish the inserted stopper from the covering or binding tied over it.

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صِمَامٌ

The genital opening.

A rare anatomical usage, possibly understood as the place of a stopper; a transmitted variant is also reported.

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صَمِيمٌ

The principal supporting bone of a limb or member; by extension, the main support of something.

Used for the chief structural support, contrasted with a smaller accessory part.

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صَمِيمٌ

The heart or the middle and core of the heart.

A figurative anatomical extension of the central supporting part.

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صَمِيمٌ

The prime, principal, most essential, or choice part of a thing or group.

Includes being of the main stock or inner core of a people or party.

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صَمِيمٌ

The greatest intensity, vehemence, or violence, especially of heat or cold.

May also denote intensity or vehemence without specifying the absolute extreme.

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صَمِيمٌ

The hard outer shell of an egg.

A specialized concrete noun.

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صَمِيمٌ

Pure, unmixed, or genuine in race, lineage, or parentage.

An epithet applicable to a man, woman, pair, or plural group.

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صَمَّانٌ

Hard or rugged ground containing stones beside sand.

The related feminine form صَمَّانَةٌ is also recorded; the terrain is less than a mountain.

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صَمْصَمٌ

Extremely niggardly or tenacious.

A specialized epithet describing an extreme degree of holding back or holding on.

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صِمْصِمٌ

Thick, short and thick, or compact in build.

Applied especially to a man, horse, or mare; the exact physical nuance varies by cited authority.

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صِمْصِمٌ

Bold, daring, strong, robust, or hardy, proceeding with penetrating energy.

An epithet applied to people and animals, especially horses.

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صِمْصِمَةٌ

A company or collection of men.

A collective noun for a gathered group.

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صِمْصِمَةٌ

The middle or core of a people or party.

A figurative group usage related to centrality and compactness.

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صِمْصِمَةٌ

A rugged hill whose stones are nearly erect.

A specialized terrain noun.

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صَمْصَامٌ

A sharp, unbending sword.

The term may also function as the proper name of a particular sword.

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أَصَمُّ

Feigning deafness to what is displeasing while hearing what is pleasing.

A proverbial or figurative description of selective disregard.

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دَعْوَةُ الأَصَمِّ

A call made with extraordinary force.

An idiomatic expression based on calling as one would call a deaf person.

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ضَرْبُ الأَصَمِّ

Uninterrupted and excessive beating.

An idiomatic expression explaining the beating by the supposed deafness of the agent.

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لَمَعَ بِلَمْعِ الأَصَمِّ

To signal continually by waving a garment.

An idiomatic expression for signaling as though one could not hear a reply.

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حَيَّةٌ أَصَمُّ

A serpent that does not respond to charming or obey the charmer.

The deafness is figurative, denoting refusal to respond; the epithet صُمٌّ is likewise applied to scorpions.

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رَجُلٌ أَصَمُّ

A person whom one cannot win over or turn back from a desired object.

A figurative epithet based on refusing to hear calls or persuasion.

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دَهْرٌ أَصَمُّ

Inexorable fortune that does not hear complaints.

A figurative attribution of deafness to time or fate.

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فِتْنَةٌ صَمَّاءُ

A severe, hard-to-bear sedition, trial, or affair with no apparent way of being allayed.

A figurative adjective describing an event that has reached an extreme and is not open to relief.

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أَصَمُّ

Hard and solid, or compact and without a crack or hole.

Applied to stone, rock, or a compact spear shaft.

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أَرْضٌ صَمَّاءُ

Rugged or hard ground.

A specialized terrain description.

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الصَّمَّاءُ

The thin or slender extremity of the عِفَجَة, a digestive anatomical part.

A rare anatomical usage, explained through hardness or resemblance to a closed auditory passage.

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نَاقَةٌ صَمَّاءُ

A fat she-camel; according to one report, one that has just conceived or become pregnant.

A specialized animal epithet with variant explanations in the lexical evidence.

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اشْتِمَالُ الصَّمَّاءِ

A manner of wrapping oneself completely in a single garment, without leaving an opening for the hand.

A conventional dress term with differing detailed descriptions in legal and vernacular explanations.

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جَذْرٌ أَصَمُّ

A surd or irrational root in arithmetic.

A technical mathematical usage, contrasted with a rational root.

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صَوْتٌ مَصِمٌّ

A sound, noise, or voice that deafens the ear.

A specialized participial adjective describing an overpowering sound.

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أَلْفٌ مُصَمَّمٌ

A thousand made complete or exact.

A specialized figurative adjective, compared with مُصَمَّتٌ and مُصْمَتٌ.

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مُصَمِّمٌ

A sword that passes into or penetrates the bones of what it strikes.

A specialized active-participial noun for a penetrating sword.

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مُصَمِّمٌ

A strong camel; in another explanation, a camel patient in travel and not given to a grumbling cry.

A specialized animal epithet with variant lexical explanations.

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