صرم

صَرَمَ

To cut, cut through, cut off, or sever something.

A general physical cutting verb, including the separation of a rope, date cluster, tree, crop, or similar object.

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صَرْمٌ

To break off relations, abandon someone, or sever friendly intercourse; to separate from one another.

Includes reciprocal severance and the breaking of a bond of union.

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صَرَمَ

To decide or resolve an affair.

A figurative extension of cutting off alternatives or attachments.

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انْصَرَمَ

To become severed, separate, or come to an end.

Used of objects that become cut apart and of night, winter, a year, or fighting when it ends; it can also describe withdrawal from people.

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صَرَمَ

To stay, stop, or tarry for a period.

An independently attested usage, including staying with someone for a month.

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صَارِمٌ

Sharp and unbending, especially of a sword.

The participle is also used substantivally or adjectivally of a sword.

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صَرُمَ؛ صَارِمٌ

Hardy, strong, vigorous, penetrating, effective, and courageous.

Applied to a person by comparison with a sharp sword; it can also describe acquired endurance or hardiness.

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صَرَّمَ؛ تَصَرَّمَ

To cut repeatedly, extensively, or into many pieces; to become so cut or severed.

Form II emphasizes the extent or multiplicity of the cutting, while the quasi-passive form describes the resulting condition.

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أَصْرَمَ؛ صَرَامٌ

The time or season when palm fruit is cut or ripens for cutting.

أَصْرَمَ النخلَ refers to the palms reaching or approaching their cutting season.

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أَصْرَمُ؛ مُصْرِمٌ

Poor or possessing only a small amount of property.

The usage is associated with a person whose remaining property or camel herd is small, sometimes alongside a large household.

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صَرْمٌ

Skin or leather.

This noun is reported as an Arabicized loanword and is lexically distinct from the ordinary cutting noun.

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صِرْمٌ

A small encampment or company of people settled apart with their camels.

It may refer to a few separate tents or to the group inhabiting them.

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صِرْمٌ

A seller of soled boots.

A specialized lexical usage connected with the word for a soled leather boot.

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صَرْمَةٌ

A person slow to return from anger.

Used as a substantivized epithet for someone who does not readily relent.

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صِرْمَةٌ؛ صُرَيْمَةٌ

A detached herd or group of camels.

The reported size varies by authority; the diminutive صُرَيْمَةٌ denotes a smaller detached group.

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صِرْمَةٌ

A detached portion of property or a separated mass of clouds.

The common idea is a portion separated from a larger aggregate.

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صِرَامٌ

Palm trees themselves, by association with the cutting of their fruit.

A metonymic usage attested in traditional expression.

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صُرَامَةٌ

Fruit cut from palm trees.

Refers to the harvested produce rather than the season or act of harvesting.

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صُرَامٌ

The last milk remaining in an udder and drawn in necessity; figuratively, the final exhausted resource or limit.

The figurative sense occurs in a proverb about an excuse or matter reaching its utmost point.

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الصُّرَامُ

War, battle, or a calamity.

The word is used conventionally for a destructive conflict or misfortune.

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صَرُومٌ

A she-camel that separates herself from the other camels and does not approach the watering place until left alone.

The isolation is the defining behavioral feature of this animal term.

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صَرِيمٌ

Cut or severed; specifically, produce or a heap of grain whose produce has been cut off, or an ear cut off entirely.

A nominal/adjectival usage distinct from the Quranic comparison of the garden to darkness or reaped land.

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صَرِيمٌ

Disappointed, despairing, or wearied and eager in pursuit of an affair.

Occurs in the idiom جَاءَ صَرِيمَ سَحَرٍ and related expressions.

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صَرِيمَةٌ؛ صَرِيمٌ

A decision, determination, or firm resolution, together with its effective execution.

It may also denote the object or objective upon which one has firmly resolved.

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صَرِيمٌ

Daybreak or dawn.

The term is explained as dawn because it is cut off from the night; the same headword is also used for night in a contrasting conventional sense.

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صَرِيمٌ

Black land that produces nothing.

A specialized description of barren, dark ground.

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صَرِيمٌ

A stick placed across a young animal's mouth and tied to its head to prevent suckling.

A practical animal-husbandry term.

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صَرِيمَةٌ

Land whose seed crop has been reaped.

The form is a feminine derivative with passive-result meaning.

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صَرِيمَةٌ

A detached portion or large mass of sand.

It can describe a separate sand heap or detached sand formation.

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صَرِيمَةٌ

A group or detached assemblage of certain trees, including ghadhā, salam, arṭā, samar, or palms.

A collective term for trees gathered or standing as a detached group.

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صَرَامَةٌ

A person who follows his own judgment and acts with penetrating, vigorous effectiveness.

Used as an epithet derived from the qualities of decisive severance and energetic execution.

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صَارِمٌ

One who cuts, cuts through, or severs.

A general active-participle usage, broader than the Quranic construction concerning the fruit harvest.

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الصَّارِمُ

The lion.

A figurative designation based on the lion's force and ability to sever or overcome.

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صَيْرَمٌ

A calamity that extirpates or destroys everything.

A specialized intensive noun for an utterly destructive event.

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صَيْرَمٌ

Firmness or soundness of judgment.

A specialized abstract or descriptive usage.

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صَيْرَمٌ

A single meal eaten once in the day.

The term is explained through the idea that eating it cuts off further eating for the day.

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أَصْرَمُ

A man whose ear extremity has been cut off.

A bodily descriptive noun.

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صَرْمَاءُ؛ مُصَرَّمَةٌ

A she-camel whose milk supply has been cut off, especially through cutting or cauterizing the teats or their passages.

The resulting lack of milk is associated with strengthening or treating the animal.

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صَرْمَاءُ

A waterless desert or tract with no water.

A geographic descriptive noun.

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الأَصْرَمَانِ

The wolf and the crow, or, in another conventional pairing, the night and the day.

The pair is named for the separation of each member from people or from the other member.

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مَصْرِمٌ

A narrow place or channel through which water flows quickly.

The name is explained by the flow being quickly cut off from the place.

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مُصْرِمٌ

One who possesses a small detached herd of camels.

The derived noun can also refer more generally to a person of little property.

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مِصْرَمٌ

The curved knife used by a maker or parer of spindles.

A specialized tool term.

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صَرَّامٌ

A preparer or seller of skin or leather.

A professional designation derived from the specialized noun صَرْمٌ for leather.

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