طمم

طَمَّ

Of water or a torrent: to become abundant, rise high, and predominate.

Used of water, a valley torrent, or a watercourse; the associated result may be that the torrent overwhelms its channel.

• Lane · entry 11680

طَمَّ

To fill, choke, or cover something so that it becomes level with the surrounding ground; to fill a vessel to overflowing.

Especially used of filling a well or other hollow with earth or dust, covering an object with earth, or filling a vessel until its contents overflow.

• Lane · entry 11680

طَمَّ

Of an affair, event, sedition, or calamity: to rise to prominence, prevail, become vehement, or become formidable.

A figurative extension of rising and predominating; it may describe an evil exceeding its ordinary limit or an event that overcomes others.

• Lane · entry 11680

طَمَّ

To mount or leap upon.

Used of a stallion mounting a mare and of a bird alighting or mounting on the top of a tree.

• Lane · entry 11680

طَمَّ

To move swiftly or run easily; to go forth across the earth.

Used of a man or horse and of easy, rapid running.

• Lane · entry 11680

طَمَّ

To trim or cut hair, including cutting it off entirely.

Used transitively with the hair or head; the amount removed may range from part of the hair to all of it.

• Lane · entry 11680

طَمَّ

To plait or twist hair.

A distinct hair-grooming usage from cutting or trimming.

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طَمَّمَ

To alight upon a branch.

A Form II usage applied to a bird.

• Lane · entry 11681

اِطَمَّ

Of hair: to reach or approach the time when it should be cut.

The Form IV expression describes hair as having grown to the point of needing cutting.

• Lane · entry 11682

اِنْطَمَّ

Of a rivulet, well, or similar depression: to become filled with earth or dust until level with the surrounding ground.

A Form VII intransitive resultative construction.

• Lane · entry 11683

طَمْطَمَ

To swim in the midst of the sea.

A reduplicated Form I usage.

• Lane · entry 11685

طَمْطَمَ

Of the sea: to become full.

A separate reported application of the reduplicated form to the sea itself.

• Lane · entry 11685

طَمْطَمَ

To have an impediment or barbarousness in speech, so that one does not speak clearly or correctly.

A speech-related usage of the reduplicated form; the statement concerns defective or indistinct utterance.

• Lane · entry 11685

طِمٌّ

The sea.

The noun is explained as referring to the sea because it overwhelms what is in it.

• Lane · entry 11687

طِمٌّ

Water, especially abundant water; also the rubbish, scum, or similar material floating on or driven along by water.

The water and surface-debris applications are reported as related uses of the noun.

• Lane · entry 11687

طِمٌّ

A large number or multitude.

A nominal extension illustrated in the expression الطِّمِّ وَالرِّمِّ.

• Lane · entry 11687

طِمٌّ

A wonderful or extraordinary thing.

A reported nominal meaning, synonymous with something astonishing or remarkable.

• Lane · entry 11687

طِمٌّ

A male ostrich.

The designation is associated in the source with the bird’s lightness of pace.

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طِمٌّ

A courser or swift horse.

The noun is associated either with quick, easy running or metaphorically with the sea.

• Lane · entry 11687

طِمٌّ

A large male.

A reported nominal use explained through the description of the head as bare or trimmed.

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طِمٌّ

Possibly a clever or capable person.

This meaning is reported in one lexicographical reading but is disputed as a likely transcription error for طَمٌّ, the filling or compressing sense.

• Lane · entry 11687

طُمَّةٌ

A company or congregated body of people, especially its midst.

Used for a gathered group and for the central part of that group.

• Lane · entry 11688

طُمَّةٌ

Error, deviation from the right course, confusion, or perplexity.

Describes being unable to see or follow the right course.

• Lane · entry 11688

طُمَّةٌ

Dirt or filth.

A noun meaning what is dirty or impure.

• Lane · entry 11688

طُمَّةٌ

Human dung.

Also used idiomatically in an expression for wallowing in one’s own dung.

• Lane · entry 11688

طُمَّةٌ

A portion of herbage, mostly dry or dried-up herbage.

A noun for a quantity or patch of such vegetation.

• Lane · entry 11688

طَمِمٌ

Hardy, strong, or sturdy.

An adjective applied in the cited usage to a mature or well-developed beast.

• Lane · entry 11689

طَمُومٌ

A swift horse.

An intensive adjectival description of a horse’s speed.

• Lane · entry 11690

طَمِيمٌ

A medley or multitude of people.

A nominal use for a mixed or numerous body of people.

• Lane · entry 11691

طَامَّةٌ

A cry, especially a vehement cry that overcomes everything.

A broader Classical Arabic specialization of the noun, distinct from its Quranic designation of the Resurrection.

• Lane · entry 11693

طِمْطِمٌ

A person whose speech is indistinct, incorrect, or impeded.

A noun for a speaker characterized by barbarousness or lack of clear articulation.

• Lane · entry 11694

طُمَاطِمٌ

Foreigners or non-Arabic-speaking people.

A reported plural application associated with طِمْطِمٌ; it occurs in an explanation of a poetic expression.

• Lane · entry 11694

طِمْطِمٌ

A kind of sheep with small ears and fleshy folds resembling an ox’s dewlaps.

A regional animal term associated with Yemen.

• Lane · entry 11694

طَمْطَمَةٌ

An impediment or barbarousness in speech that makes it unclear or incorrect.

The verbal noun of the speech-related reduplicated form.

• Lane · entry 11695

طَمْطَامٌ

The middle or central part of the sea.

A nominal derivative referring to the sea’s midst.

• Lane · entry 11699

طَمْطَامٌ

The main part or midst of a fire; much fire.

A figurative extension of the central or abundant mass, reported in a traditional expression.

• Lane · entry 11699

أَطَمُّ

More vehement or severe annoyance, molestation, harm, or hurt.

An intensive adjective used in a comparative or emphatic expression.

• Lane · entry 11701

أَطَامِيمُ

Legs of a beast.

A meaning reported in one lexicographical account and disputed by another account that understands the word as a speed adjective.

• Lane · entry 11702

أَطَامِيمُ

Brisk, active, or quick in pace.

An alternative interpretation of the word in a description of a she-camel or quick-moving beast.

• Lane · entry 11702

مَطْمُومٌ

Plaited or twisted hair.

A passive participial description of hair that has been arranged in this way.

• Lane · entry 11703

مَطْمُومٌ

A head whose hair has been cut off entirely.

A passive participial description of a closely shaven or completely cut head.

• Lane · entry 11703