Quranic root
جمم
j · m · m
The root centers on abundance together with gathering or accumulation: what is plentiful, collected, full, or assembled. A separate lexical branch denotes lacking a weapon or projecting feature.
From the idea of things collecting and becoming abundant arise fullness, gathered water, gathered strength and rest, masses of hair or vegetation, and assembled groups. The sources also preserve a distinct branch for being without a spear or horn, extended to things without projecting features.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
جَمّ
jamm
- Part of speech
- Adjective
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Very much, abundant, or immense; great in quantity or degree.
In Quran 89:20, it describes the great intensity or abundance of love for wealth in the construction حُبًّا جَمًّا.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 89:20word 4
“immense”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 89:20جَمًّۭاimmense
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 59 Classical meanings
جَمَّ
To become abundant or numerous; of water, to collect, return, and become plentiful.
Used of water, people, and other things that increase or collect.
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جَمَّ
To become full, or to fill a measure to its capacity.
Used of a measure that becomes full and of causing a measure to be filled.
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جَمَّ
Of a horse, to abstain from covering so that its seminal fluid collects.
A specialized equine usage concerning sexual covering and accumulated seminal fluid.
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جَمَّ
To recover from fatigue and regain strength; to rest.
Used especially of a horse, but also of a person.
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جَمَّ
Of a bone, to have or become covered with much flesh.
Applied to the fleshiness or abundance of flesh on a bone.
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جَمَّ
To become high or rise.
The source gives this as a separate lexical use, possibly of water in a well.
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جَمَّ
To rise or increase in pace or speed.
Used of the manner of an individual's going or movement.
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جَمَّ
To draw near or come to pass.
Used of an event, a person's arrival, separation from another, or an object of want.
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جَمَّ
Of a plant, to reach the stage at which it has a tuft, head, or flower-bud.
Used of specified grasses and plants attaining a developed tuft or bud.
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جَمَّ
Of a ram, sheep, or goat, to be hornless.
A specific animal description.
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جَمَّهُ
To leave water in a well so that it collects.
Used transitively of leaving a well or its water for accumulation.
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جَمَّهُ
To fill a measure so that it is full.
Includes the passive or intransitive description of a measure being filled.
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جَمَّمَ
Of land or herbage, to become abundant or develop into mature, dense growth.
Used of vegetation becoming like a جَمِيم or a full tuft of growth.
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جَمَّمَ
To make or arrange a جُمَّة, a mass or lock of head hair.
Used of styling the hair into the form called جُمَّة.
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أَجَمَّ
To leave a horse unridden so that it recovers from fatigue.
The causative/passive construction concerns giving the horse a period of rest.
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أَجَمَّ
To give someone or something rest or relief; to let land lie fallow.
Used of resting a person, relieving the heart, or giving cultivated land rest.
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أَجَمَّ
To give someone the collected supply of water from a well.
The object is the water that has accumulated after drawing.
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أُجِمَّ
Of a grapevine, to have its branches above ground cut off.
A specialized horticultural passive usage.
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اِسْتَجَمَّ
To gather or collect around someone, especially while standing in his presence.
Used in the reported expression for people assembling closely around a person.
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اِسْتَجَمَّ
A collected supply of water remaining after water has been drawn from a well.
The source illustrates the supply as subsequently being drunk.
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جَمْجَمَ
To speak indistinctly or unclearly.
The source distinguishes the usage from speech caused by physical incapacity in one reported explanation.
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جَمْجَمَ
To conceal speech or a matter in one's breast and not reveal it.
Used transitively with a thing concealed inwardly.
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جَمْجَمَ
To destroy or kill another person or others.
A separate reported lexical use of the Form R.Q. verb.
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تَجَمْجَمَ
To hold back from an affair and not dare to undertake it.
A figurative idiomatic construction with عَنِ الأَمْرِ.
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جَمٌّ
The greater or main portion of midday, especially the summer midday.
A temporal nominal use distinct from the adjective meaning abundant.
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جَمٌّ
The collected water of a well, or the place in which that water collects.
The source distinguishes the collected water from the place of collection, while recording both under this lexical family.
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جَمٌّ
A large company or group of people assembled together.
Used in expressions for people coming together in great numbers or as a collective body.
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جَمٌّ
People of the lowest, basest, or meanest sort.
A specialized collective nominal usage.
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جَمٌّ
The measuring of a vessel up to the head or top of the measure.
A technical measurement expression.
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جَمَّةٌ
The part or place of a ship in which leaking water collects.
A nautical technical usage.
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جَمَّةٌ
A company that comes to demand bloodwit, an obligation, peace, or another requested matter.
A conventional social and legal usage; the group is defined by its collective purpose.
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جُمَّةٌ
The collective mass of head hair, especially abundant hair hanging toward or beyond the ears and shoulders.
The sources record varying traditional limits for the length of a جُمَّة; the central meaning is a substantial gathered mass of head hair. The related adjective may describe a person having such long or abundant hair.
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جُمَّةٌ
A tuft or flower-bud of a plant from which the flower emerges.
A figurative or specialized plant usage connected with the idea of a gathered tuft.
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جُمَّةٌ
Possibly the husk or outer covering of a walnut.
Reported tentatively in a tropical expression; the interpretation is not presented as certain.
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جَمَامٌ
A state or period of rest, especially the rest of a horse.
A nominal expression for recovery or respite after exertion.
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جُمَامٌ
The seminal fluid of a horse collected after it has rested from covering.
A specialized equine noun.
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جُمَامٌ
The quantity placed in a vessel or measure, especially what rises above its head after filling; also a full bowlful.
Used chiefly of flour and similar substances, with related usage for a bowlful of water.
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جَمُومٌ
A well possessing much or abundant water.
A descriptive noun or adjective applied to a well.
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جَمُومٌ
A horse that continues to run repeatedly or goes much after each run.
Applied to either a male or female horse.
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جَمَامَةٌ
The state of being satiated or satisfied with food or drink.
A nominal state of full satisfaction.
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جُمَّى
The bean or beans, synonymous with باقِلَّى.
A plant or food term.
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جُمْجُمَةٌ
The skull or bones of the head; by extension, a head or a person.
The anatomical sense concerns the bone enclosing the brain; the head/person sense is a metonymic use in taxation and similar expressions.
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جُمْجُمَةٌ
A wooden or glass bowl.
A separate vessel sense of the noun.
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جُمْجُمَةٌ
A measure for corn, grain, or similar commodities.
A technical measure sense.
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جُمْجُمَةٌ
A chief, leading tribal group, or powerful and eminent tribe that encompasses subordinate clans.
A figurative collective use based on the head as the noblest or encompassing part.
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جُمْجُمَةٌ
A well dug in salty or saline ground.
A specialized place-name-like lexical use.
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جُمْجُمَةٌ
A group of sixty camels.
A traditional counting term.
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جَمَاجِمُ الحَارِثِ
The piece of wood at the head of a plough to which the ploughshare is attached.
A technical agricultural term.
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أَجَمُّ
Greater or greatest in quantity, number, or extent.
A comparative or superlative adjective; the source also applies it to the greatest amount of revelation in a reported expression.
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أَجَمُّ
Of a bone, having much flesh upon it.
A descriptive bodily adjective distinct from the related Form I usage.
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أَجَمُّ / جَمَّاءُ
Hornless; figuratively, without a spear or other weapon.
Applied to rams, sheep, goats, and, figuratively, to people or horses lacking a spear in battle.
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جَمَّاءُ
Smooth, low, or without projecting or raised features.
Applied figuratively to buildings or mosques without ornamental projections, flat roofs without parapets, and things or persons lacking elevation.
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جَمَّاءُ
The anterior pudendum of a woman.
A specialized anatomical usage recorded as figurative.
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جَمَّاءُ
A bowl.
A figurative usage connected in the source with the smooth or unprojecting sense.
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جَمَّاءُ
A helmet.
A figurative usage attributed to its smoothness and coverage of the head.
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مَجَمٌّ
The breast, bosom, or mind as the place where knowledge and concerns are gathered and retained.
A figurative idiom describing breadth or constriction of mind.
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مَجَمَّةٌ
A place or thing in which resting normally takes place.
A place noun derived from the rest sense.
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مُجَمَّمٌ
A boy whose head bears a mass of hair called a جُمَّة.
A descriptive participial adjective referring specifically to the boy's hairstyle.
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مُجَمِّمَةٌ
A woman who arranges her hair into a جُمَّة.
A descriptive feminine participle concerning the styling of the hair.
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