Quranic root
خيم
kh · y · m
The root centers on remaining, settling, and being established in a place.
The tent is the concrete image of a settled dwelling, while related lexical branches extend to staying in a place, innate disposition, and cowardly stillness. These branches are kept distinct from the Quranic noun meaning.
- Maqāyīs · row 1686
- Lane · entry 20488
- Lane · entry 20489
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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.
خَيْمَةٌ
khaymahun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
A tent, pavilion, or booth used as a dwelling or shelter.
The Quranic form is the plural خِيَام, occurring in a description of pavilions. The lexical item covers tent-like structures whose materials and construction may vary.
- Lane · entry 20497
Selected Quran examples
Quran 55:72word 4
“the pavilions”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 55:72ٱلْخِيَامِthe pavilions
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 17 Classical meanings
خَامَ
To hold back or refrain through cowardice or fear; to draw back from a war, encounter, conflict, or a devised stratagem.
Form I. The object may be a person or thing, and the withdrawal may be expressed with or without an accompanying preposition.
- Lane · entry 20488
خَامَ
To raise a leg or foot.
Form I; a distinct physical use from the sense of cowardly withdrawal.
- Lane · entry 20488
خَيَّمَ
To pitch or fix a tent; hence to remain, stay, dwell, alight, or sojourn in a place; also, to enter a tent.
Form II. The same verb is used of a wild animal remaining in its covert and, tropically, of an odor remaining or clinging in a garment or place.
- Lane · entry 20489
خَيَّمَ
To make something like a tent.
Form II causative construction, distinct from simply pitching or occupying a tent.
- Lane · entry 20489
خَيَّمَ
To cover something so that its odor clings to it.
A tropical or assumed-tropical Form II construction involving the retention of an odor.
- Lane · entry 20489
أَخَامَ
For a horse or other creature to stand on three legs, raising one leg; more generally, to be unable to place one leg or foot firmly on the ground because of a defect.
Form IV, in the construction إِخَامَةُ الفَرَسِ and related descriptions of impaired weight-bearing.
- Lane · entry 20490
أَخَامَ
To construct a tent.
Form IV; a causative tent-building use.
- Lane · entry 20490
تَخَيَّمَ
To pitch or establish one's tent at a place.
Form V, normally construed with a place expression.
- Lane · entry 20491
خَامٌ
Raw, untreated, or unprepared material.
Applied to untanned or lightly tanned hides, unwashed or unbleached cloth, unprocessed goods, and date honey untouched by fire. It is also applied to paper, although the supplied wording is uncertain as to whether the paper is polished or unpolished.
- Lane · entry 20493
خِيمٌ
Natural or innate disposition, temperament, or character; especially the original condition of the soul, including generosity or liberality of disposition.
A collective or defective plural-like form with no ordinary singular of its own in the cited explanation.
- Lane · entry 20495
خِيمٌ
The diversified wavy marks, streaks, or grain seen in a sword.
A technical descriptive use for the patterned surface of a sword.
- Lane · entry 20495
خِيمٌ
A plant of the ḥamḍ kind.
The identification is reported tentatively in the supplied lexical evidence.
- Lane · entry 20495
خَامَةٌ
A fresh, juicy young growth of grain or other seed-produce; an ear, shoot, or fresh bunch or plant thereof.
Used of growth appearing on a single stalk and of its fresh or juicy form; the plural is خَامَاتٌ.
- Lane · entry 20496
خَيْمَةٌ
An extended or figurative application of a tent: a place of abode, a woman's howdah likened to a tent, or a divine tabernacle.
These are extensions, comparisons, or assumed-tropical applications of the tent sense, rather than additional Quranic senses of the supplied occurrence.
- Lane · entry 20497
خَامِيٌّ
A preparer of hides of the kind called خَامٌ.
A professional designation derived from the raw-hide sense.
- Lane · entry 20498
خَيَّامٌ
A person who applies himself to making tents or booths.
An occupational noun associated with خَيْمَةٌ.
- Lane · entry 20500
مَخِيمٌ
A collection of bundles or handfuls of reaped seed-produce.
A nominal formation referring to gathered bundles of harvested grain or similar produce.
- Lane · entry 20501
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic form is attested once, as the plural خِيَام, and no root-specific Mufradat entry was supplied.
The entry for خَامٌ is explicitly described as an Arabicized Persian word in the lexical evidence; it is retained as a directly attached Classical entry but is not treated as a Quranic meaning.
The paper sub-sense under خَامٌ is textually uncertain, and the plant identification under خِيمٌ is reported tentatively.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The exact condition intended by the خَامٌ paper sub-sense is unresolved: the supplied text gives “polished” while suggesting that “not polished” may be the intended reading.