sukhma

blackness, hatred

سُخْمَة

Word

Noun · pattern فُعْلَة

Root

س خ م

From the same root

All words from س خ م →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 10 entries
  • سَخَّمَ وَجْهَهُ Form II He blackened his face
    , [inf. n. تَسْخِيمٌ,] He blackened his face (S, Mgh, Msb, K) with سُخَام, i. e. crock of the cooking-pot, (Msb,) or it is from السُّخَامُ; (Mgh;) like سحّمهُ, (Z, TA,) which is from الأَسْحَمُ. (Mgh.) 'Omar said of him who bears false witness, يُسَخَّمُ وَجْهُهُ [His face shall be blackened]. (TA.) And one says, سَخَّمَ ٱللّٰهُ وَجْهَهُ, i. e. May God blacken his face: (S:) [or (assumed tropical:) may God disgrace him:] or (tropical:) may God hate him, or hate him in the utmost degree; and be angry with him. (Msb.) ― -b2- سخّم المَآءَ, He heated the water, (IAar, K, TA,) and made it to boil. (IAar, TA.) ― -b3- And سخّم بِصَدْرِهِ, inf. n. as above, (assumed tropical:) He angered him. (K.) -A2- سخّم اللَّحْمُ, (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) The flesh-meat became stinking; (K, TA;) became altered [for the worse]. (TA.)
  • تسخّم عَلَيْهِ Form V He became affected with rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite, against him
    (assumed tropical:) He became affected with rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite, against him: (K:) or he became angered against him. (TA.)
  • سَخَمٌ Open entry
    : see what next follows.
  • سُخْمَةٌ Blackness
    , (S, TA, [so in both of my copies of the former, erroneously written by Golius and Freytag, in the first of the following senses, سَخَمَةٌ,]) with damm, (TA,) Blackness; (S, TA;) as also ↓ سَخَمٌ, (K, TA,) and [سُحْمَةٌ and] سَحَمٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- And (assumed tropical:) Anger. (TA.) See also سَخِيمَةٌ.
  • سُخَامٌ Crock, or black matter
    Crock, or black matter, [that collects upon the outside] of a cooking-pot. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.) ― -b2- And Charcoal: (K:) heard in this sense from a man of Himyer. (As, TA.) ― -b3- [Hence,] Black hair. (TA.) And لَيْلٌ سُخَامٌ and ↓ سُخَامِىٌّ Black night. (Ham p. 38.) -A2- Also Soft feathers beneath the upper feathers of a bird: (K, * TA:) n. un. with ة. (TA.) ― -b2- And Soft to the feel, (K, TA,) and goodly; (TA;) applied to a garment, or piece of cloth; such as [the kind of cloth called] خَزّ; and cotton; and the like: (K, TA:) you say ثَوْبٌ سُخَامُ المَسِّ a garment soft to the feel; such as خَزّ: and رِيشٌ سُخَامٌ feathers soft to the feel: and قُطْنٌ سُخَامٌ [cotton soft to the feel]: it is not from the signification of “ blackness. ” (S.) And hence, (S,) خَمْرٌ سُخَامٌ Wine that descends smoothly and easily [down the throat]; as also ↓ سُخَامِيَّةٌ (S, K) and ↓ سُخَامِىٌّ, (K,) or, accord. to ' Alee Ibn- Hamzeh, only the former of these two: (TA:) and [in like manner] طَعَامٌ سُخَامٌ food that is soft, or smooth, and easy in descent. (IAar.)
  • سَخِيمٌ Neither hot nor cold
    , applied to water, Neither hot nor cold; as also سَخِينٌ. (AA, L in art. سخن.)
  • سَخِيمَةٌ Rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite
    (S, K) and ↓ سُخْمَةٌ (K) Rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite; (S, K;) and anger in the soul: (S, TA:) pl. of the former سَخَايأِمُ. (TA.) [See two exs. in the first paragraph of art. سل.] ― -b2- And the former, by a metonymy, is used as meaning (tropical:) Excrement, or dung: so in the trad., مَنْ سَكَّ سَخِيمَتَهُ فِى طَرِيقِ المُسْلِمِينَ لَعَنَهُ ٱللّٰهُ (tropical:) [Whoso voids his excrement in the road, or path, of the Muslims, him God curses]. (TA.)
  • سُخَامِىٌّ Open entry
    , and سُخَامِيَّةٌ: see سُخَامٌ, in three places.
  • أَسْخَمُ Black
    Black; (S, K;) like أَسْحَمُ. (TA.) ― -b2- [The fem.] سَخْمَآءُ is said to be applied to wine (خَمْر) as meaning Inclining to blackness: but what has been said above [app. as to the word and the meaning] is more approved. (TA.) ― -b3- Also, applied to a [stony tract such as is termed] حَرَّة, Of which what is smooth, or soft, or plain, thereof, is intermixed with what is rugged. (K.)
  • مُسَخَّمٌ in whom is سَخِيمَة
    One in whom is سَخِيمَة, i. e. rancour, malevolence, malice, or spite. (K.)

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