qaḍm

gnawing, nibbling

قَضْم

Word

Noun · pattern فَعْل

Root

ق ض م

In the library

وقال محمد بن واسع، والله لسف التراب ولقضم العظم خير من الدنو من أبواب السلاطين.

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 4 entries
  • قَضِمَ Form I He crunched, nibbled or gnawed?
    He crunched, nibbled or gnawed? See خَضِمَ: and see also Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 245.
  • قَضَامٌ Open entry
    : see خُضَامَةٌ.
  • مَقْضَمٌ Open entry
    : see خُضَامَةٌ.
  • قَضِيمٌ A skin
    as meaning A skin &c. has for pl. أَقْضِمَةٌ [a pl. of pauc.] and قُضُمٌ, and قُضْمٌ, accord. to Sb, is a quasi-pl. n., (TA,) and قَضَمٌ is a pl. [or quasi-pl. n.] thereof as meaning a white skin upon which one writes. (S, K.) See an ex. of قُضُمٌ voce عَسِيبٌ.

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