Mashrabaمشربة

دومStillness and constancy — per Ibn Fāris, a single, regular sense. (root dwm)

الدال والواو والميم أصل واحد يدل على السكون واللزوم

Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha · English rendering

دوم
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The words of د و م that our sources attest: the root's letters in green, the added letters in gold.

36 words7 verbs6 verbal nouns4 participles3 places and instruments2 intensives and elatives12 other nouns2 plurals

  • دَامُthe journey continued, or continued long, is not of established authority
  • دَوام(office) hours
  • دَائِمcontinuing, lasting, enduring, or remaining
  • مُدَامcontinual, or lasting, rain
  • دَائِمُون—
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Verbs7دَامُ · أَدامَ · دَوَّمَتِ

The root as an action: the bare Form I, and the Forms made by adding letters before, inside or after the root.grammar →

Verbal nouns6دَوام · تَدْوِيم · تَدْيِيم

The action itself, named as a noun (maṣdar).grammar →

  • دَوام(office) hoursautoForm I · Lane: inf. n.library ×16Lane
  • تَدْوِيمForm II · Lane: inf. n.LaneIbn Fāris
  • تَدْيِيمForm I · Lane: inf. n.Lane
  • دَوْمForm I · Lane: inf. n.Lane
Participles4دَائِم · مُدَام · مُدِيم

The one who does it, and the one it is done to.grammar →

  • دَائِمcontinuing, lasting, enduring, or remainingLaneactive, Form IQurʾān ×2LaneIbn Fāris
  • مُدَامcontinual, or lasting, rainLanepassive, Form IVlibrary ×2Lane
  • مُدِيمhaving blood flowing from his noseLaneactive, Form IVLane
  • مُسْتَدِيمactive, Form XLane
Place, time and instrument3مَدِيمَة · مِدْوَام · مِدْوَم

Where or when it happens, and what it is done with: the m- nouns.grammar →

  • مَدِيمَةnoun of place (with -a)Lane
  • مِدْوَامnoun of instrumentLane
  • مِدْوَمstick, or piece of wood, or some other thing, with which one stills the …Lanenoun of instrumentLane
Intensives, qualities and the elative2أَدْوَم · دَيُّوم

The quality carried far, held as a trait, or compared.grammar →

  • أَدْوَمelative or colour adjective (afʿal)Lane
  • دَيُّومintensive (faʿūl)Lane
Other nouns12دِيمَة · دَاوِمَة · دَوَمَاء

Nouns on other patterns; their meaning is learned word by word.grammar →

  • دِيمَةlasting, or continuous, and still rainLanenounLaneIbn Fāris
  • دَاوِمَةnounLane
  • دَوَمَاءnounLane
  • دَوْمَةnounLane
Plurals2دَائِمُون · دِيَم

Broken plurals rebuild the word on a new pattern; sound plurals add an ending.grammar →

  • دَائِمُونsound plural of دَائِمQurʾān ×1
  • دِيَمbroken plural of دِيمَةLane
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مَفْعَلَةد و ممَدْوَمَة
  • Attested: مَدِيمَة, noun of place (with -a) (Lane)

Place noun with -a. The place noun with the feminine -a. Sometimes it is only a variant of mafʿal; often it names the place where a thing is found in abundance (maʾsada, 'a place full of lions'). So maktab is the place of writing, and maktaba, where writings are gathered: a library, a bookshop. Our summary

But: maktaba is not in our classical dictionaries for k-t-b: Lane and al-Jawharī give maktab ('a school'), none gives maktaba. Its sense of 'library, bookshop' fits the pattern of abundance, but that is our reading of the pattern, not a classical entry. Many mafʿala words are single items of usage (maqbara 'cemetery'), which the grammarians call heard, not formed by rule.

The grammarians on this pattern (4)
  • ما يكون مفعلة لازمة لها الهاء والفتحة … وذلك إذا أردت أن تكثر الشيء بالمكان، وذلك قولك: أرض مسبعة، ومأسدة

    Chapter on what is mafʿala, with the -a and the a-vowel always: that is when you mean that a thing abounds in a place, as you say 'a land of many beasts of prey (masbaʿa), of many lions (maʾsada)'

    Sībawayh (d. c. 180/796), al-Kitāb, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām Hārūn, 3rd ed. (Cairo: al-Khānjī, 1988), 4:94 · OpenITI line 21027–21028 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • و نحو المظنة و المقبرة فتحا و ضما ليس بقياس

    and words like maẓinna and maqbara (with a or u) are not by rule

    Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249), al-Shāfiya fī ʿilm al-taṣrīf, ed. Ḥasan Aḥmad al-ʿUthmān (Mecca: al-Maktaba al-Makkiyya, 1995), 1:30 · OpenITI line 223 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • “designate the place where the object signified by the noun from which they are formed, is found in large numbers or quantities” Wright, Grammar I, §247, p. 148 ↗ · on nouns of abundance, maf'ala · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
  • “Nouns of time and place not unfrequently take the feminine form” Wright, Grammar I, §225, p. 128 ↗ · on maf'ala as a variant of maf'al · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain

This root has a weak or doubled letter, so real words change shape (qāla → qāʾil, not qāwil); the machine pours the letters in as they are, and matches attested words by their regular pattern.

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Attested means found in our data: the Quranic Arabic Corpus (lemmas, verb Forms, participles, verbal nouns, plurals), the library's words (automatic analysis), Lane's Lexicon (his headwords, the Forms he numbers, the verbal nouns and plurals he names) and Ibn Fāris's entry. Nothing is generated for this list. Meanings are Lane's first gloss in his entry, or else the analyser's gloss (“auto”). Vowelling follows the corpus, then Lane, then the analyser; verbs are given in the regular perfect. Lane's Lexicon thins out after qāf, and a few of his entries cover several roots at once: those roots show no Lane. The patterns, written with ف ع ل, are computed by us.

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  • al-Jawharī · 393Dāma al-shay' yadūmu wa-yudāmu (دام الشيء يدوم ويدام) — dawman, dawāman, and daymūmatan — 'the thing persisted/endured';

    al-Jawharī (d. c. 393/1003), al-Ṣiḥāḥ. Admits only usage he judged sound.

    Dāma al-shay' yadūmu wa-yudāmu (دام الشيء يدوم ويدام) — dawman, dawāman, and daymūmatan — 'the thing persisted/endured'; and adāmahu ghayruhu (أدامه غيره) 'another made it endure.' And dawwamati al-shamsu fī kabidi al-samā' (دومت الشمس في كبد السماء) 'the sun paused at the zenith of the sky.' And [the poet] said: 'And the sun, bewildered, has a hovering (tadwīm) in the sky' — that is, as if it does not move on. Al-Aṣma'ī said: dawwamat al-khamru shāribahā (دومت الخمر شاربها), 'the wine made its drinker dawwama,' when he became drunk and so grew dizzy. One says: akhadhahu duwām (أخذه دُوَام), with ḍamma, meaning dizziness (duwār) — that is, dizziness of the head. Dāma al-shay' (دام الشيء): it became still. And in the ḥadīth: 'He forbade urinating in still water (al-mā' al-dā'im)' — that is, the still [water]. Dawwamtu al-qidr and adamtuhā (دومت القدر وأدمتها): when one stills its boiling with a little water. Dawwamtu al-shay' (دومت الشيء): I moistened it. Ibn Aḥmar said: 'And the saliva of the hopeful, greedy man may indeed yadūmu' — that is, moistens it. Tadwīm al-za'farān (تدويم الزعفران) is dawfuhu (mixing/dissolving it). Al-Farrā' said: al-tadwīm is [a camel's] working its tongue so that its saliva does not dry up. Dhū al-Rumma said, describing a camel roaring in its throat-pouch: 'Speckled, tossing up frothy slaver, his rumble (rizzuhu) circled (dawwama) within it and quivered.' Tadwīm al-ṭayr (تدويم الطير) is its soaring — that is, its circling in flight so as to rise into the sky. Dhū al-Rumma applied tadwīm to the ground, in his saying describing a bull: 'Until, when it circled (dawwamat) upon the ground, turning back, he cried the takbīr, though had he wished he could have saved himself by flight.' Al-Aṣma'ī rejected this and said: rather one says dawā (دوى) on the ground, and dawwama (دوم) in the sky. Some considered tadwīm on the ground correct and said: from it is derived al-duwwāma (الدُّوَّامة), with ḍamma and doubling, which is a spinning-top that a boy throws with a string so that it dūmu (spins) on the ground — that is, revolves. Others say: rather al-duwwāma is named from their saying dawwamtu al-qidr, 'I stilled the pot's boiling with water,' because from the speed of its spinning it seems as if it had become still and quiet. Al-tadwām (التدوام) is like al-tadwīm. Al-Aḥmar cited, describing horses: 'They champ at their bits, their forelocks inclined toward their banners, like birds, ever-hovering (mutadāwimāt), being watched.' His saying 'tabqā' means: you look at them and watch them; and his saying 'mutadāwimāt' means mudawwimāt — circling, wheeling over something. Some said: tadwīm al-kalb (تدويم الكلب) is a dog's persisting at flight. Al-mudīm (المديم) is one whose nose bleeds. Al-dawm (الدوم) is the muql-tree [doum-palm]. Al-ẓill al-dawm (الظل الدوم) is lasting/permanent shade. Dūmat al-Jandal (دومة الجندل) is the name of a fortress; the philologists pronounce it with ḍamma on the dāl, while the ḥadīth-scholars pronounce it with fatḥa. And the saying of Labīd, describing the daughters of Time [i.e. misfortunes]: 'They swept, at al-Dawmā, upon the top of his fortress, and brought down by ropes the lord of al-Mushaqqar' — he means Ukaydir, lord of Dūmat al-Jandal. Al-mudāma and al-mudām (المدامة والمدام) are wine... [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    دام الشئ يدوم ويدام، دوما ودواما وديمومة، وأدامه غيره. ودومت الشمس في كبد السماء. وقال (1) : والشمس حيرى لها في الجو تدويم (2) * أي كأنها لا تمضي. قال الأصمعي: دومت الخمر شاربها، إذا سكر فدار. ويقال: أخذه دوام بالضم، أي دوار، وهو دوار الرأس. ودام الشئ: سكن. وفي الحديث " نهى أن يبال في الماء الدائم "، وهو الساكن. ودومت القدر وأدمتها، إذا سكنت غليانها بشئ من الماء. ودومت الشئ: بللته. قال ابن أحمر: وقد يدوم ريق الطامع الامل (1) * أي يبله. وتدويم الزعفران: دوفه. قال الفراء. والتدويم. أن يلوك لسانه لئلا ييبس ريقه. قال ذو الرمة يصف بعيرا يهدر في شقشقته: رقشاء تنتاخ اللغام المزبدا (2) دوم فيها رزه وأرعدا وتدويم الطير: تحليقه، وهو دورانه في طيرانه ليرتفع إلى السماء. وقد جعل ذو الرمة التدويم في الأرض بقوله يصف ثورا: حتى إذا دومت في الأرض راجعه كبر ولو شاء نجى نفسه الهرب وأنكر الأصمعي ذلك وقال: إنما يقال دوى في الأرض، ودوم في السماء. وكان بعضهم يصوب التدويم في الارض ويقول: منه اشتقت الدوامة، بالضم والتشديد، وهى فلكة يرميها الصبى بخيط فتدوم على الارض، أي تدور. وغيره يقول: إنما سميت الدوامة من قولهم: دومت القدر، إذا سكنت غليانها بالماء، لأنها من سرعة دورانها كأنها قد سكنت وهدأت. والتدوام مثل التدويم. وأنشد الاحمر في نعت الخيل: فهن يعلكن حدائداتها جنح النواصي نحو ألوياتها كالطير تبقى متداوماتها قوله " تبقى " أي تنظر إليها أنت وترقبها. وقوله " متدوامات " أي مدومات دائرات عائفات على شئ. وقال بعضهم: تدويم الكلب: إمعانه في الهرب. والمديم: الراعف والدوم: شجر المقل. والظل الدوم: الدائم. ودومة الجندل: اسم حصن. وأصحاب اللغة يقولونه بضم الدال، وأصحاب الحديث يفتحونها. وقول لبيد يصف بنات الدهر: وأعصفن بالدومى من رأس حصنه وأنزلن بالاسباب رب المشقر يعنى أكيدر صاحب دومة الجندل. والمدامة والمدام: الخمر. واستدمت الأمر، إذا تأنيت به. وقال قيس بن زهير: فلا تعجل أمرك واستدمه فما صلى عصاك كمستديم وقال آخر (1) : وإنى على ليلى لزار وإنني على ذاك فيما بيننا مستديمها أي منتظر أن تعتبني بخير. والمداومة على الأمر: المواظبة عليه وأما قولهم: ما دام، فمعناه الدوام، لان ما اسم موصول بداء، ولا تستعمل إلا ظرفا كما تستعمل المصادر ظروفا، تقول: لا أجلس مادمت قائما، أي دوام قيامك، كما تقول: ورد في مقدم الحاج. والدودم (2) ، على وزن الهدبد: شبه الد يخرج من السمرة، هو الحذال. يقال: حاضت: السمرة، إذا خرج منها ذلك.

  • Ibn Fāris · 395Dāl, wāw, and mīm form a single root indicating stillness (al-sukūn) and constancy/persistence (al-luzūm).

    Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004), Maqāyīs al-Lugha. Seeks each root's original sense (aṣl).

    Dāl, wāw, and mīm form a single root indicating stillness (al-sukūn) and constancy/persistence (al-luzūm). One says dāma al-shay' yadūmu (دام الشيء يدوم) 'the thing became still/persisted,' when it grows still, and al-mā' al-dā'im (الماء الدائم) is still water. The Messenger of God (peace and blessings upon him) forbade urinating in still water and then performing ablution from it; the proof of the correctness of this interpretation is that it has also been transmitted with another wording, namely that he forbade urinating in standing water (al-mā' al-qā'im, الماء القائم). One also says adamtu al-qidr idāmatan (أدمت القدر إدامة) 'I stilled the pot,' when one calms its boiling with water. Al-Ja'dī (الجعدي) said: 'Their pot boils over against us, so we still it (nudīmuhā), and we quench it away from us when its heat has boiled.' Among what is carried on this meaning, and analogous to it, is tadwīm al-ṭā'ir (تدويم الطائر) 'the bird's hovering' in the air, which is when it soars and has there, as it were, a pause. From this too is their saying dawwamati al-shamsu fī kabidi al-samā' (دومت الشمس في كبد السماء) 'the sun paused at the zenith of the sky,' which is when it reaches that spot; and those learned in such matters say that it has there something like a pause, then it inclines [toward setting]. Dhū al-Rumma said: 'And the sun, bewildered, has a hovering (tadwīm) in the sky' — that is, as if it does not move on. As for his saying describing dogs: 'Until, when it circled (dawwamat) upon the ground, turning back, he cried the takbīr, though had he wished he could have saved himself by flight' — it is said that he erred, and that he meant dawat (دوت), but said dawwamat (دومت); this has been discussed in its proper place. One also says dawwamtu al-za'farān (دومت الزعفران) 'I mixed the saffron,' i.e. I stirred it in, and this fits the analogy, because it settles/becomes still in whatever it is dissolved in. Istadamtu al-amr (استدمت الأمر) means 'I dealt gently with the matter'; so they say, the meaning being that if one is gentle with a matter, does not treat it roughly, and does not hurry it, it endures (dāma) for him. He said: 'So do not hasten in your affair, but take it patiently (istadimhu) — for nothing sets your staff right like one who proceeds patiently (mustadīm).' As for his saying: 'And the saliva of the hopeful, greedy man may indeed yadūmu (persist)' — they say yadūmu means 'moistens,' but this is nothing; rather yadūmu means 'endures/remains,' for it is the despairing man whose saliva dries up. Al-dīma (الديمة) is rain that continues for a day and a night or more. From this chapter is that 'Ā'isha was asked about the deeds of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings upon him), and she said, 'His deeds were like a steady rain (dīma)' — that is, constant; the meaning is that he persisted in it whether little or much, but never neglected it — she meant, in his worship, peace and blessings upon him. As for their saying dawwamathu al-khamru (دومته الخمر) 'the wine dawwama-ed him,' this is from the same [root], because it stupefies him until his movements become still. Al-da'mā' (الدأماء) is the sea, and it may well belong to this chapter, because it is a standing body of water that is not drained off and does not depart. He said: 'And the night is like the sea (al-dāmā'), enveloped, beneath it, in a hue like the hue of black cloth (sadūs).'

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الدال والواو والميم أصل واحد يدل على السكون واللزوم يقال دام الشيء يدوم إذا سكن والماء الدائم الساكن ونهى رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أن يبال في الماء الدائم ثم يتوضأ منه والدليل على صحة هذا التأويل أنه روي بلفظة أخرى وهو أنه نهى أن يبال في الماء القائم ويقال أدمت القدر إدامة إذا سكنت غليانها بالماء قال الجعدي : — تفور علينا قدرهم فنديمها … ونفثؤها عنا إذا حميها غلا … ومن المحمول على هذا وقياسه قياسه تدويم الطائر في الهواء وذلك إذا حلق وكانت له عندها كالوقفة ومن ذلك قولهم دومت الشمس في كبد السماء وذلك إذا بلغت ذلك الموضع ويقول أهل العلم بها إن لها ثم كالوقفة ثم تدلك قال ذو الرمة : — والشمس حيرى لها في الجو تدويم … أي كأنها لا تمضي وأما قوله يصف الكلاب : — حتى إذا دومت في الأرض راجعة … كبر ولو شاء نجى نفسه الهرب … فيقال إنه أخطأ وإنما أراد دوت فقال دومت وقد ذكر هذا في بابه ويقال دومت الزعفران دفته وهو القياس لأنه يسكن فيما يداف فيه واستدمت الأمر إذا رفقت به وكذا يقولون والمعنى أنه إذا رفق به ولم يعنف ولم يعجل دام له قال : — فلا تعجل بأمرك واستدمه … فما صلى عصاك كمستديم … وأما قوله : — وقد يدوم ريق الطامع الأمل … فيقولون يدوم يبل وليس هذا بشيء إنما يدوم يبقي وذلك أن اليائس يجف ريقه والديمة مطر يدوم يوما وليلة أو أكثر ومن الباب أن عائشة سئلت عن عمل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم فقالت ( كان عمله ديمة ) أي دائما والمعنى أنه كان يدوم عليه سواء قلل أو كثر ولكنه كان لا يخل تعني بذلك في عبادته صلى الله عليه وسلم فأما قولهم دومته الخمر فهو من ذاك لأنها تخثره حتى تسكن حركاته والدأماء البحر ولعله أن يكون من الباب لأنه ماء مقيم لا ينزح ولا يبرح قال : — والليل كالداماء مستشعر … من دونه لونا كلون السدوس …

  • al-Rāghib · 502The basic meaning of dawām (الدوام) is stillness (al-sukūn).

    al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī (d. c. 502/1108), al-Mufradāt. Quranic vocabulary, from core sense to Quranic usage.

    The basic meaning of dawām (الدوام) is stillness (al-sukūn). One says dāma al-mā' (دام الماء), meaning: it became still; and 'it was forbidden that a person urinate in still water (al-mā' al-dā'im).' Adamtu al-qidr and dawwamtuhā (أدمت القدر ودومتها): I stilled its boiling with water. From this: dāma al-shay' (دام الشيء) means: when time extends over a thing [i.e. it persists through time]. He, exalted, said: 'And I was a witness over them so long as I remained among them (mā dumtu fīhim)' [al-Mā'ida 5:117]; 'except so long as you keep standing over him (mā dumta 'alayhi qā'iman)' [Āl 'Imrān 3:75]; 'we will never enter it while they remain in it (mā dāmū fīhā)' [al-Mā'ida 5:24]. One says: dumtu tudāmu (دمت تدام); and it is also said: dumtu tadūmu (دمت تدوم), like mittu tamūtu (مت تموت). And dawwamati al-shamsu fī kabidi al-samā' (دومت الشمس في كبد السماء) [the sun paused at the zenith of the sky]. The poet said: [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    أصل الدوام السكون، يقال: دام الماء، أي: سكن، «ونهي أن يبول الإنسان في الماء الدائم» «4» . وأدمت القدر ودومتها: سكنت غليانها بالماء، ومنه: دام الشيء: إذا امتد عليه الزمان، قال تعالى: وكنت عليهم شهيدا ما دمت فيهم [المائدة/ 117] ، إلا ما دمت عليه قائما [آل عمران/ 75] ، لن ندخلها أبدا ما داموا فيها [المائدة/ 24] ، ويقال: دمت تدام، وقيل: دمت تدوم، نحو: مت تموت «5» ، ودومت الشمس في كبد السماء، قال الشاعر:

  • Lisān · 711Dāma al-shay' yadūmu wa-yudāmu (دام الشيء يدوم ويدام).

    Ibn Manẓūr (d. 711/1311), Lisān al-ʿArab. The great compendium of the earlier dictionaries (entry shortened).

    Dāma al-shay' yadūmu wa-yudāmu (دام الشيء يدوم ويدام). He said: 'O Mayy, there is no wonder and no blame in love, for love will never yudāma (endure/be sustained).' Kurā' said: dāma yadūmu (دام يدوم) follows the pattern fa'ala yaf'ulu, though it is not a strong [analogy]; [its verbal nouns are] dawman, dawāman, and daymūmatan. Abū al-Ḥasan said: There is some difficulty in this word. The philologists held, regarding their saying dumtu tadūmu (دمت تدوم), that it is anomalous, like mittu tamūtu (مت تموت), faḍala yafḍulu (فضل يفضل), and ḥaḍara yaḥḍuru (حضر يحضر). Abū Bakr held that it is a blend of two paradigms, saying: dumtu tadūmu is like qultu taqūlu (قلت تقول), while dimtu tadāmu (دمت تدام) is like khiftu takhāfu (خفت تخاف). Then the two dialectal forms became mixed, so that some people supposed that tadūmu goes with dimtu, and tadāmu with dumtu, inclining toward the irregular form and preferring it. But the correct view is as stated before: that tadāmu goes with dimtu, and tadūmu with dumtu. What they held in treating dumtu tadūmu as anomalous is lighter than what they held in permitting dimtu tadāmu, since the former has parallels, while nothing else of the latter type is known except kidtu takādu (كدت تكاد). The blending of two dialects is a broad phenomenon, like qanaṭa yaqnaṭu and rakana yarkunu, which the ignorant among philologists then attribute to irregularity. Adāmahu and istadāmahu (أدامه واستدامه): he was patient/deliberate with it; and it is said: he sought its continuance (dawām); and adūmahu (أدومه) is likewise. Istadamtu al-amr (استدمت الأمر): when you are patient/deliberate with it. Al-Jawharī cited, from al-Majnūn — whose name was Qays ibn Mu'ādh: 'And indeed I am, toward Laylā, aggrieved, yet I, for all that, between us, remain mustadīm (patiently awaiting) her' — that is, awaiting that she make amends to me with kindness. Ibn Barrī said: Ibn Khālawayh cited, for mustadīm in the sense of 'awaiting': 'You see the poets — one struck down, afflicted by his blow, and another mustadīm (patiently waiting).' He also cited: 'When a thunderbolt fell upon them, they saw another burning [approaching], and they istadāmū (braced themselves patiently).' Al-Layth [said]: istidāmat al-amr (استدامة الأمر) is deliberateness/patience (al-anāh). He cited, from Qays ibn Zuhayr: 'So do not hasten in your affair, but take it patiently (istadimhu) — for nothing sets your staff right like one who proceeds patiently (mustadīm).' Taṣliyat al-'aṣā (تصلية العصا) is turning the staff over the fire so that it becomes straight; and its istidāma is being patient/deliberate with it — that is, nothing perfects its handling like deliberateness. Shamir said: al-mustadīm (المستديم) is one who exerts himself thoroughly in a matter. Istadim mā 'inda fulān (استدم ما عند فلان) means: await it and watch for it from him. He said: the meaning of the verse is that nothing attends to your need like one who concerns himself with it and desires to fulfill it. Adāmahu ghayruhu (أدامه غيره): another made it endure; and al-mudāwama 'alā al-amr (المداومة على الأمر) is persisting steadily in a matter. Al-dayyūm (الديوم) is 'the ever-enduring' from this root, just as they said qayyūm (قيوم). Al-dīma (الديمة) is rain accompanied by stillness [i.e. without storm]; and it is said: it lasts five or six days; and it is said: a day and a night or more. Khālid ibn Janba said: al-dīma is rain in which there is neither thunder nor lightning, lasting through its day; its plural is diyam (ديم), the wāw being changed in the plural because of its change in the singular. Mā zālat al-samā' dawman dawman wa-diyaman diyaman (ما زالت السماء دوما دوما وديما ديما) — the yā' [in the second form] being by way of alternation — meaning: the sky continued raining steadily. Some related: dāmat al-samā' tadīmu dayman (دامت السماء تديم ديما), and dawwamat and duyyimat; and Ibn Jinnī said: it is [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    دام الشيء يدوم ويدام؛ قال: يا مي لا غرو ولا ملاما ... في الحب، إن الحب لن يداما قال كراع: دام يدوم فعل يفعل، وليس بقوي، دوما ودواما وديمومة؛ قال أبو الحسن: في هذه الكلمة نظر، ذهب أهل اللغة في قولهم دمت تدوم إلى أنها نادرة كمت تموت، وفضل يفضل، وحضر يحضر، وذهب أبو بكر إلى أنها متركبة فقال: دمت تدوم كقلت تقول، ودمت تدام كخفت تخاف، ثم تركبت اللغتان فظن قوم أن تدوم على دمت، وتدام على دمت، ذهابا إلى الشذوذ وإيثارا له، والوجه ما تقدم من أن تدام على دمت، وتدوم على دمت، وما ذهبوا إليه من تشذيذ دمت تدوم أخف مما ذهبوا إليه من تسوغ دمت تدام، إذ الأولى ذات نظائر، ولم يعرف من هذه الأخيرة إلا كدت تكاد، وتركيب اللغتين باب واسع كقنط يقنط وركن يركن، فيحمله جهال أهل اللغة على الشذوذ. وأدامه واستدامه: تأنى فيه، وقيل: طلب دوامه، وأدومه كذلك. واستدمت الأمر إذا تأنيت فيه؛ وأنشد الجوهري للمجنون واسمه قيس بن معاذ: وإني على ليلى لزار، وإنني، ... على ذاك فيما بيننا، مستديمها أي منتظر أن تعتبني بخير؛ قال ابن بري: وأنشد ابن خالويه في مستديم بمعنى منتظر: ترى الشعراء من صعق مصاب ... بصكته، وآخر مستديم وأنشد أيضا: إذا أوقعت صاعقة عليهم، ... رأوا أخرى تحرق فاستداموا الليث: استدامة الأمر الأناة؛ وأنشد لقيس ابن زهير: فلا تعجل بأمرك واستدمه، ... فما صلى عصاك كمستديم وتصلية العصا: إدارتها على النار لتستقيم، واستدامتها: التأني فيها، أي ما أحكم أمرها كالتأني. وقال شمر: المستديم المبالغ في الأمر. واستدم ما عند فلان أي انتظره وارقبه؛ قال: ومعنى البيت ما قام بحاجتك مثل من يعنى بها ويحب قضاءها. وأدامه غيره، والمداومة على الأمر: المواظبة عليه. والديوم: الدائم منه كما قالوا قيوم. والديمة: مطر يكون مع سكون، وقيل: يكون خمسة أيام أو ستة وقيل: يوما وليلة أو أكثر، وقال خالد بن جنبة: الديمة من المطر الذي لا رعد فيه ولا برق تدوم يومها، والجمع ديم، غيرت الواو في الجمع لتغيرها في الواحد. وما زالت السماء دوما دوما وديما ديما، الياء على المعاقبة، أي دائمة المطر؛ وحكى بعضهم: دامت السماء تديم ديما ودومت وديمت؛ وقال ابن جني: هو من الواو لاجتماع العرب طرا على الدوام، وهو أدوم من كذا، وقال أيضا: من التدريج في اللغة قولهم ديمة وديم، واستمرار القلب في العين إلى الكسرة قبلها «1»، ثم تجاوزوا ذلك لما كثر وشاع إلى أن قالوا دومت السماء وديمت، فأما دومت فعلى القياس، وأما ديمت فلاستمرار القلب في ديمة وديم؛ أنشد أبو زيد: هو الجواد ابن الجواد ابن سبل، ... إن ديموا جاد، وإن جادوا وبل ويروى: دوموا. شمر: يقال ديمة وديم؛ قال الأغلب: فوارس وحرشف كالديم، ... لا تتأنى حذر الكلوم روي عن أبي العميثل أنه قال: ديمة وجمعها ديوم بمعنى الديمة. وأرض مديمة ومديمة: أصابتها الديم، وأصلها الواو؛ قال ابن سيده: وأرى الياء معاقبة؛ قال ابن مقبل: عقيلة رمل دافعت في حقوفه ... رخاخ الثرى، والأقحوان المديما وسنذكر ذلك في ديم. وفي حديث عائشة، رضي الله عنها، أنها سئلت: هل كان رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم، يفضل بعض الأيام على بعض؟ وفي رواية: أنها ذكرت عمل رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم، فقالت: كان عمله ديمة ؛ شبهته بالديمة من المطر في الدوام والاقتصاد. وروي عن حذيقة أنه ذكر الفتن فقال: إنها لآتيتكم ديما ، يعني أنها تملأ الأرض مع دوام؛ وأنشد: ديمة هطلاء فيها وطف، ... طبق الأرض، تحرى وتدر والمدام: المطر الدائم؛ عن ابن جني. والمدام والمدامة: الخمر، سميت مدامة لأنه ليس شيء تستطاع إدامة شربه إلا هي، وقيل: لإدامتها في الدن زمانا حتى سكنت بعد ما فارت، وقيل: سميت مدامة إذا كانت لا تنزف من كثرتها، فهي مدامة ومدام، وقيل: سميت مدامة لعتقها. وكل شيء سكن فقد دام؛ ومنه قيل للماء الذي يسكن فلا يجري: دائم. ونهى النبي، صلى الله عليه وسلم، أن يبال في الماء الدائم ثم يتوضأ منه ، وهو الماء الراكد الساكن، من دام يدوم إذا طال زمانه. ودام الشيء: سكن. وكل شيء سكنته فقد أدمته. وظل دوم وماء دوم: دائم، وصفوهما بالمصدر. والدأماء: البحر لدوام مائه، وقد قيل: أصله دوماء، فإعلاله على هذا شاذ. ودام البحر يدوم: سكن؛ قال أبو ذؤيب: فجاء بها ما شئت من لطمية، ... تدوم البحار فوقها وتموج ورواه بعضهم: يدوم الفرات، قال: وهذا غلط لأن الدر لا يكون في الماء العذب. والديموم والديمومة: الفلاة يدوم السير فيها لبعدها؛ قال ابن سيده: وقد ذكرت قول أبي علي أنها من الدوام الذي هو السخ «1». والديمومة: الأرض المستوية التي لا أعلام بها ولا طريق ولا ماء ولا أنيس وإن كانت مكلئة، وهن الدياميم. يقال: علونا ديمومة بعيدة الغور، وعلونا أرضا ديمومة منكرة. وقال أبو عمرو: الدياميم الصحاري الملس المتباعدة الأطراف. ودومت الكلاب: أمعنت في السير؛ قال ذو الرمة: حتى إذا دومت في الأرض راجعه ... كبر …

  • Lane · 1876English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    E. W. Lane (d. 1876), An Arabic-English Lexicon. English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    دَامَ

    1. دَامَ, aor. يَدُومُ and يَدَامُ; (S, M, Msb, K;) the see. pers. of the pret. when the aor. is يَدُومُ being دُمْتَ; and when the aor. is يَدَام, دِمْتَ; (M;) and accord. to Kr, (M,) you say also دِمْتَ, aor. تَدُومُ, which is extr., (M, K,) and not of valid authority, held by the lexicologists [in general] to be anomalous like مِتَّ having for its aor. تَمُوتُ, and فَضِلَ of which the aor. is يَفْضُلُ, and حَضِرَ of which the aor. is يَحْضُرُ, and said by Aboo-Bekr to be a compound of the pret. of which the aor. is تَدَامُ with the aor. of which the pret. is دُمْتَ; (M;) inf. n. دَوْمٌ and دَوَامٌ [which is the most common form] and دَيْمُومَةٌ [originally دَيْوَمُومَةٌ, like قَيْدُودَةٌ originally قَيْوَدُودَةٌ, &c.]; (S, M, Msb, K;) i. q. ثَبَتَ [as meaning It (a thing, S, M, Msb) continued, lasted, endured, or remained]: (Msb, TK:) and it became extended, or prolonged; syn. اِمْتَدَّ: (TK:) and [it continued, lasted, endured, or remained, long;] its time was, or became, long: (TA:) and i. q. بَقِىَ [as syn. with ثَبَتَ (explained above) and as meaning it continued, lasted, or existed, incessantly, always, endlessly, or for ever; it was, or became, permanent, perpetual, or everlasting]: (Msb in art. بقى:) and استدام signifies the same as دام [in all of these senses]: (TA:) [but Mtr says,] استدام السَّفَرُ [The journey continued, or continued long,] is not of established authority. (Mgh.) [Hence, دَامَ مُلْكُهُ May his dominion be of long continuance.] And دام عَلَى الأَمْرِ; (MA;) and عَلَيْهِ داوم, [and داومهُ, as is shown by a usage of the act. part. n. in art. دمن in the S, &c.,] (S, * MA,) inf. n. مُدَاوَمَةٌ; (S;) He kept continually, or constantly, to the thing, or affair. (S, MA.) مَا دَامَ means Continuance; because ما is a conjunct noun to دام; and it is not used otherwise than adverbially, like as inf. ns. are used adverbially: you say, لَا أَجْلِسُ مَا دُمْتَ قَائِمًا, i. e., دَوَامَ قِيَامِكَ [I will not sit during the continuance of thy standing]; (S, TA;) [or as long as thou standest; or while thou standest; for] ما denotes time; and قُمْ مَا دَامَ زَيْدٌ قَائِمًا means مُدَّةَ قِيَامِ زَيْدٍ [i. e. Stand thou during the period of Zeyd's standing]. (Ibn-Keysán, TA.) [And عَلَىالدَّوَامِ means Continually, or constantly; like دَائِمًا.] Said of rain, it means It fell, or descended, consecutively, continuously, or constantly. (Msb.) Some say, (M,) دَامَتِ السَّمَآءُ, aor. تَدِيمٌ, inf. n. دَيْمٌ, (M, K,) which, if correct, should be included in art. ديم, (M,) meaning The sky rained continually; as also دَوَّمَت and دَيَّمَت, (M, K,) in which last the و is changed into ى as it is in دِيمَةٌ, (M,) and ادامت: (K:) or rained such rain as is termed دِيمَة; (M in art. ديم;) and so دَيَّمَت, inf. n. تَدْيِيمٌ; (S in art. ديم;) and ادامت. (Z, TA.) [See also دَوْمٌ, below.] IAar cites the following verse, (M, TA,) by Jahm Ibn-Shibl, (TA in this art.,) or Ibn-Sebel, (TA in art. سبل, in which, also, the verse is cited,) in praise of a horse, as is said in “ the Book of Plants ” of Ed-Deenäwaree, and in “ the Book of Horses ” of Ibn-El-Kelbee, not, as J asserts it to be, in praise of a munificent man, (TA,) [He is the fleet, the son of the fleet, the son of Sebel (a famous mare): if they are unremitting in their running, (the masc. pl. being here used, though relating to horses, in like manner as it is used in the Kur xli. 20,) he is fleet; and if they are fleet, he is vehement in his running]: or, as some relate it, إِنْ دَوَّمُوا. (M, TA. [It should be observed that the three verbs in this verse, and the word سبل, also relate to rain.]) (tropical:) It (a thing, T) was, or became, still, or motionless; said of water (T, S, * Msb, K, * TA) left in a pool by a torrent, and of the boiling of a cooking-pot; (Msb;;) and said, in this sense, of the sea: (M:) and it stopped, or stood still. (T, TA.) (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, tired, or fatigued: (T, TA:) [app. because he who is so stops to rest.] (assumed tropical:) It (a thing) went round, revolved, or circled: (T, TA:) [app. because that which does so keeps near to one place.] دَوَمَانٌ [an inf. n. of دَامَ like as حَوَمَانٌ is of حَامَ,] signifies (tropical:) The circling of a bird (K, TA) around water. (TA. [But in my MS. copy of the K, and in the CK, in the place of الدَّوَمَانُ I find الدَّوَمَآءُ. See also 2.]) [Hence,] دِيمَ بِهِ (tropical:) He was taken, or affected, with a vertigo, or giddiness in the head; as also بِهِ أُدِيمَ, (M, TA,) and اُسْتُدِيمَ [app., in like manner, followed by بِهِ]. (Z, TA.) دَامَتِ الدَّلْوِ, (K,) inf. n. دَوْمٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) The bucket became full: (K:) in this meaning, regard is had to the stagnant water [in the bucket]. (TA.)

    دَوَّمَتِ السَّمَآءُ

    2. دَوَّمَتِ السَّمَآءُ, and دَيَّمَت: and دَيَّمُوا said of horses: see 1, in the latter half of the paragraph, in three places. دوّمت الكِلَابُ The dogs went far: (Akh, IAar, M, K:) or continued their course. (IAar, M.) Dhu-r-Rummeh says, (de scribing a wild bull, T, TA,) [Until, when they went far in the land, pride returned to him: but, had he pleased, flight had saved his blood: J, however, assigns to the verb in this instance another signification, as will be seen below]. (M, TA.) دوّم said of a bird, (T, M, K,) inf. n. تَدْوِيمٌ, (T, S,) (tropical:) It circled (Lth, T, S, M, K, TA) in the sky, (Lth, T, M, K,) as also تداوم, (KL,) [or تَدوّم, (see مُتَدَوِّمَاتٌ,)] to rise high towards the sky; (S;) as also استدام: (M, K:) or circled in the sky, (M,) or flew, (T, * K,) without moving its wings; (T, M, K;) like the kite and the aquiline vulture: (T, TA:) or put itself into a state of commotion in its flying. (TA. [See also 1, near the end of the paragraph.]) Dhu-r-Rummeh makes التَّدْوِيم to be on the earth, or ground, in the verse cited above in this paragraph; [as though the meaning were, (assumed tropical:) Until, when they went round &c.;] As disallows this, and asserts that one says only دَوَّى فِىالأَرْضِ, and دَوَّمَ فِى السَّمَآءِ; but some affirm that التَّدْوِيمُ فِىالأَرْضِ is correct; and say that hence is de rived الدُّوَّامَةُ, meaning “ the round thing [or top] which the boy throws, and makes to revolve, or spin, upon the ground, by means of a string; ” though others say that this is so called from the phrase دَوَّمْتُ القِدْرَ [explained below], because, by reason of the quickness of its revolving, or spinning, it seems as though it were at rest: and تَدْوَامٌ is like تَدْوِيمٌ: some, however, say that تَدْوِيمُ الكَلْبِ signifies the dog's going far in flight: (S:) AHeyth says that, accord. to As, التَّدْوِيمُ is only the act of a bird in the sky: (T, TA:) AAF says that, accord. to some, التَّدْوِيمُ is in the sky, and التَّدْوِيَةُ is on the earth, or ground; but accord. to others, the reverse is the case; and this, he says, is the truth in his opinion. (M, TA. [See also دَوَّىَ in art. دوى.]) You say also, دَوَّمَتِ, الشَّمْسُ, (M, K,) or دوّمت الشمس فى السَّمَاءِ, (T,) or فِىكَبِدِ السَّمَآءِ, (S,) i. e. دَارَتْ فِى السَّمَآءِ [or دارت فى كبد السماء, lit. (tropical:) The sun spun in the sky, or in the middle of the sky; meaning, was as though it were spinning]; (T, M, K;) or was as though it were motionless [&c.]: (T, S:) and hence is [said to be] derived the word دُوَّامَةٌ applied to the boy's revolving, or spinning, thing. (T.) Dhu-r-Rummeh says, (describing the [insect called] جُنْدَب, [generally said to be a species of locust,] TA in art. رمض) (T, * S, TA) i. e. Venturing upon the [vehement] heat of the pebbles, [meaning the vehemently-hot pebbles,] striking them with its foot, for so the جندب does, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) when the sun is [apparently] stationary in the summer midday, [as though perplexed in its course,] as though having a spinning [in the region between heaven and earth]: (T, TA:) or as though it were motionless. (S.) And one says, دَوَّمَتْ عَيْنُهُ (assumed tropical:) [His eye rolled; i. e.] the black of his eye revolved as though it were in the whirl of a spindle. (IAar, M, K.) [دوّم is also trans.] You say, دوّم الدُّوَّامَةَ, (M, K,) inf. n. تَدْوِيمٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He made the دوّامة [or top] to revolve, or spin [so as to seem to be at rest, as has been shown above]: (M, K:) or he played with the دوّامة. (TA.) And دوّمت الخَمْرُ شَارِبَهَا (tropical:) The wine intoxicated its drinker so as to make him turn round about. (As, S, TA.) And دَوَّمُوا العَمَائِمَ (assumed tropical:) They wound the turbans around their heads. (TA.) And دوّم المَرَقَةَ (assumed tropical:) He put much grease into the broth so that it swam round upon it. (M, K.) التَّدْوِيمُ [or app. تَدْوِيمُ اللِّسَانِ] also signifies (assumed tropical:) The mumbling the tongue, and rolling it about in the mouth, in order that the saliva may not dry up: so says Fr. (S, TA.) [Hence, app., as the context seems to indicate,] Dhu-r-Rummeh says, describing a camel braying in his شِقْشِقَة [or faucial bag], [as though meaning (assumed tropical:) He made his braying to roll, or rumble, in it, and threatened]. (Fr, S, TA.) And دوّم signifies (tropical:) He moistened a thing. (S, M, K.) Ibn-Ahmar says, (S, M;) i. e. (assumed tropical:) [And hope sometimes, or often,] moistens the saliva [of the eager]: (S:) he is praising En-Noamán Ibn-Besheer, and means that his hope moistens his saliva in his mouth by making his eulogy to continue. (IB.) (tropical:) He mixed, or moistened, or steeped, (دَافَ,) saffron, (Lth, T, S, M, K, TA,) and stirred it round in doing so: (Lth, T, TA:) he dissolved saffron in water, and stirred it round therein. (A, TA.) دوّم القِدْرَ, and ادامها, (S, M, K,) He stilled the boiling of the cooking-pot by means of some [cold] water: (S:) or he sprinkled cold water upon [the contents of] the cooking-pot to still its boiling: (M, K:) or the former, (K,) or both, (M,) he allayed the boiling of the cooking-pot by means of something, (M, K,) and stilled it: (M:) and the latter signifies he left the cooking-pot upon the أَثَافِى [or three stones that supported it], after it had been emptied, (Lh, M, K,) not putting it down nor kindling a fire beneath it. (Lh, M.)

    داوم عَلَى الأَمْرِ

    3. داوم عَلَى الأَمْرِ, and داوم الأَمْرَ: see 1. See also 10.

    ادامهُ

    4. ادامهُ, (inf. n. إِدَامَةٌ, TA,) trans. of دَامَ; (S, M, * Msb, K; *) [i. e.] i. q. جَعَلَهُ دَائِمًا [He made it to continue, last, endure, or remain: to be extended, or prolonged: to continue, last, endure, or remain, long: and to continue, last, or exist, incessantly, always, endlessly, or for ever; to be permanent, perpetual, or everlasting]: (TK:) he did it continually, or perpetually: (MA:) he had it continually, or perpetually. (MA, KL.) [Accord. to Golius, followed in this case by Freytag, تداوم signifies Perennitate donavit; a signification app. given by Golius as on the authority of the KL; but not in my copy of that work.] ادام القِدْرَ: see 2, last sentence. ادام الدَّلْوَ (assumed tropical:) He filled the bucket. (K, TA.) الإِدَامَةٌ also signifies تَنْقِيرُ السَّهْمِ عَلَى الإِبْهَامِ [i. e. The trying the sonorific quality of the arrow by turning it round upon the thumb: or, as explained in this art. in the TK, the making the arrow to produce a sharp sound upon the thumb: or rather this or the former is the meaning of إِدَامَةُ السَّهْمِ; for, as is said in the TK, ادام السَّهْمَ signifies نقره على الابهام (i. e. نقّرهُ)]. (T, K.) ادامت السَّمَآءُ: see 1, in the latter half of the paragraph, in two places. أُدِيمَ بِهِ: see 1, last sentence but one.

    تَدَوَّمَ

    5: see 2: and see also 10.

    تَدَاْوَمَ

    6: see 2: and see also 4.

    استدام

    10. استدام: see 1. And see also 2. And اُسْتُدِيمَ: see 1, last sentence but one. As a trans. v., (T,) i. q. اِنْتَظَرَ, (Sb, T, TA,) as also تدوّم, (K, [or this may perhaps be used only without an objective complement expressed,]) and رَقَبَ, (T,) or تَرَقَّبَ: (Sh, TA:) you say, اِسْتَدِمْ كَذَا, meaning اِنْتَظِرْهُ and اُرْقُبْهُ (assumed tropical:) [Look thou for, expect, await, wait for, or watch for, such a thing.] (T.) [When no objective complement is expressed, it seems to mean (assumed tropical:) He paused, and acted with deliberation, or in a patient or leisurely manner, or he waited in expectation; app. from the same verb as syn. with دَوَّمَ; and thus, like one who hovers about a thing: see حَوَّمَ; and see also اِنْتَظَرَ.] And استدامهُ (tropical:) He acted with moderation, gently, deliberately, or leisurely, in it; (S, M, K, TA;) namely, an affair, or a case: (S:) or he sought, desired, asked, or demanded, its continuance, or long continuance, or endless continuance: and so داومهُ (M, K, TA) in both of these senses: (K, TA:) or he asked him to render a thing continual &c.: (Mgh, Msb, TA:) and also (assumed tropical:) he acted gently and deliberately in it; namely, an affair, or a case: (Msb:) and (assumed tropical:) he acted gently with him; (Fr, T in art. ديم, M, Msb, Kt;) i. e., another person, (Msb,) or his creditor; as also اِسْتَدْمَاهُ, (Fr, T, M, K,) which we judge to be formed from the former by transposition, because we do not find it [in this sense] to have any inf. n. (M.) A poet says, (T, S, Msb,) namely, Keys Ibn-Zuheyr, (S,) (T, S, Msb,) i. e. (assumed tropical:) [Therefore haste not in thine affair, but act with moderation, gently, deliberately, or leisurely, therein]; for no one has straightened thy staff by turning it round over the fire, (T,) meaning, no one has managed thine affair soundly, like one who acts with moderation, &c. (T, Msb.) And another says, (S,) namely, Mejnoon, (TA,) meaning (assumed tropical:) [And verily I am blaming Leylà; and verily, notwithstanding that,] I look for her aiding me by good conduct [in the matter that is between us]. (S.) You say also, أَسْتَدِيمُ ٱللّٰهَ نِعْمَتَكَ I seek, or desire, or ask, of God the continuance, or long continuance, or endless continuance, of thy favour, or the like. (Mgh, TA. *) And أَسْتَدِيمُ ٱللّٰهَ عِزَّكَ I ask God to continue, or continue long, &c., thy might, or power, &c. (Msb.) The phrase استدام لُبْسَ الثَّوْبِ, meaning [He continued long the wearing of the garment, or] he did not hasten to pull off the garment, may be from the saying اِسْتَدَمْتُ عَاقِبَةَ الأَمْرِ, meaning I looked, or watched, or waited, for the end, or issue, or result, of the affair, or case. (Msb.) Also He (a man) stooped his head, blood dropping from it: formed by transposition from اِسْتَدْمَى (Kr, TA.)

    دَامٌ

    دَامٌ for دَائِمٌ: see the latter word.

    دَوْمٌ

    دَوْمٌ an inf. n. of 1 [q. v.]. (S, M, Msb, K.) — [Hence,] مَا زَالَتِ السَّمَآءُ دَوْمًا دَوْمًا The sky ceased not to rain [in the manner of the rain termed دِيمَة]; and so دَيْمًا دَيْمًا; (M, K; [in the CK, erroneously, دِيْمًا دِيْمًا;]) in which the ى is interchangeable with the و; (M;) mentioned by AHn, on the authority of Fr. (TA.) See also دَائِمٌ, in two places. Also [The cucifera Thebaïca; (Delile, “ Floræ Ægypt. Illustr., ” no. 941;) or Theban Palm; so called because abundant in the Thebaïs; a species of fan-palm; by some called gingerbread: accord. to Forskål, (under the heading of “ Flora Arabiæ Felicis, ” in his “ Flora Ægypt. Arab., ” p. cxxvi.,) Borassus flabelliformis; a name applied (after him) by Sonnini to the Theban palm; but now generally used by botanists to designate another species of fan-palm:] the tree of the مُقْل; (S, M, Msb, K;) a well-known kind of tree, of which the fruit is [called] the مُقْل: (TA:) n. un. with ة: AHn says that the دَوْمَة [is a tree that] becomes thick and tall, and has [leaves of the kind termed] خُوص, like the خوص of the date-palm, and racemes like the racemes of a date-palm. (M, TA.) Accord. to Aboo-Ziyád El-Aarábee, (AHn, M,) The نَبِق [which properly signifies the fruit of the سِدْر, but here app. means, as it does in the present day, the tree called سِدْر, a species of lote-tree, called by Linn. rhamnus spina Christi, and by Forskal rhamnus nabeca,] is also thus called, (AHn, M, K,) by some of the Arabs: accord. to 'Omárah, great [trees of the kind termed] سِدْر: (AHn, M:) and, (M, K,) accord. to IAar, (M,) big trees of any kind. (M, K.) [See also دَوْمَةٌ, below.]

    دَيْمٌ

    دَيْمٌ, whence the saying مَا زَالَتِ السَّمَآءُ دَيْمًا دَيْمًا: see دَوْمٌ.

    دِيْمٌ

    دِيْمٌ: see دِيمَةٌ.

    دَوْمَةٌ

    دَوْمَةٌ n. un. of دَوْمٌ. (M, TA.) [Also, app., as in the present day, and as appears from what follows, A single fruit of the tree called دَوْم.] And (assumed tropical:) A testicle; (K;) as being likened to the fruit of the دَوْم. (TA.) [Golius also explains it, as on the authority of the K, as meaning “ Ebriosa mulier; ” and Freytag, as meaning “ mulier vinum vendens: ” both are wrong: it is mentioned in the K as the name of a woman who sold wine.]

    Lane, Arabic-English Lexiconread Lane's entry online ↗

The same three letters in all six orders. Choose one.

د و م

الدال والواو والميم أصل واحد يدل على السكون واللزوم

d-w-m is one root that indicates stillness and persistence.

Ibn Fāris ↗Lisān ↗Lane ↗al-Khalīl: used ↗Quran ×9

an entry in Ibn Fārislater sources onlyin none of them

Do these six share one core meaning?

About thisal-Khalīl, Ibn Jinnī, Ibn Fāris; the counts across the dictionary

al-Khalīl (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn, as transmitted by al-Layth: a two-letter word “turns in two ways”, a three-letter word “in six ways” (masdūsa), four letters in 24, five in 120; “its used forms are written down and its unused ones dropped” (line 975 ↗). The dictionary is built on this: each chapter takes a set of letters and names which orders are used (mustaʿmal) and which unused (muhmal). The ring shows that verdict, from the chapter heading as edited (documented in the text; how much of the book is al-Khalīl's own is disputed).

A reported total. al-Suyūṭī transmits, from Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī, that al-Khalīl put the possible forms, used and unused, of two to five letters at 12,305,412 (al-Muzhir, line 1347 ↗). It is reported, not found in the ʿAyn. It equals exactly the arrangements of 2 to 5 different letters out of 28 (756 + 19,656 + 491,400 + 11,793,600); the breakdown printed beside it is corrupt, and al-Zubaydī's count, given next, differs (6,659,400).

Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, names the greater derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-akbar): bind a three-letter root and its six orders to one meaning, and bring stray members back “by the subtlety of the craft and interpretation” (line 7536 ↗). He says himself that it does not hold for every root (line 167 ↗; line 7603 ↗).

Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004) gives each root its own aṣl and treats a rearranged word as maqlūb, “turned round”, and so not a root of its own: “j-b-dh is not a root, because it is a single word, turned round” (Maqāyīs, line 6147 ↗). The ring sets his aṣl for each order side by side; whether they meet is the question.

Neighbours on the ring differ by one swap of two letters.

The critique. A source quoted by al-Suyūṭī calls the greater derivation Ibn Jinnī's innovation, “not relied on in the language” (al-Muzhir, line 6159 ↗).

The other axis. The root's letters also go into patterns that keep their order and change the frame: the patterns (awzān) and the verb Forms I–X.

Across Ibn Fāris's dictionary. Of the 2,300 possible sets of three different sound letters (no hamza, w or y), 1,021 have at least one order as an entry. How many of their six orders are entries:

Ibn Fāris, entries found (1,021 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6319
  2. 2 of 6218
  3. 3 of 6164
  4. 4 of 6155
  5. 5 of 6107
  6. 6 of 658
al-Khalīl, orders his headings call used (746 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6148
  2. 2 of 6108
  3. 3 of 6157
  4. 4 of 6179
  5. 5 of 6111
  6. 6 of 643

Of the orders al-Khalīl calls used, 2,097 are entries in Ibn Fāris and 267 are not; 17 that he calls unused are entries in Ibn Fāris.

Our computation from the OpenITI texts; heading detection can miss entries

Attested here means found in our digital texts (Ibn Fāris, Lisān al-ʿArab, Lane, the Quranic Arabic Corpus), with w and y kept apart and hamza spellings merged; it is our data, not a classical verdict. English beside the Arabic is AI translation. Sources and grades: docs/research/root-permutations.md.

How each letter is made, in brief, from Sībawayh's and Ibn Jinnī's own sentences (linked); their words are under Reference.

Sharing two of its three letters (computed; kinship of form, not of meaning)

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How it is madeSībawayh and Ibn Jinnī · phonetics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

د

ومما بين طرف اللسان وأصول الثنايا مخرج الطاء، والدال، والتاء

From between the tip of the tongue and the roots of the front teeth is the place of the ṭāʾ, the dāl and the tāʾ. Sībawayh, line 26559 ↗

ومما بين طرف اللسان وأصول الثنايا، مخرج الطاء والدال والتاء

From between the tip of the tongue and the roots of the front teeth is the place of the ṭāʾ, the dāl and the tāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, line 982 ↗

و

ومما بين الشفتين مخرج الباء، والميم، والواو

From between the two lips is the place of the bāʾ, the mīm and the wāw. Sībawayh, line 26563 ↗

ومما بين الشفتين مخرج الباء والميم والواو

From between the two lips is the place of the bāʾ, the mīm and the wāw. Ibn Jinnī, line 986 ↗

م

ومما بين الشفتين مخرج الباء، والميم، والواو

From between the two lips is the place of the bāʾ, the mīm and the wāw. Sībawayh, line 26563 ↗

ومما بين الشفتين مخرج الباء والميم والواو

From between the two lips is the place of the bāʾ, the mīm and the wāw. Ibn Jinnī, line 986 ↗

Sībawayh, al-Kitāb (ed. Hārūn) and Ibn Jinnī, Sirr ṣināʿat al-iʿrāb; OpenITI digital texts (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Full credits on each letter's page.

In the Breath of the All-MercifulIbn ʿArabī · metaphysics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

د

Level of existence: السماء الدنيا · the lowest heaven (al-samāʾ al-dunyā)

Divine Name: المبين · the Clarifier (al-Mubīn)

Lunar mansion: الأكليل · al-Iklīl

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64682

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582

و

Level of existence: تعيين الرتب والمقامات والمنازل · the determination of ranks, stations and waystations

Divine Name: رفيع الدرجات · Rafīʿ al-Darajāt, Exalted in Degrees

Lunar mansion: الرشا · al-Rashāʾ

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 62121

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582

م

Level of existence: الإنسان · the human being

Divine Name: الجامع · al-Jāmiʿ, the Gatherer

Lunar mansion: المؤخر · al-Muʾakhkhar

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 62119

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582
Meaning by vowelal-Dabbāgh · a visionary claim about a primordial “Syriac”, not historical Syriac

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

د

فهي إشارة إلى خارج عن الذات.

It is an indication of something external to the self.

فهي إشارة إلى ما هو قليل أو قبيح ومعه غضب فيهما.

It is an indication of what is small or ugly, accompanied by anger in both cases.

فهي إشارة إلى ما في الذات أو إلى ما هو داخل عليها أو إلى ما هو قريب منها.

It is an indication of what is in the self, or what is entering upon it, or what is near to it.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

و

فهي الأشياء المشتبكة في الإنسان مثل العروق والأصابع وما أشبه ذلك.

It is the intertwined things in the human being, such as veins, fingers and the like.

فهي الأشياء المباينة لبني آدم مثل الأفلاك والجبال وما أشبه ذلك

It is things distinct from the children of Adam, such as the celestial spheres, mountains and the like.

فهي الأشياء المشتبكة المستقذرة أو المبغوضة كالأمعاء ونحوها.

It is intertwined things that are filthy or detested, such as the intestines and the like.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

م

فهي جميع المكونات.

It is all created beings.

فهي العزيز القليل كماء العين، ومنه قيل مومو.

It is the precious, scarce thing, like the water of the eye; from it comes the expression 'mūmū'.

فهي نور الذات ظاهرا كما في العين، وباطنا كما في القلب.

It is the light of the self, outwardly as in the eye and inwardly as in the heart.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī
Two-letter nucleus9 roots in Ibn Fāris’s chapterد و

Ibn Fāris groups his roots under two-letter chapters (“the X and the Y and what makes them three”). These are the roots of this root's chapter with the core sense he gives each. Setting them side by side is our juxtaposition; he does not himself draw a shared meaning. His chapter heading, line 10287 ↗

  • دوىالدال والواو والحرف المعتل هذا باب يتقارب أصوله ولا يكاد شيء منه ينقاس فلذلك كتبنا كلماته على وجوهها فالدوي دوي النحل وهو ما يسمع منه إذا تجمع والدواءL10288
  • دوسالدال والواو والسين أصيل وهو دوس الشيء تقول دسته والذي يداس به مدوس وحمل عليه قولهم لما يسن به الصيقل السيف مدوس كأنه عند اتكائه عليه كالذي يدوس الشيءL10337
  • دوفالدال والواو والفاء كلمة واحدةL10343
  • دوقالدال والواو والقاف ليس أصلا ولا فيه ما يعد لغة لكنهم يقولون مائق دائقL10344
  • دوكالدال والواو والكاف أصل واحد يدل على ضغط وتزاحم فيقولون دكت الشيء دوكا والمداك صلاية الطيب يدوك عليها الإنسان الطيب دوكاL10345
  • دولالدال والواو واللام أصلان أحدهما يدل على تحول شيء من مكان إلى مكان والآخر يدل على ضعف واسترخاء فأما الأول فقال أهل اللغة اندال القوم إذا تحولوا من مكاQ 2 · L10351
  • دومالدال والواو والميم أصل واحد يدل على السكون واللزومQ 9 · L10359
  • دونالدال والواو والنون أصل واحد يدل على المداناة والمقاربةQ 144 · L10386
  • دوهالدال والواو والهاء ليس بشيء يقولون الدوه التحيرL10392
In the sister scriptsHebrew ד ו מSyriac ܕ ܘ ܡ
Arabicد و م
Hebrewד ו מ
Syriacܕ ܘ ܡ
Ancient South Arabian (musnad)𐩵 𐩥 𐩣
Phoenician𐤃 𐤅 𐤌

Letter for letter, by the regular sound correspondences of the Semitic languages (Arabic keeps several sounds the others merged). This shows how the root would be spelled; whether a related word exists is a separate question, answered in the Semitic lens. Where an Arabic sibilant (s, sh) continues two older sounds, both spellings are shown.

  • Classical lexiconAl-Jawharī records dāma yadūmu/yadāmu with the images that anchor the root's field: dawwamat al-shams fī kabid al-samāʾ, the sun 'hovering' motionless at its zenith, and dawwamat al-qidr, calming a pot's boil with water.well attested

    The lexicographers in chronological order, from al-Khalīl to Lane.

    Al-Jawharī records dāma yadūmu/yadāmu with the images that anchor the root's field: dawwamat al-shams fī kabid al-samāʾ, the sun 'hovering' motionless at its zenith, and dawwamat al-qidr, calming a pot's boil with water. Ibn Fāris then states the single aṣl explicitly as sukūn wa luzūm, stillness and fixity, citing the still (dāʾim) water the Prophet forbade urinating into, and the hovering bird's dawwama in the air as a momentary pause. Al-Rāghib builds directly on this: the root of dawām is rest, and only by extension does it come to mean 'time stretching over a thing' (imtidād al-zamān ʿalayhi), as in the Quranic mā dumtu fīhim and mā dāmū fīhā. Ibn Manẓūr adds the grammarians' dispute over the irregular pairing dumta/tadūmu vs. dimta/tadāmu, and Lane preserves this morphological anomaly as evidence of the root's antiquity. The historical trajectory is thus paradoxical: 'permanence' is lexically built from 'not moving,' not from 'continuing to happen.'

    Draws on: sihah · Ibn Fāris · mufradat · lisan · Lane

    • al-Jawharī, al-Ṣiḥāḥ, root د-و-م
    • Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-Lugha, root د-و-م
    • al-Rāghib, al-Mufradāt, root د-و-م
    • Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab, root د-و-م
    • Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon, root د-و-م
  • Letters & soundIn the letter-correspondence table used here, د marks 'the lowest heaven,' و the 'determination of ranks, stations and waystations,' and م 'the human being' — a sequence that could be read as: exteriority (د), ordered stations (و), and the human traversing them (م), which resonates loosely with dawām as sustained passage through stable stations rather than flux.speculative

    What the theorists of sound symbolism would say of these letters. Speculative by nature.

    In the letter-correspondence table used here, د marks 'the lowest heaven,' و the 'determination of ranks, stations and waystations,' and م 'the human being' — a sequence that could be read as: exteriority (د), ordered stations (و), and the human traversing them (م), which resonates loosely with dawām as sustained passage through stable stations rather than flux. Al-Dabbāgh's fatḥa-glosses run parallel: د as what is external to the self, و as the intertwined connective tissue within the human being (veins, fingers), م as all created beings. This is offered only as a suggestive resonance; mainstream historical linguistics does not treat individual Arabic letters as bearers of fixed meaning, and no causal claim is intended.

    Draws on: akbari198 · dabbagh

    • Akbarian letter-correspondence table (198)
    • al-Dabbāgh, letter meanings (fatḥa series)
  • Root structureAmong Ibn Fāris's د-و chapters, دوم (stillness/fixity) sits beside دول, whose second sense is ḍaʿf wa-istirkhāʾ, weakness and slackening — a suggestive neighborhood, since both roots register a diminishment of motion or force, one as calm fixity, the other as flagging.plausible

    The two-letter nucleus (Ibn Fāris's own chapters) and the permutations of the letters (Ibn Jinnī).

    Among Ibn Fāris's د-و chapters, دوم (stillness/fixity) sits beside دول, whose second sense is ḍaʿf wa-istirkhāʾ, weakness and slackening — a suggestive neighborhood, since both roots register a diminishment of motion or force, one as calm fixity, the other as flagging. The permutation table for د-و-م itself (the letters reordered) shows only دوم (9 Qurʾānic occurrences) and ومد (intense heat/anger) marked as attested roots, while دمو, ودم, مدو and مود are given no independent standing — a fact Ibn Jinnī's greater-derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-akbar) approach would note without claiming semantic causation between the orders. That مدو is glossed elsewhere as 'extension, prolongation' (imtidād) is a striking echo of دوم's own extended sense of duration, but this is juxtaposition only, not derivation.

    Draws on: ibn-faris-nucleus · permutation-table

    • Wiktionary, Arabic root appendix د و م (link not verified)
    • Ibn Jinnī, al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, chapter on greater derivation (link not verified)
  • Semitic kin & loanwordsHebrew דמם (dmm), 'to be silent, still, cease' (e.g.plausible

    Cognates in the sister languages, and whether the word was borrowed.

    Hebrew דמם (dmm), 'to be silent, still, cease' (e.g. Leviticus 10:3, 'wa-yiddom Aharon'), matches the Arabic root's core sense of sukūn very closely in meaning, though the root-shapes differ: Arabic دوم is a hollow (mediae-wāw) root while Hebrew דמם is geminate. This kind of alternation between hollow and geminate biradical-plus reduplicated patterns is a recognized phenomenon across Semitic and makes a genuine historical connection plausible, though not certain given the consonantal mismatch. No Akkadian, Ge'ez, or South Arabian cognate is confidently attested for this specific sense. There is no reason to think دوم is a loanword; it behaves as an inherited Semitic root.

    Draws on: hebrew-comparison

  • Quranic exegesisAt 13:35, ukuluhā dāʾim, the exegetes read dāʾim as 'unceasing, uninterrupted' fruit of Paradise, explicitly contrasted with worldly produce that is seasonal and subject to lapse — the word carries forward the lexical sense of something that does not fluctuate or run out.well attested

    How the classical exegetes read the word in the Quran.

    At 13:35, ukuluhā dāʾim, the exegetes read dāʾim as 'unceasing, uninterrupted' fruit of Paradise, explicitly contrasted with worldly produce that is seasonal and subject to lapse — the word carries forward the lexical sense of something that does not fluctuate or run out. At 3:75 and 5:117, mā dumta/dumtu functions as a temporal-conditional hinge ('as long as'), read straightforwardly by al-Ṭabarī as duration of a state (standing guard over a deposit; being present as witness). At 5:24, mā dāmū fīhā (Israel's refusal to enter the land 'as long as' the giants remain) is likewise read as conditioned duration rather than eternal impossibility. At 70:23, ʿalā ṣalātihim dāʾimūn, al-Rāghib's etymological link to sukūn is invoked by commentators to argue that dāʾim here signals an inwardly settled constancy of devotion, not merely outward repetition of the ritual.

    Draws on: tabari · razi · raghib · quran

  • Philosophy & kalāmDawām figures in falsafa debates over the eternity of the world: Avicenna characterizes the cosmos as qadīm and dāʾim al-wujūd, perpetually existent because perpetually caused by an eternal First Cause, so that its dawām is not self-sufficient duration but continuous dependence.plausible

    The word as a technical term in falsafa and theology.

    Dawām figures in falsafa debates over the eternity of the world: Avicenna characterizes the cosmos as qadīm and dāʾim al-wujūd, perpetually existent because perpetually caused by an eternal First Cause, so that its dawām is not self-sufficient duration but continuous dependence. The mutakallimūn oppose this with ḥudūth (temporal origination), denying that anything but God can properly be described by unqualified dawām. The term thus becomes a technical marker in the qidam/ḥudūth controversy, distinguishing 'necessary, unbroken duration' from 'duration granted moment by moment.'

  • Akbarian readingIn Faṣṣ Ādam, dāma appears in the image of the king's seal upon his treasuries: mā dāma khatmu al-maliki ʿalayhā lā yajsuru aḥad ʿalā fatḥihā illā bi-idhnihi — so long as the seal remains, no one dares open the treasury without permission.plausible

    The word in Ibn ʿArabī's text and terminology.

    In Faṣṣ Ādam, dāma appears in the image of the king's seal upon his treasuries: mā dāma khatmu al-maliki ʿalayhā lā yajsuru aḥad ʿalā fatḥihā illā bi-idhnihi — so long as the seal remains, no one dares open the treasury without permission. Ibn ʿArabī uses this dāma (temporal-conditional, 'as long as') to explain how God preserves creation through His names as a seal preserves what is sealed: permanence here is figured, exactly as the lexicographers have it, as fixity/sealing rather than ongoing motion. The passage occurs twice in the given excerpts, reinforcing that the durability of the safeguarded order depends on the seal's remaining in place, not on any activity of the sealed things themselves.

    Draws on: fass-adam

    • Ibn ʿArabī, Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam, Faṣṣ Ādam
  • Illuminationist readingSuhrawardī speaks of the dawām al-fayḍ, the continuous overflow of light from the Light of Lights that sustains the subordinate lights without interruption;plausible

    The word in Suhrawardī's philosophy of light.

    Suhrawardī speaks of the dawām al-fayḍ, the continuous overflow of light from the Light of Lights that sustains the subordinate lights without interruption; here dawām names not a static endurance but an unceasing act of illumination that never lapses into darkness. This usage keeps the lexical root's stress on unbroken constancy while redirecting it from stillness to perpetual radiance — the light does not 'move' toward the lower lights so much as remain constantly poured out upon them.

    Draws on: suhrawardi-emanation

    • Suhrawardī, Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq, on the emanation of lights
Neighbouring rootsThe roots that share letters with this one, as a map you can open out