ح م ض
Arabic
Etymology
Cognate to Hebrew ח־מ־ץ (ḥ-m-ṣ) and Aramaic ח־מ־ע / ܚ-ܡ-ܥ (ḥ-m-ʿ).
Root
ح م ض • (ḥ-m-ḍ)
- sour
Derived terms
- Form I: حَمُضَ (ḥamuḍa, “to be or become sour”)
- Verbal noun: حُمُوضَة (ḥumūḍa)
- Active participle: حَامِض (ḥāmiḍ)
- Form II: حَمَّضَ (ḥammaḍa, “to make sour”)
- Verbal noun: تَحْمِيض (taḥmīḍ)
- Active participle: مُحَمِّض (muḥammiḍ)
- Passive participle: مُحَمَّض (muḥammaḍ)
- Form IV: أَحْمَضَ (ʾaḥmaḍa, “to become abundant in حَمْض (ḥamḍ); to give حَمْض (ḥamḍ) to eat”)
- Verbal noun: إِحْمَاض (ʾiḥmāḍ)
- Active participle: مُحْمِض (muḥmiḍ)
- Form V: تَحَمَّضَ (taḥammaḍa)
- Verbal noun: تَحَمُّض (taḥammuḍ)
- Active participle: مُتَحَمِّض (mutaḥammiḍ)
- حَمْض (ḥamḍ, “a term used by Bedouins for saline, mostly chenopodiaceous and zygophyllaceous plants; acid”)
- حُمُوضَة (ḥumūḍa, “acidity”)
- حُمَّاض (ḥummāḍ, “sorrel”)
- حَمْضَة (ḥamḍa, “eager desire”)
- حَمِيضَة (ḥamīḍa, “land abounding with حَمْض (ḥamḍ)”)
- مَحْمَض (maḥmaḍ, “a place where camels pasture upon حَمْض (ḥamḍ)”)
References
- Freytag, Georg (1830), “ح م ض”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 427a–b
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ح م ض”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 492b–493a
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “ح م ض”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 644–645
- Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 339, and especially 190–196