جحمة

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ج ح م (j ḥ m)
3 terms

Noun

جَحْمَة • (jaḥma) f

burning fiercely, being fiery, blazing

Declension

Declension of noun جَحْمَة (jaḥma)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جَحْمَة jaḥma	الْجَحْمَة al-jaḥma	جَحْمَة jaḥmat
Nominative	جَحْمَةٌ jaḥmatun	الْجَحْمَةُ al-jaḥmatu	جَحْمَةُ jaḥmatu
Accusative	جَحْمَةً jaḥmatan	الْجَحْمَةَ al-jaḥmata	جَحْمَةَ jaḥmata
Genitive	جَحْمَةٍ jaḥmatin	الْجَحْمَةِ al-jaḥmati	جَحْمَةِ jaḥmati

Etymology 2

According to the lexicographers a Himyaritic borrowing.
Perhaps instead from the root ج ح م (j-ḥ-m) “being blazing; vehement” via the idea of staring, as an originally coarse word, or the eyes being considered the window by which one sees the fire of the soul.
A borrowing from a descendant of Proto-Iranian *čášma n (“eye”), be it via Old South Arabian, can also be presumed, not requiring a particular Iranian source language, since the medial /ʃ/ would have been dissimilated in any case to resolve the homorganicity with /d͡ʒ/.

Noun

جَحْمَة • (jaḥma) f

(obsolete, Yemen) eye
Synonym: عَيْن (ʕayn)
- a. 750, unknown, quoted by Kitāb al-ʿAyn and Taḏhīb al-Luḡa:
  فَفَاضَتْ دُمُوعُ الْجَحْمَتَيْنِ بِعَبْرَةٍ … عَلَى الزُبِّ حَتَّى الزُبِّ فِي المَاءِ غَامِس
  fa-fāḍat dumūʕu l-jaḥmatayni bi-ʕabratin … ʕalā z-zubbi ḥattā z-zubbi fī l-māʔi ḡāmis
  And the tears of the two eyes overflowed without sobbing … over the beard, until the beard was dipping into water

Declension

Declension of noun جَحْمَة (jaḥma)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جَحْمَة jaḥma	الْجَحْمَة al-jaḥma	جَحْمَة jaḥmat
Nominative	جَحْمَةٌ jaḥmatun	الْجَحْمَةُ al-jaḥmatu	جَحْمَةُ jaḥmatu
Accusative	جَحْمَةً jaḥmatan	الْجَحْمَةَ al-jaḥmata	جَحْمَةَ jaḥmata
Genitive	جَحْمَةٍ jaḥmatin	الْجَحْمَةِ al-jaḥmati	جَحْمَةِ jaḥmati

Derived terms

جَحَّمَ (jaḥḥama, “to regard with fixed eyes”)
جُحَام (juḥām, “a disease of the eyes where they are swollen”)

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