رخم

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Arabic

Root
ر خ م (r ḵ m)
4 terms

Etymology 1.1

Verb

رَخُمَ (raḵuma) I (non-past يَرْخُمُ (yarḵumu), verbal noun رَخَامَة (raḵāma))

  1. to be gentle, to be pleasant (of the voice)
Conjugation

Etymology 1.2

Verb

رَخَمَ (raḵama) I (non-past يَرْخُمُ (yarḵumu) or يَرْخَمُ (yarḵamu), verbal noun رَخْم (raḵm))

  1. to treat with gentleness, to be enjoyable to, to play with
  2. to incubate, to brood, to hatch
  3. to soothe (with motherly milk)
Conjugation

Etymology 1.3

Verb

رَخَّمَ (raḵḵama) II (non-past يُرَخِّمُ (yuraḵḵimu), verbal noun تَرْخِيم (tarḵīm))

  1. to make gentle, to soften (the voice)
  2. (linguistics, grammar) to apocopate (a word)
    • Ibn Malik
      تَرْخِيمًا ٱحْذِفْ آخِرَ ٱلْمُنَادَى / كَـ: يَا سُعَا، فِي مَنْ دَعَا سُعَادَا
      وَجَوِّزَنْهُ مُطْلَقًا فِي كُلِّ مَا /أُنِّثَ بِـ: ٱلْهَا، وَٱلَّذِي قَدْ رُخِّمَا
      tarḵīman ḥḏif ʔāḵira l-munādā / ka: yā suʕā, fī man daʕā suʕādā
      wajawwizanhu muṭlaqan fī kulli mā /ʔunniṯa bi: l-hā, wallaḏī qad ruḵḵimā
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. to cover (a floor) with marble
Conjugation

Etymology 1.4

Noun

رَخْم (raḵmm

  1. verbal noun of رَخَمَ (raḵama) (form I)
Declension

Etymology 1.5

Noun

رَخَم (raḵamm

  1. gentleness, kindness, affection
  2. thick milk
Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

رَخَم (raḵamm (collective, singulative رَخَمَة f (raḵama))

  1. Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus)
Declension

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَخَم (raḵam).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? raxam
Dari reading? raxam
Iranian reading? raxam
Tajik reading? raxam

Noun

رَخَم (raxam)

  1. (literary, obsolete) gentleness, lovingkindness, affection
    • c. 1380, Jahān Malik Khātūn, “Ghazal 379”, in دیوان جهان [Divān-i Jahān]‎:
      گر به عید رخم تو بنوازی
      غیر جانم چه هست قربانت
      gar ba īd-i raxam tu binwāzī
      ğayr-i jān-am či hast qurbān-at
      Should you caress on the feast-day of affection,
      What sacrifice should I make you other than my soul?
      (Classical Persian romanization)
  2. (literary, obsolete) thick milk