ش ح م

Arabic

Root

ش ح م • (š-ḥ-m)

1. related to fat, grease

Derived terms

• Form I: شَحُمَ (šaḥuma, “to be or become fat”)
  • Verbal noun: شَحَامَة (šaḥāma)
  • Active participle: شَاحِم (šāḥim)
• Form I: شَحَمَ (šaḥama, “to be desirous of fat; to feed fat”)
  • Verbal noun: شَحْم (šaḥm)
  • Active participle: شَاحِم (šāḥim)
  • Passive participle: مَشْحُوم (mašḥūm)
• Form II: شَحَّمَ (šaḥḥama, “to smear with fat”)
  • Verbal noun: تَشْحِيم (tašḥīm)
  • Active participle: مُشَحِّم (mušaḥḥim)
  • Passive participle: مُشَحَّم (mušaḥḥam)
• Form IV: أَشْحَمَ (ʔašḥama, “to have much fat in one’s possessions”)
  • Verbal noun: إِشْحَام (ʔišḥām)
  • Active participle: مُشْحِم (mušḥim)
• Form V: تَشَحَّمَ (tašaḥḥama, “to get more fat onto oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: تَشَحُّم (tašaḥḥum)
  • Active participle: مُتَشَحِّم (mutašaḥḥim)

• شَحْم (šaḥm, “fat”)
• شَحْمَة (šaḥma, “piece of fat; things likened to a piece of fat”)
• شَحَّام (šaḥḥām, “fat trader”)
• شَحُّوم (šaḥḥūm, “Gagea reticulata”)
• شَحِم (šaḥim, “desirous of fat; of a texture resembling fat”)
• شَحِيم (šaḥīm, “fatty”)
• مِشْحَمَة (mišḥama, “grease pit, grease box”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ش ح م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 399
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ش ح م”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1513
• Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 108, 160, 316
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ش ح م”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 534