قمط

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Arabic

Etymology

From Aramaic קמט / ܩܡܛ (qmaṭ), and noun ܩܡܛܐ (qemṭā, qamṭā). See also from the same semantic domain صَفَد (ṣafad), كِبْل (kibl), قَيْد (qayd).

Noun

قِمْط or قَمْط (qimṭ or qamṭm (plural أَقْمَاط (ʔaqmāṭ))

  1. restraint, fetter, rope or clamp
  2. (Yemen) a kind of flatbread

Declension

Descendants

  • Maltese: qamat

Verb

قَمَطَ (qamaṭa) I (non-past يَقْمُطُ (yaqmuṭu) or يَقْمِطُ (yaqmiṭu), verbal noun قَمْط (qamṭ))

  1. to fetter, to restrain
  2. to tighten, to bandage or swaddle

Conjugation

Verb

قَمَّطَ (qammaṭa) II (non-past يُقَمِّطُ (yuqammiṭu), verbal noun تَقْمِيط (taqmīṭ))

  1. to tighten, to bandage or swaddle

Conjugation

Noun

قُمُط (qumuṭpl

  1. plural of قِمَاط (qimāṭ, swaddle)

Noun

قُمَط (qumaṭpl

  1. plural of قَمْطَة (qamṭa, a kind of kerchief)

References

  • qmṭ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قمط”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 497b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قمط”, 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, page 813
  • Růžička, Rudolf (1909) “Konsonantische Dissimilation in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), volume VI, number 4, Leipzig · Baltimore: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung · The Johns Hopkins Press, page 79
  • Spiro, Socrates (1895) “قمط”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office, page 501
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “قمط”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 765