أرمل

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Arabic

Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *alman- (widower).

Pronunciation

Noun

أَرْمَل (ʔarmalm (plural أَرَامِلُ (ʔarāmilu) or أَرَامِلَة (ʔarāmila), feminine أَرْمَلَة (ʔarmala))

  1. widower
Declension

Etymology 2

Denominal verb of رَمْل (raml, sand)

Pronunciation

Verb

أَرْمَلَ (ʔarmala) IV (non-past يُرْمِلُ (yurmilu), verbal noun إِرْمَال (ʔirmāl))

  1. to become sandy, to have sand upon oneself or cleave to the sand
  2. to have dispersed one’s provisions, to have consumed one’s cates, to have exhausted one’s vivers
    • a. 1000, an unnamed poet, is quoted by الزمخشري in المستقصى في أمثال العرب and by أبو الفضل أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم الميداني النيسابوري in كتاب مجمع الأمثال, with the verses:
      وَأَنْتَ كَذِئْبِ السُّوء إذْ قَالَ مَرَّةً ... لِعَمْرُوسَةٍ وَٱلذِّئْبُ غَرْثَانُ مُرْمِلُ
      أَأَنْتِ ٱلَّتِي مِنْ غَيْرِ جُرْمٍ سَبَبْتِنِي ... [……………………………]
      waʔanta kaḏiʔbi s-sūʔ ʔiḏ qāla marratan ... liʕamrūsatin waḏ-ḏiʔbu ḡarṯānu murmilu
      ʔaʔanti llatī min ḡayri jurmin sababtinī ... [……………………………]
      You are like an evil wolf when he said one time to a small lamb, hungry and short of food: Are you without crime? You have abused me.
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