ج ح م

Arabic

Root

ج ح م • (j-ḥ-m)

1. related to blazing, being fiery

Derived terms

• Form I: جَحُمَ (jaḥuma, “to burn, to blaze, to fire, to have many flames, to become vehement and fiery”)
  • Verbal noun: جُحُوم (juḥūm)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَجْحُوم (majḥūm)
• Form I: جَحِمَ (jaḥima, “to burn, to blaze, to fire, to have many flames, to become vehement and fiery”)
  • Verbal noun: جَحَم (jaḥam), جُحُوم (juḥūm)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَجْحُوم (majḥūm)
• Form I: جَحَمَ (jaḥama, “to kindle, to make burn fiercely”)
  • Verbal noun: جَحْم (jaḥm)
  • Active participle: جَاحِم (jāḥim)
  • Passive participle: مَجْحُوم (majḥūm)
• Form II: جَحَّمَ (jaḥḥama, “to regard with fixed eyes”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجْحِيم (tajḥīm)
  • Active participle: مُجَحِّم (mujaḥḥim)
  • Passive participle: مُجَحَّم (mujaḥḥam)
• Form IV: أَجْحَمَ (ʔajḥama, “to become vehement and fiery; to advance or come forward; to recede, to go back; to refrain, to abstain”)
  • Verbal noun: إِجْحَام (ʔijḥām)
  • Active participle: مُجْحِم (mujḥim)
• Form V: تَجَحَّمَ (tajaḥḥama, “to blaze; to burn with desire; to burn with stinginess”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجَحُّم (tajaḥḥum)
  • Active participle: مُتَجَحِّم (mutajaḥḥim)
• Form VI: تَجَاحَمَ (tajāḥama, “to become straitened in disposition”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجَاحُم (tajāḥum)
  • Active participle: مُتَجَاحِم (mutajāḥim)

• جَحَّام (jaḥḥām, “stingy, penurious”)
• جَحِيم (jaḥīm, “fire”)
• جَحْمَة (jaḥma, “burning fiercely; eye”)
• جُحَام (juḥām, “a disease of the eyes where they are swollen”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ج ح م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 247b–248b
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ج ح م”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 257
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ج ح م”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 384a