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قمط

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Arabic

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Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Maltese: qamat

Verb

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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

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Verb

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

  1. to tighten, to bandage or swaddle

Conjugation

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Noun

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قُمُط (qumuṭpl

  1. plural of قِمَاط (qimāṭ, swaddle)

Noun

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قُمَط (qumaṭpl

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

References

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  • 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[1] (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[2] (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[3] (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