نخامة

Arabic

Root
ن خ م (n-ḵ-m)

Noun

نُخَامَة • (nuḵāma) f

1. slime, mucus, pituita
   • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 55:94:

     أَتَانَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي مَسْجِدِنَا هَذَا وَفِي يَدِهِ عُرْجُونُ ٱبْنِ طَابٍ فَرَأَى فِي قِبْلَةِ الْمَسْجِدِ نُخَامَةً فَحَكَّهَا بِالْعُرْجُونِ

     ʔatānā rasūlu l-lahi ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama fī masjidinā haḏā wafī yadihi ʕurjūnu bni ṭābin faraʔā fī qiblati l-masjidi nuḵāmatan faḥakkahā bi-l-ʕurjūni

     Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) came to us in this mosque and he had in his hand the branch of an Ibn-Ṭāb date palm and he saw slime in the qibla of the mosque and he abraded it with the twig.

Declension

Declension of noun نُخَامَة (nuḵāma)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	نُخَامَة nuḵāma	النُّخَامَة an-nuḵāma	نُخَامَة nuḵāmat
Nominative	نُخَامَةٌ nuḵāmatun	النُّخَامَةُ an-nuḵāmatu	نُخَامَةُ nuḵāmatu
Accusative	نُخَامَةً nuḵāmatan	النُّخَامَةَ an-nuḵāmata	نُخَامَةَ nuḵāmata
Genitive	نُخَامَةٍ nuḵāmatin	النُّخَامَةِ an-nuḵāmati	نُخَامَةِ nuḵāmati

Derived terms

• نُخَامِيّ (nuḵāmiyy)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “نخامة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 257
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نخامة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1255