See also: کدم and گدم

Arabic

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Root
ك د م (k d m)
2 terms

Verb

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كَدَمَ (kadama) I (non-past يَكْدُمُ (yakdumu) or يَكْدِمُ (yakdimu), verbal noun كَدْم (kadm))

  1. to bruise, to contuse
  2. (obsolete or dialectal) to bite
  3. (obsolete or dialectal) to sear, to brand, to mark with a cautery

Conjugation

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Noun

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كَدْم (kadmm

  1. verbal noun of كَدَمَ (kadama) (form I), bruise, contusion

Declension

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Noun

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كِدَم (kidampl

  1. plural of كِدْمَة (kidma, a kind of bread)

References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “كدم”, 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 18a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “كدم”, 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 875b
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “كدم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 788, where the meaning “to bite with the front teeth” has been removed in comparison to previous editions
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “كدم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 957