ل م ز

Arabic

Etymology

Cf. غَمَزَ (ḡamaza) / غ م ز (ḡ-m-z), هَمَزَ (hamaza) / ه م ز (h m z), طَنَزَ (ṭanaza) / ط ن ز (ṭ n z).

Root

ل م ز • (l-m-z)

1. (obsolete, rare) related to pushing forward towards something, striking, impelling
2. related to ill talk, even though it be truth

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: لَمَزَ (lamaza, “tu thrust, to move forward towards; to criticize, to insult”)
  • Verbal noun: لَمْز (lamz)
  • Active participle: لَامِز (lāmiz)
  • Passive participle: مَلْمُوز (malmūz)
• Form III: لَامَزَ (lāmaza)
  • Verbal noun: مُلَامَزَة (mulāmaza)
  • Active participle: مُلَامِز (mulāmiz)
  • Passive participle: مُلَامَز (mulāmaz)
• Form V: تَلَمَّزَ (talammaza, “to walk quickly”)
  • Verbal noun: تَلَمُّز (talammuz)
  • Active participle: مُتَلَمِّز (mutalammiz)

• لَمَّاز (lammāz), لَامِز (lāmiz), لُمَزَة (lumaza, “evil-speaker, vituperator”)
• لَمْزَة (lamza, “vituperation”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ل م ز”, 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 125
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ل م ز”, 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 C^ie, page 1025
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ل م ز”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2672–2673
• Ullmann, Manfred (1992–2000) Wörterbuch der klassischen arabischen Sprache. Band II (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 1359–1361
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ل م ز”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1030