أرمل

Arabic

FWOTD – 9 December 2021

Etymology 1

From Proto-Semitic *alman- (“widower”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔar.mal/

Noun

أَرْمَل • (ʔarmal) m (plural أَرَامِلُ‎ (ʔarāmilu) or أَرَامِلَة‎ (ʔarāmila), feminine أَرْمَلَة‎ (ʔarmala))

  1. widower
Declension

Etymology 2

Denominal verb of رَمْل‎ (raml, “sand”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔar.ma.la/

Verb

أَرْمَلَ • (ʔarmala) IV, non-past يُرْمِلُ‎‎ (yurmilu)

  1. to become sandy, to have sand upon oneself or cleave to the sand
  2. to have dispersed one’s provisions, to have consumed one’s cates, to have exhausted one’s vivers
    • a. 1000, an unnamed poet, is quoted by الزمخشري in المستقصى في أمثال العرب and by أبو الفضل أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم الميداني النيسابوري in كتاب مجمع الأمثال, with the verses:
      ‏وَأَنْتَ كَذِئْبِ السُّوء إذْ قَالَ مَرَّةً ... لِعَمْرُوسَةٍ وَٱلذِّئْبُ غَرْثَانُ مُرْمِلُ
      أَأَنْتِ ٱلَّتِي مِنْ غَيْرِ جُرْمٍ سَبَبْتِنِي ... [……………………………]
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      waʔanta kaḏiʔbi s-sūʔ ʔiḏ qāla marratan ... liʕamrūsatin waḏ-ḏiʔbu ḡarṯānu murmilu
      ʔaʔanti llatī min ḡayri jurmin sababtinī ... [……………………………]
      You are like an evil wolf when he said one time to a small lamb, hungry and short of food: Are you without crime? You have abused me.
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