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جمح

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Form 1جَمَحَ6 senses · 1 main
muḍāriʿـَيَفْعَلُmaṣdarجِمَاحٌ

Core sense — he ran away with his rider, overcoming him; he hastened heedlesslygenerated

1.1he overcame his rider and ran away so that he could not govern himجَمَحَ بِرَاكِبِهِ

maṣdar جِمَاحٌ, جُمُوحٌ, and جَمْحٌ, though this last may not have been heard. Said of a horse: he overcame his rider, or gained the mastery over him, running away with him; or he broke loose and ran off at random, with no certain aim, so that nothing could turn him; or he ran so as to have the mastery over his rider.

Or he became unruly, so that he overcame his rider.

Sometimes the verb also means he was quick, or swift, and brisk, lively, or sprightly. In that case it marks a quality that is approved, whereas in the senses above it marks one that is disapproved. In this last sense it is obsolete [unless applied figuratively to a man].

1.1.1figurative · مجاز — inferredhe hastened, or went quickly, to him, or it, so that his course was not turned for anythingإِلَيْهِ
they hastening, or going quicklyوَهُمْ يَجْمَحُونَ

Said of anything, that is, of a man or any animal: he went at random, or heedlessly, without consideration or certain aim, not obeying a guide to the right course. The second use is said of a man.

In the Qur'ān 9:57. Or hastening so that nothing turns them back, like the horse that is termed جَمُوح; or running like horses that overcome their riders and run away so as to be ungovernable by them.

he hastened after him, or it, so that nothing turned him backجَمَحَ فِى إِثْرِهِ

Occurs in a tradition.

1.1.2figurative · مجازthe woman went out from the place where she used to pass the night, in anger, without her husband's permissionجَمَحَتِ المَرْأَةُ
she went out from her husband's house, or tent, to her own family, before he divorced herجَمَحَتْ مِنْ زَوْجِهَا

So in the S and L and elsewhere, but in the K جَمَحَتْ زَوْجَهَا, which is clearly a mistake..

she went to her family without her husband's permissionجَمَحَتْ إِلَى أَهْلِهَا
1.1.3figurative · مجازthe ship quitted her course and became ungovernable by the sailorsجَمَحَتِ السَّفِينَةُ

Maṣdar جُمُوحٌ.

1.1.4figurative · مجازthe desert led the people, or party, far away, because of its great extentجَمَحَتِ المَفَازَةُ بِالقَوْمِ
1.1.5figurative · مجازthe object of his desire baffled his efforts to attain itجَمَحَ بِهِ مُرَادُهُ
Qur’ānic occurrences Form 1
9:57
لَوْ يَجِدُونَ مَلْجَـًٔا أَوْ مَغَـٰرَٰتٍ أَوْ مُدَّخَلًا لَّوَلَّوْا۟ إِلَيْهِ وَهُمْ يَجْمَحُونَ

If they could find a place to flee to, or caves, or a place of concealment, they would turn straightaway thereto, with an obstinate rush.

Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.

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, aor. جَمَحَ , inf. n. جِمَاحٌ (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.) and جُمُوحٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and جَمْحٌ , (K,) or this last has not been heard, (Mgh,) He (a horse) overcame his rider, or gained the mastery over him, (S, L, K,) running away with him: (L:) or broke loose, or ran away, (Msb,) and went at random, without any certain aim, so as not to be turned by anything: (Mgh, Msb:) or ran so as to have the mastery over his rider: (Ham p. 568:) and جَمَحَ بِرَاكِبِهِ (A, Mgh, Msb) he overcame his rider, (A, Mgh,) and ran away so that he could not govern him: (A:) or became refractory, so that he overcame his rider: (Msb:) and sometimes, (Msb,) this verb also signifies he was quick, or swift, (A, Msb,) and brisk, lively, or sprightly; denoting in this case a quality that is approved; whereas in the senses before explained it denotes a quality that is disapproved: but in the last sense it is obsolete [unless tropically applied to a man]. (Msb.) [Hence,] He (said of anything [i. e. of a man or any animal]) went at random, or heedlessly, without consideration or certain aim, not obeying a guide to the right course. (TA.) And He (said of a man, S, L) hastened, or went quickly, (S, L, K,) إِلَيْهِ to him, or it, so that his course was not turned for anything. (L, TA.) وَهُمْ يَجْمَحُونَ , in the Kur [ix. 57], means They hastening, or going quickly: (AO, S, L:) or hastening so that nothing turns them back, like the horse that is termed جَمُوح : (Bd, Jel:) or running like horses that overcome their riders and run away so as to be ungovernable by them. (A.) And جَمَحَ فِى إِثْرِهِ , occurring in a trad., He hastened after him, or it, so that nothing turned him back. (L.) جَمَحَتِ المَرْأَةُ The woman went forth from the place where she used to pass the night, in anger, without the permission of her husband. (Msb.) And جَمَحَتْ مِنْ زَوْجِهَا , so in the S and L &c., but in the K جَمَحَتْ زَوْجَهَا , [which is evidently a mistake,] (TA,) She went forth from the house, or tent, of her husband, to her own family, before he divorced her; (S, L, K;) inf. n. جِمَاحٌ . (L, TA.) And جَمَحَتْ إِلَى أَهْلِهَا She went to her family without the permission of her husband. (A.) جَمَحَتِ السَّفِينَةُ The ship quitted her course, (A, TA,) and became ungovernable by the sailors; inf. n. جُمُوحٌ . (TA.) جَمَحَتِ المَفَازَةُ بِالقَوْمِ The desert led the people, or party, far away, by reason of its great extent. (A, TA.) جَمَحَ بِهِ مُرَادُهُ The object of his desire baffled his efforts to attain it. (A, TA.)

Derived nouns 4

Nounجَمْحَةُ1 sense

Core sense — a trick of overcoming the rider and running away with himgenerated

1[a beast submissive, or gentle: there is not in her a trick of overcoming the rider and running away with him, nor a trick of kicking]دَابَّةٌ سَمْحَةٌ مَا بِهَا جَمْحَةٌ وَ لَا رَمْحَةٌ

[A trick of overcoming the rider, and running away with him.]

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[A trick of overcoming the rider, and running away with him]. You say, دَابَّةٌ سَمْحَةٌ مَا بِهَا جَمْحَةٌ وَ لَا رَمْحَةٌ [A beast submissive, or easy, or gentle: there is not in her a trick of overcoming the rider, and running away with him, nor a trick of kicking]. (A.)
Nounجَمُوحٌ3 senses · 1 main

Core sense — a horse that runs away with his rider; quick and livelygenerated

1a horse that overcomes his rider and runs away with himجَامِحٌ

Or one that is unruly, and runs away so that his rider cannot govern him, or goes away at random, without any certain aim, so as not to be turned by anything; or one that will not bend his head.

Both adjectives apply alike to the horse and the mare.

The first of the two has two meanings. One is a fault for which the horse may be returned: that he habitually takes his own way, so that his rider cannot turn him from it, or as explained above. The other is quick, or swift, and brisk, lively, and sprightly, which is not a fault for which he may be returned.

1.1figurative · مجاز — inferredmen routed, defeated, or put to flight, in warجُمَّاحٌ

Of anything, that is, of a man or any animal, that goes at random, or heedlessly, without consideration or certain aim, not obeying a guide to the right course.

Of the first adjective, or of each of the two: a man who follows his own natural desire, without consideration, not obeying a guide to the right course of conduct, so that he cannot be turned back.

[This is the plural of جَامِحٌ according to analogy.]

1.2figurative · مجاز — inferred[a desert that leads one far away, because of its great extent]مَفَازَةٌ جَمُوحٌ

Likened to a horse that is termed جَمُوح.

Occurs in a poem of Dhu-r-Rummeh; mentioned under نحب.

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(T, S, A, Mgh, L, Msb, K) and جَامِحٌ (Mgh, Msb) A horse that overcomes his rider, or gains the mastery over him, (S, A, Mgh, L, Msb, K,) being refractory, (Msb,) and runs away with him, (L,) or runs away so that his rider cannot govern him, (A,) or goes away at random, without any certain aim, so as not to be turned by anything: (Mgh:) or that will not bend his head: (TA:) the former epithet, (T, Mgh, TA,) and the latter, (Mgh, Msb,) applied alike to the horse and the mare: (T, Mgh, Msb, TA:) and the former has two meanings; one denoting what is a fault, for which the horse may be returned; (T, Mgh, TA;) i. e., that habitually takes his own way, so that his rider cannot turn him from it; (T, TA;) or as explained before; (Mgh;) the other meaning being quick, or swift, and brisk, lively, and sprightly; and this does not imply a fault (T, Mgh, TA) for which he may be returned. (T, TA.) [Hence,] Anything [i. e. a man or any animal] that goes at random, or heedlessly, without consideration or certain aim, not obeying a guide to the right course: (TA:) and the former epithet, (Msb, K,) or each of the two, (S, * A,) a man who follows his own natural desire, without consideration, not obeying a guide to the right course of conduct, (S, A, Msb, K,) so that he cannot be turned back. (S, K.) And جُمَّاحٌ [is pl. of جَامِحٌ , accord. to analogy, and] signifies Men routed, defeated, or put to flight, in war. (IAar, K.) مَفَازَةٌ جَمُوحٌ [A desert that leads one far away, by reason of its great extent: see 1, last sentence but one: likened to a horse that is termed جَمُوح ]: occurring in a poem of Dhu-r-Rummeh. (TA in art. نحب .)
Nounجُمَّاحٌ3 senses

Core sense — a small headless arrow used by boys; a plant with soft spike-like tipsgenerated

1a boy's arrowجُبَّاحٌ

An arrow, or a small arrow, without an iron point, having a round head, with which a boy learns the art of shooting.

Or one that boys play with, putting a date or some clay on its head so that it may not wound.

Or it also means a date put upon the head of a piece of wood, with which boys play. Birds are shot at with it and knocked down without being killed, so that the shooter takes them.

On its end he puts a lump of chewed dates the size of the عِفَاض [here meaning stopper] of a bottle, so that the end may go more directly and be smooth; without feathers, and sometimes without a notch.

2

Also that kind of plant at whose extremities come out what resemble ears of wheat, soft, like foxes' tails, or resembling the heads of the حَلِىّ and the صِلِّيَان and the like.

A collective noun; ism waḥda with ة; plural جَمَامِيحُ, and in poetry جَمَامِحُ, the latter allowable only where necessity requires it.

3

See also جَمُوحٌ.

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An arrow, (S, K,) or a small arrow, (L,) without an iron point, having a round head, with which the art of shooting is learned (S, L, K) by a boy: (S, L:) or one with which boys play, putting upon its head a date or some clay, in order that it may not wound: (L:) or it signifies also a date put upon the head of a piece of wood, with which boys play: (K:) birds are shot at with it, and knocked down, without being killed, so that the shooter takes them: and it is also called جُبَّاحٌ : (T, TA:) or a boy's arrow, upon the end of which he puts a lump of chewed dates of the size of the عِفَاض [here meaning stopper] of a bottle, in order that it (the end) may go more directly, and be smooth; without feathers, and sometimes without a notch. (AHn, L.) Also That [kind of plant] at the extremities of which come forth what resemble ears of wheat, soft, (L, K,) like foxes' tails, or (L) resembling the heads of the حَلِىّ and the صِلِّيَان and the like: (L, K:) a coll. gen. n.: n. un. with ة : (L:) pl. جَمَامِيحُ ; and in poetry جَمَامِحُ ; (L, K;) the latter allowable only in cases of necessity. (L.) See also جَمُوحٌ .
Nounجَامِحٌ1 sense

Core sense — running away with the rider, ungovernablegenerated

1

See جَمُوحٌ, in two places.

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: see جَمُوحٌ , in two places.