فَحْمَةٌ
Root: فحم
Full Definition
فَحْمَةٌ
n. un. of فَحْمٌ, q. v. [Hence] one says of a black woman with a red خِمَار [or muffler], كَأَنَّهَا
فَحْمَةٌ فِى رَأْسِهَا نَارٌ [As though she were a piece of charcoal with fire upon its head].
2 [And hence,] فَحْمَةُ اللَّيْلِ The first part of the night: or the blackness of the night: or the most intense blackness of the night: or the blackness of the first part of the night: or the most intensely black part of the night: or the part from the setting of the sun to [the time of] the sleeping of mankind: so called because of its heat [as well as its darkness]; for the first part of the night is hotter than its last part: it is peculiarly in the صَيْف [meaning summer]; not in the winter: and فَحْمَةُ العِشَآءِ signifies the darkness of the عشاء [i. e. of the nightfall]: or the intenseness of the blackness of the night, and its darkness; which is in its first part: or the time next after the عشاء: the pl. is فِحَامٌ and فُحُومٌ: or the latter of these may mean darkness; as though it were an Verbal.Noun of فَحُمَ. فَحْمَةُ السَّحَرِ means The time of the سَحَر [or last part of the night]. And فَحْمَةُ بْنُ جُمَيْرٍ is [a proper name of] The middle of the night.
2 [And hence,] فَحْمَةُ اللَّيْلِ The first part of the night: or the blackness of the night: or the most intense blackness of the night: or the blackness of the first part of the night: or the most intensely black part of the night: or the part from the setting of the sun to [the time of] the sleeping of mankind: so called because of its heat [as well as its darkness]; for the first part of the night is hotter than its last part: it is peculiarly in the صَيْف [meaning summer]; not in the winter: and فَحْمَةُ العِشَآءِ signifies the darkness of the عشاء [i. e. of the nightfall]: or the intenseness of the blackness of the night, and its darkness; which is in its first part: or the time next after the عشاء: the pl. is فِحَامٌ and فُحُومٌ: or the latter of these may mean darkness; as though it were an Verbal.Noun of فَحُمَ. فَحْمَةُ السَّحَرِ means The time of the سَحَر [or last part of the night]. And فَحْمَةُ بْنُ جُمَيْرٍ is [a proper name of] The middle of the night.
Lane's Lexicon
+
Hans Wehr
+
Mufradat
Three dictionaries. One search.
"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."
47,000+ classical entries
Root-based navigation
Full text search
Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now
Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more