Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry قحم
1 قحم نَفْسَهُ فِى الأُمُورِ and فيها ↓ تقحمّ and ↓ اقتحم He entered into affairs without consideration. (A.) 5 تَقَحَّمَ He experienced dearth, drought, or sterility. See an ex. voce تَبِعَةٌ.
تَقَحَّمَ فِى
الأَمْرِ بِلاَ رَوِيَّةٍ [He plunged, or rushed, into the affair without consideration]. (K, * TA in art. علط.) See 1.
تَقَحَّمَ: see تَدَلَّثَ.
8 إِقْتَحَمَ
. See 1.
Said of a young camel: see voce بُلَعٌ.
اِقْتَحَمَ الغَمَراَتِ: see 1 in art. خوض. And اقتحم العَقَبَةَ: see عَقَبَةٌ.
قَحْمَةٌ
, like قَحْبَةٌ, An old woman. See قَحْبٌ.
مُقْحَمٌ Redundant; pleonastic; foisted in: applied to a word and to a letter.
حَرْفٌ مَقْحَمَةٌ
A letter inserted without reason.
مُقْحَمَةٌ is also applied in like manner to a word. [In a copy of the S, in art. بهت, I find it written مُقْحِمَةٌ]: i. q. زَائِدَةٌ. (TA in art. بهت.)
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.
