Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry كم
كَمْ
: see its syn. كَأَىٍّ or كَأَيِّنْ voce أَىٌّ.
As an interrogative with the specification suppressed, What number? How many? and, as in an ex. voce سِقْىٌ, virtually meaning How much? and so in an ex. voce مَسَافَةٌ and voce شَبْرٌ. Also How long? as in the Kur, ii. 161, &c.; a noun signifying a period of time being understood: see also an ex. voce عَسَفَ, and voce فَرَشَ.
كَمٌّ and كَمٌ are both app. right: see قَدْ.
كِمٌّ The calyx of a flower. (K, &c.)
كِمٌّ The envelope [or spathe] of the طَلْع [or spadix of a palm-tree]: and the covering [or calyx] of flowers or blossoms; as also ↓ كِمَامَةٌ. (S, Msb, K.) كُمَّةٌ A قَلَنْسُوَة: (TA in art. بطح:) or a round قلنسوة: (S, K:) pl. كِمَامٌ. (K, * TA in art. بطح.) كِمَامَةٌ
: see كِمٌّ.
كَمِّيَّةٌ Quantum, or quantity, as answering to “ how many. ”
مُكَمَّمٌ Covered over, or concealed (مَسْتُور). (S, art. خصب.) See بُرْأَة.
كَمْكَامٌ The cancamum-tree: see بُطْمٌ and ضِرْوٌ.
قمفطش كَمَا فِيْطُوس
χαμαίπιτυς, the ground-pine]: see عَرْصَفٌ.
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.
