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قَمّ
to sweep (up) /ˈqam.ma/
verbA2#770 most common
Also: to gather up, collect (refuse), to clear away, sweep clean, to devour to the ground (of grazing animals or locusts)
Example sentences
قَمَّ الْوَلَدُ الْغُرْفَةَ.
The boy swept the room.
قَمَّتِ الْأُمُّ الْمَطْبَخَ فِي الصَّبَاحِ.
The mother swept the kitchen in the morning.
يَقُمُّ الْعَامِلُ الْفِنَاءَ كُلَّ صَبَاحٍ.
The worker sweeps the courtyard every morning.
قُمَّ الْغُبَارَ عَنِ الْأَرْضِ قَبْلَ وُصُولِ الضُّيُوفِ.
Sweep the dust off the floor before the guests arrive.
بَعْدَ أَنْ غَادَرَ الضُّيُوفُ، قَمَمْنَا الْقَاعَةَ مِنْ فُتَاتِ الطَّعَامِ.
After the guests left, we swept the food crumbs from the hall.
لَمْ يَدَعِ الْجَرَادُ شَيْئًا أَخْضَرَ إِلَّا قَمَّهُ قَمًّا.
The locusts left nothing green without devouring it utterly.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَقُمُّ | قَمَمْتُ | سَأَقُمُّ |
| 2sg | تَقُمُّ | قَمَمْتَ | سَتَقُمُّ |
| 3sg | يَقُمُّ | قَمَّ | سَيَقُمُّ |
| 1pl | نَقُمُّ | قَمَمْنَا | سَنَقُمُّ |
| 2pl | تَقُمُّونَ | قَمَمْتُمْ | سَتَقُمُّونَ |
| 3pl | يَقُمُّونَ | قَمُّوا | سَيَقُمُّونَ |
Word family
قُمَامَةrubbish, garbage
مِقَمَّةbroom
قَمّsweeping (verbal noun)قَامّsweeper, one who sweeps
مَقْمُومswept, cleared away
Etymology
Qamma comes from the Semitic root q-m-m, whose core sense is sweeping and gathering up refuse. The same root yields qumāma, the everyday word for garbage, and miqamma, a broom. In classical usage the verb also described animals that grazed a field down to bare earth.
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