Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

كَرُمَ, inf. n. كَرَمٌ, It (a thing) was, or became, highly esteemed or prized or valued; excellent, precious, valuable, or rare: (Mṣb:) followed by عَلَيْهِ: see 1 in art. فجع.

كَرُمَتْ أَرْضُهُ His land yielded increase of its seed-produce, (ISh, Ḳ,) and its soil became good, (ISh,) being manured; (ISh, Ḳ;) [or it was, or became, generous, or good; i. e., productive, or fertile].

كَرُمْتُ عَلَيْهِ, (Ṣ, Ḳ, art. عز,) I exceeded him in generosity, or nobleness. (TḲ, voce عَزٌّ.)

كَرَّمَهُ عَلَىَّ [He honoured him above me]. (Ḳur, xvii. 64).

كَرَّمَهُ عَنْ كَذَا [He preserved him from such a thing]: see an ex. in a verse cited in art. عل (conj. 3): and see, here, 4 and 5.

كَرَّمَ He highly regarded a horse or the like.

See تَكْرِمَةٌ.

أَكْرَمَهُ He treated him with honour, or courtesy.

أَكْرَمَ, andاِسْتَكْرَمَ↓, He found a generous horse (فَرَسًا كَرِيمًا). (TA in art. ربط.) See رَبَطَ.

أَكْرَمْتُ عَنْهُ عِرْضِى I preserved myself from it. (Ṣ in art. عرض. See also 2.)

تَكَرَّمَ عَنْهُ, andتَكَارَمَ↓, He shunned it; avoided it; kept, or removed, himself far from it; or preserved himself from it; (Ḳ;) for in stance, from foul speech. (TA in art. دقع.)

تَكَرَّمَ He affected, or constrained himself, to be generous. (Ṣ.)

اِسْتَكْرَمَ الشَّىْءَ: see 10 in art. فره.

See also 4.

إِبْنُ الكَرْمِ The قِطْف [i. e. grape, or bunch of grapes]. (T in art. بنى.)

كَرَمٌ in a horse, &c., generous quality. See حَسَبٌ; and see كَرِيمٌ, and مَكْرُمَةٌ, and شَرِيفٌ.

ذُو الجَلَالِ وَالإِكْرَامِ (Ḳur, lv. 27) Possessed of majesty, or greatness, and bounty: (Jel:) or, of absolute independence and universal bounty. (Bḍ.)

الكُرْكُمُ الصَّغِيرُ: see العُرُوقُ الصُّفْرُ.

كَرِيمٌ Generous; liberal; honourable: noble; high-born; contr. of لَئِيمٌ. (Ḳ, &c.)

[A generous, a noble, a high-bred, a well-born, or an excellent, horse, &c.; of generous, high, or good, breed or quality.]

A thing highly esteemed or prized or valued; excellent, precious, valuable, or rare. (Mṣb.)

[أَرْضٌ كَرِيمَةٌ Productive land. See كَرُمَتْ أَرْضُهُ.]

بَعِيرٌ كَرِيمٌ عَلَى أَهْلِهِ [A camel held in high estimation by his owner]. (TA in art. دفع.)

[وَجْهُ ٱللّٰهِ الكَرِيمُ means The glorious face of God: see an ex. voce سُبْحَةٌ.]

كَراَئِمُ المَالِ (TA) or الأَمْوَالِ (Mgh, Mṣb) Such as are held in high estimation, precious, or excellent, of cattle or other possessions; (Mgh, Mṣb, TA;) the choice, or best, thereof. (Mgh, Mṣb.)

حُبًّا وَكَرَامَةٌ, see حُبٌّ.

لَا وَلَا كَرَامَةً No; nor a jar-cover: i. e., No: (I will not give thee, or I will not do, what thou requirest,) nor anything else. See حُبٌّ; and see تَكْرِمَة.

كَراَمَةٌ, the kind of miracle so called: pl. كَرَامَاتٌ; like the term χαρίσματα as used by St. Paul in 1 Cor. xii. 9: it may be well rendered thaumaturgy: and صاَحِبُ كَراَمَاتٍ a thaumaturgus, or thaumaturgist: see مُعْجِزَهٌ, and قَرَاسَةٌ.

أَكْرَمُ in the sense of كَرِيمٌ, as in أَكْرَمُهُمْ أَبًا: see بَيَاضٌ.

تَكْرِمَةٌ syn. with تَكْرِيمٌ; (Mgh;) subst. from كَرَّمْتُهُ; as alsoكَرَامَةٌ↓. (Mṣb.)

مَكْرَمَةٌ A means. or cause, of attaining honour. (Mgh, Mṣb.)

مَكْرُمٌ: see أَلُوكٌ and يُسْرٌ.

مَكْرُمَةٌ A generous, or honourable, quality or action. (Mṣb, &c.)

عَلِىَ فِى المَكَارِمِ [He became eminent in generous, or honourable, actions or practices or qualities or dispositions]. (Mṣb in art. علو.)

مَكَارِمُ may often be rendered Excellencies.

أَرْضٌ مَكْرُمَةٌ andكَرَمٌ↓ ‡ Generous, good, land: (Ḳ, TA:) [good and fertile land:] or dunged and tilled land. (TA.) And أَرْضٌ مَكْرُمَةٌ لِلنَّبَاثِ ‡ Land producing good herbage or plants. (Ṣ, TA. [In some copies of the Ṣ, good for herbage or plants.])