دلب

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns a type of tree, its characteristics, and related concepts. It also extends to a water-lifting device and a term for darkness or a group of people from Sindh.

Derived headwords

الدِّلْبnoun

1.
treeclassical
A type of tree, specifically identified as the 'aythām tree or the pine tree, resembling the latter more closely. It is described as large and wide, without flowers or fruit, with broad, lobed leaves similar to grapevine leaves.

دِلْبَةnoun

1.
single treeclassical
The singular form of the tree 'dilib'.
2.
darknessclassical
Blackness or darkness.

مُدَلَّبَةadjective

1.
land with treesclassical
Land that is abundant with the 'dilib' tree.

الدَّوْلَابnoun

1.
water wheelclassical
A device for lifting water, similar in shape to a noria. It is a Persian loanword.

الدَّوَالِيبnoun

1.
water wheelsclassical
The plural of 'dawlab', referring to water-lifting devices.

الدَّوَالِيnoun

1.
water wheels (variant)classical
A variant form of 'al-dawālīb', possibly derived by changing the 'b' to a 'y' and then eliding, or by omitting the 'b' for poetic reasons.

الدِّيبلnoun

1.
people of Sindhclassical
A group of people from Sindh, considered to be a reversed form of 'al-dilib'.

الدِّيبلانnoun

1.
people of Sindh (dual)classical
The dual form referring to people from Sindh.

Parallel reading

الدلب شجر يعظم ويتسع، ولا نور له ولا ثمر، وهو مفرض الورق واسعه، شبيه بورق الكرم، واحدته دلبة

The dilb is a tree that grows large and wide, having no flowers or fruit, and it has broad, lobed leaves, similar to grapevine leaves; its singular is dilbah.

وأرض مدلبة: ذات دلب

And a 'mudalabbah' land is one with 'dilib' trees.

والدولاب والدولاب، كلاهما: واحد الدواليب

And 'al-dawlab' and 'al-dawlab', both are singulars of 'al-dawālīb'.

على شكل الناعورة، يستقى به الماء، فارسي معرب

Shaped like a noria, by which water is drawn; it is a Persian loanword.

بأيديهم مغارف من حديد، ... أشبهها مقيرة الدوالي ذهب بعضهم إلى أنه أراد مقيرة الدواليب، فأبدل من الباء ياء، ثم أدغم الياء، فصار الدوالي، ثم خفف، فصار دوالي

In their hands are ladles of iron... some interpreted 'maqīrat al-dawālī' as 'maqīrat al-dawālīb', changing the 'b' to a 'y', then eliding the 'y' to become 'al-dawālī', then lightened to 'dawālī'.

ويجوز أن يكون أراد الدواليب، فحذف الباء لضرورة القافية، من غير أن يقلب

And it is permissible that he intended 'al-dawālīb' and omitted the 'b' for the sake of the rhyme, without inversion.

والدلبة: السواد

And 'al-dilbah' means blackness.

والدلب: جنس من سودان السند، وهو مقلوب عن الديبل

And 'al-dilib' is a type of the Sudanese of Sindh, and it is an inversion of 'al-dībil'.

كأن الدارع المشكوك، منها، ... سليب، من رجال الديبلان

As if the chain-armored warrior, from them... is stripped, from the men of al-Dībilān.

شبه سواد الزق بالأسود المشلح من رجال السند

He likened the blackness of the waterskin to a stripped black man from the men of Sindh.

وهي كلمة نبطية

And it is a Nabataean word.