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سبسب

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes desolate, barren, and vast lands, often implying emptiness and remoteness. It also extends to meanings related to sending, cutting off ties, and harsh speech, as well as specific types of trees and a Christian festival.

Derived headwords

السَّبَاسِبُnoun
  1. 1.
    Trees for arrowsclassical

    A type of tree from which arrows are made.

  2. 2.
    Desolate landsboth

    Vast, barren, and desolate lands; deserts or wildernesses.

  3. 3.
    Christian festivalclassical

    A Christian festival, specifically Palm Sunday (also called the Day of the Palms).

السَّبْسَبُnoun
  1. 1.
    Trees for arrowsclassical

    A type of tree from which arrows are made.

  2. 2.
    Desolate landboth

    A barren, desolate, and distant land, which can be flat or uneven, rough or smooth, without water or inhabitants.

  3. 3.
    Desolate land (variant)both

    A barren and desolate land.

سَبْسَبَverb
  1. 1.
    To send urineclassical

    To release or send forth urine.

  2. 2.
    To travel easilyclassical

    To travel at an easy or moderate pace.

  3. 3.
    To sever tiesclassical

    To cut off one's kinship ties.

  4. 4.
    To curse harshlyclassical

    To curse or revile someone with ugly speech.

السَّبْسَابُnoun
  1. 1.
    Trees for arrows (variant)classical

    A variant form or a poetic extension of 'as-sabasib' referring to trees used for making arrows.

البَسَابِسُnoun
  1. 1.
    Desertsclassical

    Vast, barren, and desolate lands; deserts.

  2. 2.
    Falsehoodsclassical

    Idle talk, nonsense, or falsehoods.

البَسْبَسُnoun
  1. 1.
    Desertclassical

    A barren and desolate land.

السَّيْسَبَانُnoun
  1. 1.
    Treeclassical

    A type of tree that grows from a seed, grows tall, and does not survive the winter. It has attractive leaves and produces small fruit.

السَّيْسَبَىnoun
  1. 1.
    Tree (variant)classical

    A variant name for the 'as-sayasban' tree, used for its beauty.

السَّيْسَبُnoun
  1. 1.
    Tree (variant)classical

    A variant name for the 'as-sayasban' tree, often associated with its wood.

Parallel reading

ظل يصاديها، دوين المشرب، ... لاط بصفراء، كتوم المذهب، وكل جشء من فروع السبسب أراد لاطئا، فأبدل من الهمز ياء، وجعلها من باب قاض، للضرورة.
He shaded it, near the watering place, ... he clung to a yellow one, concealing his path, and for every part of the branches of the sabasib, he intended a clinging thing, so he substituted a ya for the hamza, making it like 'qadi', out of necessity.
وراح كعصا السبساب
And he went like the staff of the sabasab (tree).
فبينا أنا أجول سبسبها
And while I was wandering its desolate land.
السبسب: القفر والمفازة.
As-sabasib: the barren land and the desert.
ويروى بسبسها، قال: وهما بمعنى.
And it is narrated as 'busbusaha', and they mean the same thing.
السبسب الأرض المستوية البعيدة.
As-sabasib: the distant, flat land.
السبسب الأرض الجدبة.
As-sabasib: the barren land.
سبسب إذا سار سيرا لينا.
Sabasaba: when he traveled at an easy pace.
سبسب إذا قطع رحمه.
Sabasaba: when he cut off his kinship ties.
سبسب إذا شتم شتما قبيحا.
Sabasaba: when he cursed with ugly speech.
إن الله تعالى أبدلكم بيوم السباسب، يوم العيد.
Indeed, Allah the Almighty has replaced for you the Day of Sabasib with the Day of Eid.
رقاق النعال، طيب حجزاتهم، ... يحيون بالريحان، يوم السباسب
With thin sandals, their loins perfumed, ... they celebrate with basil on the Day of Sabasib.
له ورق نحو ورق الدفلى، حسن، والناس يزرعونه في البساتين، يريدون حسنه.
It has leaves like the leaves of oleander, beautiful, and people plant it in gardens for its beauty.
كأن صوت رألها، إذا جفل، ... ضرب الرياح سيسبانا قد ذبل
Like the sound of its young ones, when startled, ... the striking of the winds on withered sayasban.
طلق وعتق مثل عود السيسب
Divorced and freed, like the wood of as-sayasib.
يهتز متناها، إذا ما اضطربا، ... كهز نشوان قضيب السيسبى
Its extremities sway when it moves, ... like the swaying of a drunkard with a branch of as-sayasba.