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ضهب

Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

The root ضهب (ḍhb) primarily relates to the application of heat, particularly to objects like weapons or food. It encompasses actions like heating, roasting, and charring, as well as descriptions of the resulting state or the places where such actions occur.

Derived headwords

تضهيبverb
  1. 1.
    to heatboth

    To expose to fire, especially for shaping or tempering, as with a bow or spear.

وضهبهverb
  1. 1.
    to scorchboth

    To heat or scorch something, altering its appearance.

ضهبverb
  1. 1.
    to roastboth

    To roast meat on heated stones or over a fire, often without fully cooking it.

  2. 2.
    to roast lightlyclassical

    To roast meat over a fire but not to the point of being well-done.

مضهبadjective
  1. 1.
    lightly roastedboth

    Meat that has been roasted over a fire but is not fully cooked.

  2. 2.
    scorchedboth

    Affected by heat or scorching.

الضهباءnoun
  1. 1.
    heated bowclassical

    A bow that has been worked or shaped using fire.

الضبحاءnoun
  1. 1.
    heated bowclassical

    Similar to الضهباء, referring to a bow worked with fire.

هضبverb
  1. 1.
    to be abundantclassical

    To be numerous or abundant; to increase greatly.

  2. 2.
    to hastenclassical

    To move quickly or with haste.

ضبهبواverb
  1. 1.
    to be abundantclassical

    To be numerous or abundant; to increase greatly (used in plural past tense).

  2. 2.
    to hastenclassical

    To move quickly or with haste (used in plural past tense).

هلبواverb
  1. 1.
    to be abundantclassical

    To be numerous or abundant; to increase greatly (used in plural past tense, synonymous with هضبوا).

  2. 2.
    to hastenclassical

    To move quickly or with haste (used in plural past tense, synonymous with هضبوا).

ألبواverb
  1. 1.
    to be abundantclassical

    To be numerous or abundant; to increase greatly (used in plural past tense, synonymous with هضبوا).

  2. 2.
    to hastenclassical

    To move quickly or with haste (used in plural past tense, synonymous with هضبوا).

حطبواverb
  1. 1.
    to be abundantclassical

    To be numerous or abundant; to increase greatly (used in plural past tense, synonymous with هضبوا).

  2. 2.
    to hastenclassical

    To move quickly or with haste (used in plural past tense, synonymous with هضبوا).

الضيهبnoun
  1. 1.
    hot placeclassical

    Any cliff, mound, or mountain area that becomes intensely hot from the sun, to the point where meat could be cooked on it.

الصيهبnoun
  1. 1.
    intensely hot dayclassical

    A day of extreme heat.

صياهبnoun
  1. 1.
    hot placesclassical

    Plural of صيهب, referring to intensely hot days or places.

Parallel reading

تضهيب القوس والرمح: عرضهما على النار عند التثقيف.
To heat the bow and spear: to expose them to fire during tempering.
وضهبه بالنار: لوحه وغيره.
To scorch it with fire: to discolor it and change it.
ضهب اللحم: شواه على حجارة محماة، فهو مضهب.
To roast meat: to grill it on heated stones, and it is called 'maḍhb'.
وقيل: ضهبه شواه ولم يبالغ في نضجه.
And it was said: to roast it, to grill it without overdoing its cooking.
لحم مضهب مشوي على النار ولم ينضج
lightly roasted meat, grilled over fire but not fully cooked
إذا نحن قمنا عن شواء مضهب
when we rise from a lightly roasted grill
إذا أدخلت اللحم النار، ولم تبالغ في نضجه، قلت: ضهبته فهو مضهب.
If you put meat to the fire and do not overcook it, you say: 'I have lightly roasted it, and it is maḍhb'.
اللحم المضهب الذي قد شوي على جمر محمى.
The maḍhb meat is that which has been grilled over hot embers.
الضهباء القوس التي عملت فيها النار، والضبحاء مثلها.
Al-ḍahbā' is the bow in which fire has been used, and al-ḍabḥā' is similar.
هضب القوم، وضهبوا، وهلبوا، وألبوا، وحطبوا: كله الإكثار والإسراع.
The people increased, and they increased, and they increased, and they increased, and they increased: all of it means abundance and speed.
والضيهب: كل قف أو حزن أو موضع من الجبل، تحمى عليه الشمس حتى ينشوي عليه اللحم
And al-ḍayhab: every cliff, mound, or place in the mountain that is heated by the sun until meat can be roasted on it.
وغر تجيش قدوره بضياهب
and strange are the bubbling pots with hot places.
الذي أراد الليث إنما هو الصيهب، بالصاد، وكذلك هو في البيت: [تجيش قدوره بصياهب]
What Al-Layth intended is indeed al-ṣayhab, with a ṣād, and likewise it is in the verse: [its pots bubble with intense heat].
جمع الصيهب، وهو اليوم الشديد الحر؛
The plural of al-ṣayhab, which is a day of intense heat;