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طحرب
Root entry · 7 derived lemmasThe root طحرب (ṭaḥrab) primarily relates to pieces of cloth, rags, or garments, often used in negative contexts to denote a lack of clothing. It also extends to meanings of cloud fragments, light rain, and in some instances, refers to wind or ground debris.
Derived headwords
طَحْرَبَةnoun
- 1.piece of clothboth
A piece of rag or cloth, often used to refer to a garment or clothing.
- 2.fragment of cloudclassical
A small piece or patch of cloud, or a smear of mist.
طَحْرَبَةnoun
- 1.fartclassical
A flatulence or a fart.
طَحْرَبَةnoun
- 1.patch of cloudclassical
A patch or smear of cloud, similar to a 'ṭaḥraba'.
طَحْرَمَةnoun
- 1.patch of cloudclassical
A patch or smear of cloud, originating from 'ṭaḥraba'.
طَحْرَبnoun
- 1.debrisclassical
The light, dry debris or chaff, or the dust of the earth.
طَحْرَبverb
- 1.to fillclassical
To fill a waterskin.
طَحْرَبَverb
- 1.to fleeclassical
To run away or flee.
Parallel reading
ما على فلان طحربة، بضم الطاء والراء: يعني من اللباس
So-and-so has no ṭaḥraba, with damma on the ṭāʾ and rāʾ: meaning, of clothing.
طحربة، بفتح الطاء وكسر الراء، وطحربة وطحربة أي قطعة من خرقة
Ṭaḥraba, with fatḥa on the ṭāʾ and kasra on the rāʾ, and ṭaḥraba and ṭaḥraba, meaning a piece of rag.
وسمعت طحربة وطحمرة، وكلها لغات
And I heard ṭaḥraba and ṭaḥmara, and all of them are variants.
تدنو الشمس من رؤوس الناس، وليس على أحد منهم طحربة ، بضم الطاء والراء، وكسرهما، وبالحاء والخاء: اللباس، وقيل: الخرقة، وأكثر ما يستعمل في النفي
The sun will draw near to the heads of people, and no one will have on them a ṭaḥraba, with damma on the ṭāʾ and rāʾ, and their kasra, and with ḥāʾ and khāʾ: clothing, and it is said: a rag, and it is most often used in negation.
وما في السماء طحربة أي قطعة من السحاب
And there is no ṭaḥraba in the sky, meaning a piece of cloud.
وقيل: لطخة غيم
And it is said: a smear of cloud.
والطحربة الطحربة الفسوة؛ قال: وحاص منا فرقا وطحربا
And the ṭaḥraba is the fart; he said: And he turned away from us in fear and farted.
وما عليه طحرمة، كطحربة أي لطخ من غيم
And he has no ṭaḥrama on him, like a ṭaḥraba, meaning a smear of cloud.
وأصلها طحربة؛ وقال نصيب: سرى في سواد الليل، ينزل خلفه ... مواكف لم يعكف عليهن طحرب
And its origin is ṭaḥraba; and Naṣīb said: He traveled in the blackness of the night, descending behind them... encampments that no one stayed at, [covered in] ṭaḥrab.
قال: والطحرب هاهنا: الغثاء من الجفيف، وواله الأرض
He said: And ṭaḥrab here means: the light debris from dry material, and the dust of the earth.
وطحرب القربة: ملأها
And he ṭaḥraba the waterskin: he filled it.
وطحرب إذا عدا فارا
And he ṭaḥraba when he ran away fleeing.