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طرطب

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes sounds made with the lips, particularly whistling or calling, often associated with animals like sheep and goats. It also extends to describe physical characteristics like large, pendulous breasts or udders, and a general sense of looseness or instability.

Derived headwords

طَرطَبَverb
  1. 1.
    to whistleboth

    To make a whistling sound with the lips, often used in the context of calling animals.

  2. 2.
    to callboth

    To call out to an animal, specifically a sheep or goat, using a whistling or clucking sound.

  3. 3.
    to puffclassical

    To puff one's lips, often out of anger or arrogance.

طرطب بالنعجة طرطبة إذا دعاها — He called the ewe with a tarṭaba (whistling sound).
طرطب الحالب بالمعزى إذا دعاها — The milker called the goats with a tarṭaba (whistling sound).
دخلت على أحيول يطرطب شعيرات له — I entered upon a man puffing his lips at his beard.
الطَّرطَبَةnoun
  1. 1.
    whistling soundboth

    The sound of whistling with the lips, especially when calling animals.

  2. 2.
    calling soundboth

    A sound made with the lips to call animals, particularly sheep and goats.

  3. 3.
    agitation of waterclassical

    The sound or sensation of water sloshing within a container or the body.

  4. 4.
    loose breastsclassical

    A description of pendulous or loose breasts.

  5. 5.
    long udderclassical

    A long udder, a term used in Yemen.

والطرطبة: الصفير بالشفتين للضأن — And al-tarṭaba: whistling with the lips for sheep.
الطرطبة: اضطراب الماء في الجوف أو القربة — Al-tarṭaba: the sloshing of water in the belly or a waterskin.
والطرطبة: الطويلة الثديين — And al-tarṭaba: having long breasts.
الطَّرطَبnoun
  1. 1.
    large pendulous breastsclassical

    A large, pendulous, and long breast.

  2. 2.
    woman with large breastsclassical

    A woman characterized by large, pendulous breasts.

يقال: أخزى الله طرطبيها — May God disgrace her (breasts)!
طَرطَبِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    loose-breastedclassical

    Describing a woman with loose or pendulous breasts.

طَرطَبَىnoun
  1. 1.
    large breastclassical

    A single large breast, used when feminizing the term.

طَرطَبَانِيَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    long-uddered goatclassical

    A type of goat characterized by a long udder.

والطرطبانية من المعز: الطويلة شطري الضرع — And al-tarṭabāniyyah among goats: having a long udder.
طَرطَبَverb
  1. 1.
    to make a soundclassical

    To make a sound, specifically the sound of calling donkeys.

قال: الطرطبة دعاء الحمر — He said: Al-tarṭaba is the calling of donkeys.
طَرطَبينnoun
  1. 1.
    derisive termclassical

    A term used derisively for a man, possibly implying foolishness or instability.

يقال للرجل يهزأ منه: دهدرين وطرطبين — It is said to a man who is mocked: Dahdarayn and Tarṭabayn.

Parallel reading

طرطب بالغنم: أشلاها؛ وقيل: الطرطبة بالشفتين
To call sheep: to drive them away; and it was said: al-tarṭaba is with the lips.
فإن استك الكوماء عيب وعورة، ... يطرطب فيها ضاغطان وناكث
If your camel's udder is defective and shameful, ... two pressing and breaking (things) make a sound in it.
وقد خرج من عند الحجاج، فقال: دخلت على أحيول يطرطب شعيرات له.
And he went out from Al-Hajjaj, and said: I entered upon a man puffing his lips at his beard.
يريد: ينفخ بشفتيه في شاربه غيظا وكبرا.
He means: he puffs his lips at his mustache out of anger and arrogance.
والطرطبة: الصفير بالشفتين للضأن.
And al-tarṭaba: whistling with the lips for sheep.
أبو زيد: طرطب بالنعجة طرطبة إذا دعاها.
Abu Zayd: He called the ewe with a tarṭaba when he called her.
طرطب الحالب بالمعزى إذا دعاها.
The milker called the goats with a tarṭaba when he called them.
ابن سيده: الطرطبة صوت الحالب للمعز يسكنها بشفتيه.
Ibn Sidah: Al-tarṭaba is the sound of the milker for goats, which he quiets with his lips.
وقد طرطب بها طرطبة إذا دعاها.
And he called her with a tarṭaba when he called her.
والطرطبة: اضطراب الماء في الجوف أو القربة.
And al-tarṭaba: the sloshing of water in the belly or a waterskin.
والطرطب؛ بالضم وتشديد الباء «1»: الثدي الضخم المسترخي الطويل؛
And al-tarṭab; with damma and shadda on the ba: the large, pendulous, long breast;
يقال: أخزى الله طرطبيها.
It is said: May God disgrace her (breasts).
ومنهم من يقول: طرطبة، للواحدة، فيمن يؤنث الثدي.
And some of them say: tarṭaba, for the singular, when feminizing the breast.
وفي حديث الأشتر في صفة امرأة: أرادها ضمعجا طرطبا.
And in Al-Ashtar's hadith describing a woman: he wanted her to be slender and large-breasted.
الطرطب: العظيمة الثديين.
Al-tarṭab: the one with large breasts.
والبعض يقول للواحدة: طرطبى، فيمن يؤنث الثدي.
And some say for the singular: tarṭabā, when feminizing the breast.
والطرطبة: الطويلة الثديين؛ قال الشاعر: ليست بقتاتة سبهللة، ... ولا بطرطبة لها هلب
And al-tarṭaba: the one with long breasts; the poet said: She is not a small, weakling, ... nor a tarṭaba with hanging parts.
وامرأة طرطبة: مسترخية الثديين؛ وأنشد:
And a tarṭaba woman: with loose breasts; and he recited:
أف لتلك الدلقم الهردبه، ... العنقفير الجلبح الطرطبه
Fie upon that large, clumsy one, ... the broad-necked, loose-breasted one.
والطرطبة: الضرع الطويل، يمانية عن كراع.
And al-tarṭaba: the long udder, a Yemeni term from Kara'.
والطرطبانية من المعز: الطويلة شطري الضرع.
And al-tarṭabāniyyah among goats: having a long udder.
إذا رآني قد أتيت قرطبا، ... وجال في جحاشه وطرطبا
When he saw me approaching Qirṭab, ... he stirred in his belly and made a sound.
قال: الطرطبة دعاء الحمر.
He said: Al-tarṭaba is the calling of donkeys.
أبو زيد في نوادره: يقال للرجل يهزأ منه: دهدرين وطرطبين.
Abu Zayd in his rare sayings: It is said to a man who is mocked: Dahdarayn and Tarṭabayn.