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كهب

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes a color, specifically a dusty or grayish hue, often associated with camels. It can also refer to a general dullness or a color that is not pure.

Derived headwords

الكهبةnoun
  1. 1.
    Dusty grayish colorboth

    A dusty hue mixed with blackness, particularly in the colors of camels. It is a color not pure in redness, tending towards dustiness.

  2. 2.
    Dullnessclassical

    Darkness or a general lack of vibrancy in color.

أكهبadjective
  1. 1.
    Dusty grayishboth

    Describing a camel that has the dusty grayish color (al-kahbah).

كهبverb
  1. 1.
    To be dusty grayishboth

    To possess the dusty grayish color, referring to animals or other things.

كهباnoun
  1. 1.
    Dusty grayish colorboth

    The masdar (verbal noun) indicating the act or state of being dusty grayish.

كهبةnoun
  1. 1.
    Dusty grayish colorboth

    The masdar (verbal noun) indicating the act or state of being dusty grayish.

أكهبadjective
  1. 1.
    Dusty grayishboth

    An active participle used as an adjective, describing something that has the dusty grayish color.

كاهبadjective
  1. 1.
    Dusty grayishclassical

    An alternative form of the active participle, meaning dusty grayish.

كهباءadjective
  1. 1.
    Dusty grayish (female)both

    Feminine form of the adjective describing a female animal, particularly a camel, with the dusty grayish color.

Parallel reading

الكهبة: غبرة مشربة سوادا في ألوان الإبل
Al-kahbah: A dusty hue mixed with blackness in the colors of camels.
زاد الأزهري: خاصة
Al-Azharī added: specifically.
بعير أكهب: بين الكهب
An ak-hab camel: between the kahb (dusty grayish ones).
وناقة كهباء
And a kah-ba' camel (female).
الكهبة لون مثل القهبة
Al-kahbah is a color like al-quhbah.
الكهبة لون ليس بخالص في الحمرة، وهو في الحمرة خاصة
Al-kahbah is a color not pure in redness, and it is specifically in redness.
الكهبة لون إلى الغبرة ما هو، فلم يخص شيئا دون شيء
Al-kahbah is a color tending towards dustiness, and it does not specify one thing over another.
لم أسمع الكهبة في ألوان الإبل، لغير الليث؛ قال: ولعله يستعمل في ألوان الثياب
I have not heard al-kahbah used for the colors of camels, except from Al-Layth; he said: and perhaps it is used for the colors of garments.
وقيل الكهب لون الجاموس
And it was said that al-kahb is the color of the buffalo.
والكهبة: الدهمة
And al-kahbah: darkness.
والفعل من كل ذلك كهب وكهب كهبا وكهبة، فهو أكهب، وقد قيل: كاهب
And the verb from all of that is kahaba and kahiba kahaban and kahbah, so he is ak-hab, and it has been said: kahib.
جنح على باق سحيق، كأنه ... إهاب ابن آوى كاهب اللون أطحله
It veered onto a distant remnant, as if it were... the skin of a jackal, kahib in color, its belly exposed.
ويروى: أكهب
And it is narrated: ak-hab.