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برث

Root entry · 16 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes soft, easy, and fertile land, often sandy or loamy. It can also refer to a specific type of terrain and, metaphorically, to a guide. Some derived forms relate to confusion or luxurious living.

Derived headwords

البِرْثnoun
  1. 1.
    soft sandy hillclassical

    A hill made of sand, characterized by its soft and yielding soil.

  2. 2.
    easy landclassical

    Land that is easy to traverse, with soft and yielding soil.

  3. 3.
    fertile landclassical

    The easiest and best kind of land, which is fertile and good for growth.

  4. 4.
    soft, level landclassical

    Land that is soft, level, and grows sparse vegetation.

  5. 5.
    white, thin landclassical

    Land that is white, thin, easy, and quick to grow vegetation.

البِرْثnoun
  1. 1.
    soft, fertile groundclassical

    A place with soft, easy ground that grows plants like the star-shaped herb (نجمة) and the thorny plant (نصي).

البِرْثnoun
  1. 1.
    white, soft landclassical

    A soft, white land, often found in mountainous areas.

البِرْثnoun
  1. 1.
    guideclassical

    A skilled and knowledgeable guide.

بِراثnoun
  1. 1.
    soft landsclassical

    Plural of 'birth', referring to soft, easy, and fertile lands.

أَبْراثnoun
  1. 1.
    soft landsclassical

    Another plural form for 'birth', denoting soft, easy, and fertile lands.

بُروثnoun
  1. 1.
    soft landsclassical

    A plural form of 'birth', referring to soft, easy, and fertile lands.

بَرِثَةnoun
  1. 1.
    soft groundclassical

    A soft area of ground, often found between sandy plains and rocky highlands.

بَرِثَةnoun
  1. 1.
    soft landclassical

    A soft, fertile land suitable for cultivation, often located at the foot of mountains.

بَرِثَةnoun
  1. 1.
    soft landclassical

    A singular form referring to a soft, easy land.

بَرارِثnoun
  1. 1.
    soft landsclassical

    A plural form, possibly irregular, for 'birth', referring to soft lands.

بَرْثِيَةnoun
  1. 1.
    soft landclassical

    A singular form, possibly derived from 'birth', referring to a soft land.

بَرِيثَةnoun
  1. 1.
    soft landclassical

    A singular form, possibly derived from 'birth', referring to a soft land.

بَرَتَverb
  1. 1.
    to be confusedclassical

    To be bewildered or confused.

بَرِثَverb
  1. 1.
    to live luxuriouslyclassical

    To live in abundant ease and luxury.

تَبَوَّأَنَّهُverb
  1. 1.
    to settle inclassical

    To take up residence or settle in a place.

Parallel reading

جبل من رمل، سهل التراب، لينه.
A hill of sand, easy of soil, its softness.
والبرث: الأرض السهلة اللينة.
And al-birth: the easy, soft land.
والبرث: أسهل الأرض وأحسنها.
And al-birth: the easiest and best of lands.
إذا جاوزت الرمل فصرت إلى تلك البراث، كأنها السنام المشقق.
When you pass the sand and reach those soft lands, they are like a cracked camel's hump.
البرث أرض لينة مستوية تنبت الشعر؛
Al-birth is soft, level land that grows sparse vegetation.
وفي الحديث: يبعث الله منها سبعين ألفا لا حساب عليهم، ولا عذاب، فيما بين البرث الأحمر وبين كذا ؛
And in the hadith: Allah will raise from it seventy thousand, with no reckoning upon them, nor punishment, between the red soft land and so-and-so.
البرث: الأرض اللينة؛ يريد به أرضا قريبة من حمص، قتل بها جماعة من الشهداء والصالحين؛
Al-birth: the soft land; it refers to land near Homs, where a group of martyrs and righteous people were killed.
ومنه الحديث الآخر: بين الزيتون إلى كذا برث أحمر ؛
And from it is the other hadith: Between the olive trees to so-and-so is a red soft land.
والبرث: مكان لين سهل ينبت النجمة والنصي، والجمع من كل ذلك؛ براث، وأبراث، وبروث؛
And al-birth: a soft, easy place that grows the star-shaped herb and the thorny plant, and the plural of all of that is: barath, abraath, and buruth.
فأما قول رؤبة: أقفرت الوعساء، فالعثاعث ... من أهلها، فالبرق البرارث فإن الأصمعي قال: جعل واحدتها برثية، ثم جمع وحذف الياء للضرورة؛
As for the saying of Ru'bah: The soft sandy land is desolate, the white soft lands... its people, then al-barq al-bararith, Al-Asma'i said: he made its singular 'birthiyyah', then pluralized it and dropped the 'ya' out of necessity.
أراد أن يقول براث فقال برارث؛
He intended to say 'barath' but said 'bararith'.
على جانبي حائر مفرط، ببرث، تبوأنه، معشب
On the sides of a full water basin, in soft land, they settled, green with vegetation.
والبرث: الأرض البيضاء، الرقيقة، السهلة، السريعة النبات؛
And al-birth: the white, thin, easy land, quick to grow vegetation.
والوعساء: الأرض اللينة ذات الرمل.
And al-wa'saa': the soft land with sand.
والعثاعث: جمع عثعثة، وهي الأرض اللينة البيضاء.
And al-'ath'ath: plural of 'ath'athah', which is the soft white land.
البرثة إنما تكون بين سهولة الرمل وحزونة القف،
Al-birthah is found between the ease of the sand and the roughness of the rocky plateau.
أرض برثة، على مثال ما تقدم، مريعة تكون في مساقط الجبال.
A soft land, like what preceded, fertile and found at the foot of mountains.
البرث، بالضم: الرجل الدليل الحاذق.
Al-birth, with dammah: the skilled, expert guide.
برت الرجل إذا تحير؛
A man is 'barata' if he is confused.
وبرث، بالثاء، إذا تنعم تنعما واسعا.
And he is 'baritha', with tha', if he enjoys abundant luxury.