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بيث

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the act of digging, excavating, and extracting something from the ground, often soil or water from a well. It also extends to the idea of stirring up or provoking something, and in a derived sense, refers to a type of sea fish.

Derived headwords

باثverb
  1. 1.
    to digboth

    To dig into the ground, excavating and mixing soil.

  2. 2.
    to extractclassical

    To extract something, particularly soil, from a place.

بيثاnoun
  1. 1.
    diggingclassical

    The act of digging or excavating.

استباثverb
  1. 1.
    to extractclassical

    To extract something, especially from a well or the ground.

  2. 2.
    to excavateclassical

    To excavate and bring forth something, like the 'nabitha' from a well.

النبيثةnoun
  1. 1.
    what is extractedclassical

    That which is extracted or brought forth from a well or the ground.

الاستباثةnoun
  1. 1.
    extractionclassical

    The act of extracting or excavating.

تستبيثverb
  1. 1.
    to provokeclassical

    To stir up or provoke what someone has, such as insults or harmful speech.

أباثverb
  1. 1.
    to digclassical

    To dig into the ground and mix soil.

نبثverb
  1. 1.
    to digclassical

    To dig into the ground and mix soil.

حاث باثnoun
  1. 1.
    people's belongingsclassical

    The belongings, goods, or possessions of people.

بينيثnoun
  1. 1.
    type of fishclassical

    A type of sea fish.

Parallel reading

باث التراب بيثا
The soil was dug, producing a 'baytha'.
واستباثه: استخرجه
And 'istabathahu' means: to extract it.
الاستباثة استخراج النبيثة من البئر
Al-istibathah is the extraction of the nabitha from the well.
والاستباثة: الاستخراج
And al-istibathah means: extraction.
لحق بني شعارة أن يقولوا ... لصخر الغي: ماذا تستبيث؟
It befell the Banu Shu'arah to say... to Sakhr al-Ghay: What do you provoke?
ومعنى تستبيث: تستثير ما عند أبي المثلم من هجاء ونحوه
And the meaning of 'tastabith' is: to stir up what Abu al-Muthallam has of satire and the like.
وباث وأباث واستباث ونبث، بمعنى واحد
And 'bath', 'abath', 'istabath', and 'nabath' have one meaning.
وباث المكان بيثا إذا حفر فيه وخلط فيه ترابا
And 'bath' a place, producing 'baytha', if one digs in it and mixes soil in it.
حاث باث: قماش الناس
Hath bath: the belongings of people.
البينيث ضرب من سمك البحر
Al-baynith is a type of sea fish.