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شرث

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes roughness, coarseness, and chapping, particularly related to the skin of hands and feet, or the texture of bread. It can also extend to describe a rough or unrefined quality in other contexts, such as a sword or a place.

Derived headwords

شَرِثَverb
  1. 1.
    to be roughboth

    To become rough, chapped, or coarse, typically referring to skin.

شَرْثnoun
  1. 1.
    roughnessboth

    Roughness, coarseness, or chapping of the skin, especially of the hands and feet.

  2. 2.
    chapped skinclassical

    Specifically, the cracking or chapping of fingers.

  3. 3.
    roughness of handclassical

    The coarseness of the back of the hand due to winter cold.

شَرِثٌadjective
  1. 1.
    roughboth

    Describing something as rough, coarse, or chapped.

  2. 2.
    chappedboth

    Having chapped or cracked skin.

شَرِثَadjective
  1. 1.
    roughboth

    Possessing roughness or coarseness.

شَرِثَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    worn-out sandalclassical

    A worn-out or old sandal.

شَرِثٌnoun
  1. 1.
    roughnessclassical

    The quality of being rough or coarse.

شَرِثٌadjective
  1. 1.
    rough (sword)classical

    Describing a sword as rough or coarse, possibly referring to its blade or tip.

شَرِثٌadjective
  1. 1.
    rough (spear tip)classical

    Describing a spear tip as rough or unrefined.

شَرِثٌadjective
  1. 1.
    rough (bread)classical

    Describing bread as rough, not finely made or softened.

شَرِثٌadjective
  1. 1.
    rough (place)classical

    Describing a place as rough or rugged.

شَرِثٌadjective
  1. 1.
    rough (condition)classical

    Describing a general condition as rough or unrefined.

شَرِثَverb
  1. 1.
    to tearclassical

    To tear or split, referring to a sandal.

شَرِثَverb
  1. 1.
    to be roughclassical

    To be rough or unrefined, referring to a sandal's construction.

شَرِثٌadjective
  1. 1.
    rough (construction)classical

    Describing something, like a sandal, as having a rough or unrefined construction.

شَرِثٌadjective
  1. 1.
    unkemptclassical

    Describing a person as unkempt or disheveled.

شَرِثٌadjective
  1. 1.
    rough (texture)classical

    Describing a texture as rough.

شَرِثَانname
  1. 1.
    Sharthanclassical

    The name of a mountain.

Parallel reading

غلظ الكف والرجل وانشقاقهما
The roughness of the palm and the foot and their cracking.
هو تشقق الأصابع
It is the cracking of the fingers.
هو غلظ ظهر الكف من برد الشتاء
It is the coarseness of the back of the hand from the winter cold.
وقد شرث شرثا، فهو شرث، وقد شرثت يده تشرث
And he became rough with roughness, so he is rough, and his hand became rough.
سيف شرث، وسنان شرث
A rough sword, and a rough spear tip.
حتى تلافاها بمطرور شرث أي بسنان مطرور أي حديد
Until he reached it with a sharpened, rough spear, meaning a sharpened, meaning iron spearhead.
لا خير في الثريد إذا كان شرثا فرثا
There is no good in tharid (a dish of bread and broth) if it is rough and coarse.
كأنه فلاقة آجر
As if it were a slab of baked brick.
وعندي أنه الخشن الذي لم يرقق خبزه، ولا أذيب سمنه
And I think it is the coarse (bread) whose bread was not thinned, nor its fat melted.
والشرث: تفتق النعل المطبقة
And al-sharath: the tearing of the fitted sandal.
هذا غلام شرث النقيله، أشعث، لم يؤدم له بكيله، يخاف أن تمصه الوبيله
This is a boy with rough heels, unkempt, whose provisions were not seasoned for him, fearing that the calamity would consume him.
والشرثة: النعل الخلق
And al-sharathah: the worn-out sandal.
الشرث الخلق من كل شيء
The rough, worn-out thing of every kind.
شرثان هذاك وراء هبود
Sharthan is that, beyond Hbud.