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شربث

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes something or someone as ugly, coarse, or rough. It extends to physical descriptions of hands, feet, and even wounds, and can also refer to a lion or a man's name.

Derived headwords

الشَّرَنْبَثnoun
  1. 1.
    Ugly, coarse personclassical

    A person who is ugly and coarse in appearance.

  2. 2.
    Coarse hands/feetclassical

    Someone with coarse hands and feet, described as rough.

  3. 3.
    Lionclassical

    A lion, often described as coarse or strong.

الشَّرَابِثnoun
  1. 1.
    Ugly, coarse personclassical

    A person who is ugly and coarse in appearance.

  2. 2.
    Coarse hands/feetclassical

    Someone with coarse hands and feet, described as rough.

شَرَنْبَثadjective
  1. 1.
    Ugly, coarseclassical

    Describing someone as ugly and coarse.

  2. 2.
    Coarse handsclassical

    Describing hands as coarse or rough.

  3. 3.
    Coarse feetclassical

    Describing feet as coarse or rough.

  4. 4.
    Coarse (lion)classical

    Describing a lion as coarse or strong.

شَرَابِثadjective
  1. 1.
    Ugly, coarseclassical

    Describing someone as ugly and coarse.

  2. 2.
    Coarse handsclassical

    Describing hands as coarse or rough.

  3. 3.
    Coarse feetclassical

    Describing feet as coarse or rough.

شَرَنْبَثname
  1. 1.
    Man's nameclassical

    A proper name for a man.

شَرَابِثname
  1. 1.
    Man's nameclassical

    A proper name for a man.

شَجَّةٌ شَرَنْبَثَةadjective
  1. 1.
    Swollen, contracted woundclassical

    A wound that is swollen and contracted.

Parallel reading

القبيح الشديد
The ugly, severe one.
هو الغليظ الكفين
He is coarse in the hands.
والرجلين
And in the feet.
والقدمين الخشنهما
And the feet, their roughness.
أنشد ابن الأعرابي: أذننا شرابث رأس الدير
Ibn al-A'rabi recited: We have become accustomed to the coarse one, the head of the monastery.
والله نفاح اليدين بالخير
And God is generous with His hands in goodness.
الشرنبث الغليظ الكف وعروق اليد
The coarse one is thick of hand and the veins of the hand.
وربما وصف به الأسد
And sometimes the lion is described by it.
والشرنبث: الأسد عامة
And al-Sharnabath: the lion in general.
وأسد شرنبث: غليظ
And a coarse lion: thick/strong.
وشجة شرنبثة: منتفخة متقبضة
And a coarse wound: swollen, contracted.
النون والألف يتعاوران الاسم في معنى، نحو شرنبث وشرابث، وجرنفس وجرافس
The 'nun' and 'alif' interchange the noun in meaning, like 'sharnabath' and 'sharābath', and 'jarnafas' and 'jarāfis'.
وشرنبث وشرابث: اسم رجل
And Sharnabath and Sharābath: a man's name.