قردح

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to concepts of submission, yielding, and enduring hardship or humiliation. It also has a secondary meaning related to a type of cloth and a large, bulky object.

Derived headwords

القُرْدَحnoun

1.
Type of clothclassical
A kind of fine cloth or garment.

القِرْدَحnoun

1.
Large, bulky thingclassical
A large or bulky object, possibly referring to a type of animal or thing.

قَرَدَحَverb

1.
To submit to injusticeclassical
To submit or yield to what is demanded or requested, especially in a context of oppression or humiliation.

أَقْرَدَحَverb

1.
To submit to demandsclassical
To acknowledge or agree to what is requested or demanded, implying submission.

القَرْدَحَةnoun

1.
Submission to oppressionclassical
The act of submitting to injustice, oppression, or humiliation.
2.
Endurance of humiliationclassical
Patience and endurance in the face of degradation and disgrace.

القِرْدَاحَةnoun

1.
Humiliationclassical
A state of degradation, disgrace, or humiliation.

المُقَرْدِحadjective

1.
Submissive and abjectclassical
One who is submissive, self-abasing, and humbled.

القُرْدَانnoun

1.
Large, bulky thingsclassical
Plural form referring to large, bulky objects or creatures.

Parallel reading

القردح والقردح: ضرب من البرود.

Al-qurdah and al-qurdah: a type of fine cloth.

وقردح الرجل، أقر بما يطلب إليه أو يطلب منه.

And when a man qardaha, he acknowledged what was requested of him or what he requested.

القردحة الإقرار على الضيم، والصبر على الذل.

Al-qardahah is the acknowledgment of injustice, and patience in humiliation.

والمقردح: المتذلل المتصاغر؛

And al-muqardih: the one who is submissive and self-abasing.

يا بني إذا أصابتكم خطة ضيم لا تطيقون دفعها فقردحوا لها

My sons, if you are afflicted by a matter of injustice that you cannot repel, then submit to it.

فإن اضطرابكم منه أشد لرسوخكم فيه؛

For your agitation over it will be more severe for your establishment within it.

لا تضطربوا له فيزيدكم خبالا.

Do not be agitated by it, lest it increase your confusion.

القردعة والقردحة الذل.

Al-qard'ah and al-qardahah are humiliation.

القردح الضخم من القردان.

Al-qurdah is the large, bulky one from al-qirdan.