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تخخ

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with the concept of sourness or fermentation, particularly in dough. It extends to meanings related to looseness, excessive moisture, and by extension, a lack of clarity or fluency in speech, leading to the idea of being tongue-tied or speaking with an accent.

Derived headwords

التخّnoun
  1. 1.
    sour doughboth

    Dough that has become sour, typically due to fermentation.

  2. 2.
    loose doughboth

    Dough that is slack or overly relaxed.

  3. 3.
    livelihoodclassical

    Earnings or a livelihood.

تخّverb
  1. 1.
    to become sourboth

    The dough became sour.

  2. 2.
    to become looseboth

    The dough or mud became loose due to excessive water.

تخوخاnoun
  1. 1.
    sournessboth

    The state or process of becoming sour, referring to dough.

  2. 2.
    loosenessboth

    The state of becoming loose or overly moist, referring to dough or mud.

أتخّهverb
  1. 1.
    to make sourboth

    To cause dough to become sour.

  2. 2.
    to make looseboth

    To cause dough or mud to become loose by adding excessive water.

إتخاخاnoun
  1. 1.
    making sourboth

    The act of causing dough to become sour.

  2. 2.
    making looseboth

    The act of causing dough or mud to become loose.

التختخةnoun
  1. 1.
    sound of jinnclassical

    A sound described as being like the sounds made by jinn.

  2. 2.
    accentclassical

    A manner of speaking with an accent or a lisp.

التختاخname
  1. 1.
    a name derived from soundclassical

    A name derived from the sound of jinn.

رجل تختاخadjective
  1. 1.
    tongue-tied manclassical

    A man who speaks with an accent or is tongue-tied.

تختخانيadjective
  1. 1.
    accented speakerclassical

    One who speaks with an accent or has a lisp.

Parallel reading

العجين الحامض
sour dough
تخ العجين يتخ تخوخا
The dough became sour, becoming sour with sourness.
أتخه صاحبه إتخاخا
Its owner made it sour, causing it to become sour.
العجين المسترخي
The slack dough.
تخ العجين تخا إذا أكثر ماؤه حتى يلين
The dough became loose when its water increased until it softened.
وكذلك الطين إذا أفرط في كثرة مائه حتى لا يمكن أن يطين به
And likewise the mud when its water is excessive to the point it cannot be used for plastering.
وأتخهما هو فعل بهما ذلك
And making them so is to do that to them.
التختخة: في بعض حكاية الأصوات كأصوات الجن
The takhtakha: in some accounts of sounds like the sounds of jinn.
وبه سمي التختاخ
And by this, the takhtakh was named.
والتختخة: اللكنة
And the takhtakha: the accent.
ورجل تختاخ وتختخاني: ألكن
And a man takhtakh and takhtakhani: is one who speaks with an accent.
والتخ: الكسب
And the takh: the livelihood.