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شرخ

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of beginnings, youth, and the early stages of things. It extends to the edges or sharp parts of objects, and also refers to offspring or young animals.

Derived headwords

شَرخnoun
  1. 1.
    origin, rootclassical

    The fundamental origin or root of something.

  2. 2.
    edge, sharp partclassical

    The protruding or sharp edge of something, like an arrowhead.

  3. 3.
    beginning of youthboth

    The early stage of youth, characterized by vigor and freshness.

  4. 4.
    young personclassical

    A young person, often used collectively.

  5. 5.
    offspring, youngclassical

    The offspring of animals, particularly camels, born in a specific year.

  6. 6.
    young camel's toothclassical

    The tooth of a young camel that is emerging.

  7. 7.
    unfitted arrowheadclassical

    An arrowhead that has not yet been fitted with its shaft.

  8. 8.
    peers, contemporariesclassical

    People of the same age or generation.

شَرخاnoun
  1. 1.
    edges of a bowclassical

    The two protruding edges of a bow where the string is placed.

  2. 2.
    edges of a saddleclassical

    The edges or sides of a saddle, or its wooden parts.

شَرخ الشبابnoun
  1. 1.
    prime of youthboth

    The peak of youth, encompassing its vigor, freshness, and strength.

شارِخnoun
  1. 1.
    young personclassical

    A young person, a youth.

شُروخnoun
  1. 1.
    youthsclassical

    Plural of شرخ (sharikh), referring to young people.

  2. 2.
    emerging teethclassical

    The process or state of teeth emerging, especially in young camels.

  3. 3.
    unfitted arrowheadsclassical

    Plural of شرخ (sharikh), referring to arrowheads not yet fitted with shafts.

يَشرَخverb
  1. 1.
    to emerge (tooth)classical

    Describing the emergence or splitting of a young camel's tooth.

شَرِخadjective
  1. 1.
    youngclassical

    Describing something as being in its early or youthful stage.

شَرَاخnoun
  1. 1.
    bad truffleclassical

    A spoiled or softened truffle.

شِرْياخnoun
  1. 1.
    bad truffleclassical

    A spoiled or softened truffle.

شَرَّخَverb
  1. 1.
    to split (tooth)classical

    To cause a tooth, particularly a young camel's, to split and emerge.

Parallel reading

الشرخ والسنخ: الأصل والعرق.
Al-sharikh and al-sankh: the origin and the root.
وشرخ كل شيء: حرفه الناتئ كالسهم ونحوه.
And the sharikh of everything: its protruding edge like an arrowhead and the like.
وشرخا الفوق: حرفاه المشرفان اللذان يقع بينهما الوتر؛
And the sharikha of the bow: its two prominent edges between which the string lies;
زنمتا السهم شرخا فوقه وهما اللذان الوتر بينهما، وشرخا السهم مثله؛
The two nocks of the arrow are its sharikha above, and they are the ones between which the string lies, and the sharikha of the arrow are like that;
كأن المتن والشرخين منه ... خلاف النصل، سيط به مشيح
As if the shaft and the two sharikhas of it... are different from the arrowhead, smeared with a swift one.
وشرخ الأمر والشباب: أوله.
And the sharikh of a matter and youth: its beginning.
وشرخ الشباب: أوله ونضارته وقوته وهو مصدر يقع على الواحد والاثنين والجمع؛
And the sharikh of youth: its beginning, its freshness, and its strength, and it is a masdar that applies to one, two, or many;
لعلك ترجع بين شرخي الرحل أي جانبيه؛
Perhaps you will return between the two sharikhas of the saddle, meaning its sides;
جاء وهو بين الشرخين أي جانبي الرحل.
He came while he was between the two sharikhas, meaning the sides of the saddle.
الشرخ الشاب وهو اسم يقع موقع الجمع؛
Al-sharikh is the young person, and it is a noun that takes the place of a plural;
اقتلوا شيوخ المشركين واستحيوا شرخهم ؛
Kill the elders of the polytheists and spare their sharikh (young ones);
إن شرخ الشباب والشعر الأسود، ... ما لم يعاض، كان جنونا
Indeed, the prime of youth and black hair, ... unless supported, is madness.
والشرخ: أول الشباب.
And al-sharikh: the beginning of youth.
والشارخ: الشاب، والشرخ: اسم للجمع؛
And al-shārikh: the young person, and al-sharikh: a noun for the plural;
صيد تسامى وشروخ شرخ
Prey that rises high and the vigorous young ones.
الشرخ: نتاج كل سنة من أولاد الإبل؛
Al-sharikh: the offspring of every year from the young camels;
فلما اعترت طارقات الهموم، ... وقد شرخ الناب منها شروخا
And when the calamities of worries befell, ... the tooth from it had split with emerging cracks.
شرخ ناب البعير شرخا وشرخ الصبي شروخا.
The camel's tooth split (sharrakha), and the child's tooth emerged (sharukha).
وهما شرخان أي مثلان والجمع شروخ وهم الأتراب.
And they are two sharikhan, meaning two equivalents, and the plural is shurūkh, and they are peers.
يقال الشرخ أول الشباب فهو واحد يكفي من الجمع كما تقول رجل صوم ورجلان صوم،
It is said that al-sharikh is the beginning of youth, so it is singular and suffices for the plural, just as you say a man of fasting (rajul ṣawm) and two men of fasting (rajulān ṣawm),
والشرخ جمع شارخ مثل طائر وطير وشارب وشرب؛
And al-sharikh is a plural of shārikh, like ṭā'ir and ṭayr, and shārib and shurb;
يقال هو شرخي وأنا شرخه أي تربي ولدتي.
It is said: he is my sharikh, and I am his sharikh, meaning we were born from the same mother.
الشرياخ: الكمأة الفاسدة التي قد استرخت،
Al-shiryākh: the spoiled truffle that has become soft,