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حفلد

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to describe a stingy or miserly person. It is associated with someone who is reluctant to share and behaves rudely or offensively towards others, particularly when it comes to wealth or possessions.

Derived headwords

الحَفْلَدnoun
  1. 1.
    miserclassical

    A stingy and miserly person, characterized by extreme reluctance to share or give.

حفلدverb
  1. 1.
    to be stingyclassical

    To act in a miserly and stingy manner, characterized by hoarding and unwillingness to share.

Parallel reading

الحفلد البخيل وهو الذي لا تراه إلا وهو يشار الناس ويفحش عليهم
The miser is stingy, and he is one whom you never see except when he is hoarding from people and behaving rudely towards them.
تقي نقي لم يكثر غنيمة بنكهة ذي قربى، ولا بحفلد
Pious and pure, he did not gain much booty from kinship, nor from a miser.
ذكره الأزهري في ترجمة حقلد بالقاف، قال: ورواه بالفاء.
Al-Azhari mentioned it in the entry for (حقلد) with a Qaf, and said: He narrated it with a Fa.