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غرد

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns sounds, particularly pleasant or musical ones, often associated with birdsong or singing. It extends to the act of making such sounds, whether by humans or animals, and can also refer to a type of truffle.

Derived headwords

غَرَّدَverb
  1. 1.
    to singboth

    To produce a melodious sound, especially like a bird. It can also refer to a human singing or making a pleasant sound.

  2. 2.
    to trillboth

    To sing with a warbling or quavering sound, often implying a lively or joyful tone.

  3. 3.
    to make a soundboth

    To produce any sound, particularly a vocal one, which can be pleasant or not.

تَغْرِيدnoun
  1. 1.
    singingboth

    The act or sound of singing, especially melodious vocalization.

  2. 2.
    trilling soundboth

    A sound characterized by a slight hoarseness or roughness, often associated with birdsong.

تَغْرِيدٌnoun
  1. 1.
    singingboth

    The act or sound of singing, especially melodious vocalization.

  2. 2.
    trilling soundboth

    A sound characterized by a slight hoarseness or roughness, often associated with birdsong.

غَرَدٌnoun
  1. 1.
    singingboth

    The act of singing or making a pleasant, melodious sound.

  2. 2.
    soundboth

    A vocal sound, particularly one that is pleasant or musical.

غَرِدٌadjective
  1. 1.
    singingboth

    Describing a bird or other creature that sings or makes a melodious sound.

غَرِّيدٌadjective
  1. 1.
    singingboth

    Describing a creature that sings or makes a pleasant sound.

غَرِّيدٌnoun
  1. 1.
    singerboth

    A creature that sings or makes a pleasant sound.

غَرَدٌnoun
  1. 1.
    truffleclassical

    A type of fungus that grows underground, specifically a variety of truffle.

  2. 2.
    small truffleclassical

    A small variety of truffle.

  3. 3.
    poor truffleclassical

    A low-quality or inferior type of truffle.

غُرَدَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    truffleclassical

    A type of truffle, often referring to the smaller or inferior kinds.

غُرَدَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    truffleclassical

    A type of truffle, often referring to the smaller or inferior kinds.

غَرَّادَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    truffleclassical

    A type of truffle, often referring to the smaller or inferior kinds.

مُغَرِّدٌnoun
  1. 1.
    truffleclassical

    A type of truffle, specifically the small or inferior kind.

مُغَرَّدٌnoun
  1. 1.
    truffleclassical

    A type of truffle, specifically the small or inferior kind.

مُغَرِّدَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    truffle-richclassical

    Describing land that is abundant with truffles.

تَغَرَّدَverb
  1. 1.
    to singboth

    To sing or make a melodious sound, similar to 'gharrada'.

اِسْتَغْرَدَverb
  1. 1.
    to invite to singclassical

    To call or invite something, like a garden attracting insects, to make a sound or sing.

غَرَّدَverb
  1. 1.
    to make a soundclassical

    To produce a sound, especially when referring to a bowstring or a bow.

Parallel reading

التطريب في الصوت والغناء.
Melodious sound in voice and singing.
والتغرد والتغريد: صوت معه بحح؛
And al-tagharrud and al-taghrīd: a sound with a slight hoarseness.
يغرد بالأسحار في كل سدفة، ... تغرد مريح الندامى المطرب
He sings at dawn in every twilight, ... singing, relieving the companions, the entertainer.
كل صائت طرب في الصوت غرد،
Every sound-maker that is joyful in its sound, sings.
والفعل غرد يغرد تغريدا.
And the verb is gharrada, yugharridu, taghrīdan.
التغريد الصوت.
Al-taghrīd is the sound.
وغرد الطائر، فهو غرد، والتغريد مثله؛
And the bird sings, so it is gharrid, and al-taghrīd is similar.
إذا عرضت داوية مدلهمة، ... وغرد حاديها، فرين بها فلقا
When a dark, rain-filled valley appears, ... and its driver sings, and they find a passage through it.
وغرد الإنسان: رفع صوته وطرب،
And a human sings: he raises his voice and is joyful.
وكذلك الحمامة والمكاء والديك والذباب.
And likewise the dove, the hoopoe, the rooster, and the fly.
سمعت قمريا فأغردني أي أطربني بتغريده،
I heard a dove and it made me sing, meaning it delighted me with its singing.
كل مصوت مطرب بصوته مغرد وغريد وغريد وغرد وغرد،
Every sound-maker that delights with its voice is a singer (mugharrid, gharrīd, gharrīd, gharrad, gharrad).
وأما قول الهذلي: يغرد ركبا فوق حوص سواهم، ... بها كل منجاب القميص شمردل
As for the saying of al-Hudhali: Riders sing atop their camels, ... with every tall, broad-shouldered man.
وعندنا ... غرد الزجاجة واكف المعصار
And we have ... wine that makes one sing when drunk.
تعالوا نحالف صامتا ومزاحما ... عليهم نصارا، ما تغرد راكب
Come, let us ally with a silent one and a rival ... against them, no rider sings.
واستغرد الروض الذباب: دعاه بنعمته إلى أن يغني فيغرد؛
And the meadow invited the flies: it called them with its bounty to sing and be delighted.
والغرد، بالكسر، والغرد، بالفتح، والغردة والغردة والغردة والغرادة: ضرب من الكمأة،
And al-gharrad (with kasr), and al-gharrad (with fath), and al-ghurdat, al-ghurdat, al-ghurdat, and al-gharrādah: a type of truffle.
والجمع غردة وغراد، وجمع الغرادة غراد، وهي المغاريد، واحدها مغرود؛
And the plural is ghurdat and ghurād, and the plural of al-gharrādah is ghurād, and they are al-maghārīd, the singular of which is maghrūd.
الغراد الكمأة، واحدتها غرادة، وهي أيضا الغرادة، واحدتها غردة
Al-gharrād are truffles, their singular is gharrādah, and it is also al-gharrādah, its singular is ghurdah.
هي المغرودة فرد ذلك عليه؛
It is al-maghrūdah, and that was attributed to it.
المغرود من الكمأة، بفتح الميم؛
Al-maghrūd of truffles, with fath of the mim.
الغرد والمغرود، بضم الميم، الكمأة وهو مفعول نادر؛
Al-gharrad and al-maghrūd, with dammah of the mim, are truffles, and it is a rare passive participle.
لو كنتم صوفا لكنتم قردا، ... أو كنتم لحما لكنتم غردا
If you were wool, you would be monkeys, ... or if you were meat, you would be gharrada (truffles).
ليس في كلام العرب مفعول، مضموم الميم، إلا مغرود لضرب من الكمأة،
There is no passive participle in Arabic with a dammah on the mim, except for maghrūd for a type of truffle.
والمغروداء: الأرض الكثيرة المغاريد.
And al-maghrūdā': land abundant with truffles.