شيز

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily refers to a type of black wood used for making various items, particularly bowls and troughs. It is also associated with a specific tree, sometimes identified with ebony or walnut, from which these wooden items are crafted.

Derived headwords

الشِّيزnoun

1.
black woodclassical
A type of black wood from which combs and other items are made.

الشِّيزَىnoun

1.
black wood treeclassical
A tree from which bowls and troughs are made. It is also identified with the walnut tree, or specifically with bowls made from walnut wood that turn black from fat.
2.
ebonyclassical
The tree is also called ebony or 'al-sāsim'.

جِفَان شِيزَىnoun

1.
bowls made of black woodclassical
Troughs or large bowls made from the black wood of the 'shīzī' tree.

الشِّيزَىnoun

1.
bowls made from the treeclassical
The troughs or large bowls that are made from this tree.

Parallel reading

الشِّيز: خشب أسود تتخذ منه الأمشاط وغيرها.

Al-shīz: black wood from which combs and other things are made.

والشِّيزَى: شجر تعمل منه القصاع والجفان، وقيل: هو شجر الجوز، وقيل: إنما هي قصاع من خشب الجوز فتسود من الدسم.

And al-shīzī: a tree from which bowls and troughs are made; it is said to be the walnut tree, or it is said that they are merely bowls made of walnut wood that turn black from fat.

الشِّيز والشِّيزَى خشب أسود تتخذ منه القصاع؛

Al-shīz and al-shīzī are black wood from which bowls are made;

وصبا غداة مقامة وزعتها ... بجفان شيزى، فوقهن سنام

And a southerly wind in the morning of a gathering I distributed... with bowls of shīzī, above them a hump (of meat).

ويقال للجفان التي تسوى من هذه الشجرة الشيزى؛

And the troughs that are made from this tree are called al-shīzī;

إلى ردح من الشيزى ملاء ... لباب البر يلبك بالشهاد

To a large trough of al-shīzī, full of... fine wheat mixed with honey.

الشِّيزَى شجرة.

Al-shīzī is a tree.

الشِّيزَى يقال له الآبنوس ويقال الساسم؛

Al-shīzī is called ebony and it is called al-sāsim;

فماذا بالقليب قليب بدر ... من الشيزى، يزين بالسنام

What is in the well, the well of Badr... from al-shīzī, adorned with the hump (of meat).

الشِّيزَى: شجر تتخذ منه الجفان، وأراد بالجفان أربابها الذين كانوا يطعمون فيها وقتلوا ببدر وألقوا في القليب، فهو يرثيهم، وسمى الجفان شيزى باسم أصلها، والله تعالى أعلم.

Al-shīzī: a tree from which troughs are made. And he intended by the troughs their masters who used to eat in them and were killed at Badr and thrown into the well, so he is mourning them, and he named the troughs shīzī after its origin, and God Almighty knows best.