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علز

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes states of distress, agitation, and physical suffering. It encompasses feelings of impatience, anxiety, and the physical manifestations of pain, particularly during illness or at the point of death. It can also refer to intense desire or a specific type of abdominal pain.

Derived headwords

العَلَزnoun
  1. 1.
    Impatience, distressboth

    A state of impatience, distress, or agitation.

  2. 2.
    Tremor, shakingclassical

    A tremor or shaking that affects a sick or intensely desirous person, making them restless.

  3. 3.
    Recurrent painclassical

    Pain that comes in waves, like fever accompanied by cough or headache.

  4. 4.
    Anxiety at deathclassical

    Anxiety and distress experienced at the point of death.

  5. 5.
    Agitation, panicclassical

    Agitation, panic, and fear that afflicts a person.

  6. 6.
    Painful deathclassical

    Dying from pain and restlessness, unable to sleep.

  7. 7.
    Labor of deathclassical

    The final throes or struggle of death.

  8. 8.
    Difficulty, hardshipclassical

    Something that causes distress or hardship, likened to the difficulty of death.

علزverb
  1. 1.
    To be impatient, distressedboth

    To experience impatience, distress, or agitation.

  2. 2.
    To trembleclassical

    To tremble or shake due to illness or intense desire.

علزاناnoun
  1. 1.
    Tremor, agitationclassical

    A state of tremor or agitation, a masdar of علز.

علزانnoun
  1. 1.
    Restlessness of a prisonerclassical

    The restlessness or agitation experienced by a prisoner.

أعلزه الوجعverb
  1. 1.
    Pain made him restlessclassical

    The pain caused him to be restless or agitated.

علزاnoun
  1. 1.
    Pain and restlessnessclassical

    Dying from pain and restlessness, without sleep.

العلوزnoun
  1. 1.
    Deathclassical

    Death, particularly the difficult or painful aspects of it.

  2. 2.
    Abdominal painclassical

    A type of abdominal pain, specifically the twisting pain known as 'al-lawy'.

علزverb
  1. 1.
    To be eager, greedyclassical

    To be eager or greedy for something.

  2. 2.
    To be restlessclassical

    To be restless or agitated.

علزnoun
  1. 1.
    Inclination, deviationclassical

    A leaning towards something or a deviation from a course.

عالزname
  1. 1.
    A place nameclassical

    The name of a specific location.

Parallel reading

العلز: الضجر.
Al-'alaz: Impatience.
والعلز: شبه رعدة تأخذ المريض أو الحريص على الشيء كأنه لا يستقر في مكانه من الوجع
And al-'alaz: a tremor-like state that affects the sick person or one intensely desirous of something, as if they cannot stay still in their place from the pain.
علز يعلز علزا وعلزانا
He trembled/was agitated, trembling/being agitated, with 'alaz' and 'alazanan'.
ما لي أراك علزا
Why do I see you restless/agitated?
علزان الأسير شد صفادا
The prisoner's restlessness tightened his bonds.
والعلز أيضا: ما تبعث من الوجع شيئا إثر شيء كالحمى يدخل عليها السعال والصداع ونحوهما.
And al-'alaz also: what is sent forth from pain, one thing after another, like fever upon which cough and headache enter, and the like.
والعلز: القلق والكرب عند الموت
And al-'alaz: anxiety and distress at the point of death.
وإذا له علز وحشرجة ... مما يجيش به من الصدر
And indeed, he had restlessness and a death rattle... from what was churning within his chest.
هل ينتظر أهل بضاضة الشباب إلا علز القلق؟
Do the vigorous youths await anything but the agitation of anxiety?
قال: العلز، بالتحريك، خفة وقلق وهلع يصيب الإنسان
He said: Al-'alaz, with vowelization, is a lightness, anxiety, and panic that afflicts a person.
ويقال: مات فلان علزا أي وجعا قلقا لا ينام.
And it is said: So-and-so died 'alazan', meaning from pain and restlessness, not sleeping.
والذي ينزل به الموت يوصف بالعلز وهو سياقه نفسه.
And he who is overcome by death is described with 'alaz', which is his own final struggle.
يقال: هو في علز الموت
It is said: He is in the throes of death.
إلى قواف صعبة فيها علز أي فيها ما يورثك ضيقا كالضيق الذي يكون عند الموت.
To difficult rhymes that contain 'alaz', meaning they contain that which causes you distress, like the distress that occurs at death.
والعلوز: الموت.
And al-'alawz: death.
علز علزا: حرص وغرض؛ قال الأزهري: معنى قوله غرض هاهنا أي قلق.
'Alaza 'alazan': to be eager and restless; Al-Azhari said: the meaning of 'gharad' here is restlessness.
والعلز: الميل والعدول، والفعل كالفعل.
And al-'alaz: inclination and deviation, and the verb is like the verb (referring to the root verb).
والعلوز: البشم.
And al-'alawz: gluttony/indigestion.
وهو الوجع الذي يقال له اللوى من أوجاع البطن.
And it is the pain called 'al-lawy' among the pains of the abdomen.
عالز: موضع.
'Aaliz: a place.