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فلز

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns metals, precious stones, and their impurities. It extends to concepts of hardness, strength, and robustness, both in materials and in people.

Derived headwords

الفِلِزّnoun
  1. 1.
    White copperclassical

    A type of white copper, from which large hollow pots and mortars are made.

  2. 2.
    Stonesclassical

    Refers to stones in general, or specifically to all precious minerals from the earth like gold, silver, copper, and their like, as well as their dross.

الفِلْزnoun
  1. 1.
    White copperclassical

    A type of white copper, from which large hollow pots and mortars are made.

  2. 2.
    Stonesclassical

    Refers to stones in general, or specifically to all precious minerals from the earth like gold, silver, copper, and their like, as well as their dross.

الفِلَزnoun
  1. 1.
    White copperclassical

    A type of white copper, from which large hollow pots and mortars are made.

  2. 2.
    Stonesclassical

    Refers to stones in general, or specifically to all precious minerals from the earth like gold, silver, copper, and their like, as well as their dross.

الفِلِزّnoun
  1. 1.
    Dross of melted metalsclassical

    The impurity or dross that is removed when melting gold, silver, iron, and other precious minerals from the earth in a furnace.

فلِزّadjective
  1. 1.
    Robust, strong, stoutclassical

    Describes a person who is thick, strong, and robust.

Parallel reading

الفلز والفلز والفلز: النحاس الأبيض تجعل منه القدور العظام المفرغة والهاونات.
Al-filizz, al-filizz, and al-filizz: the white copper from which large hollow pots and mortars are made.
والفلز والفلز: الحجارة، وقيل: هو جميع جواهر الأرض من الذهب والفضة والنحاس وأشباهها وما يرمى من خبثها.
And al-filizz and al-filizz: stones, and it is said: it is all the jewels of the earth, such as gold, silver, copper, and their like, and what is cast off as their dross.
من فلز اللجين والعقيان
from the metal of silver and gold
والفلز أيضا، بالكسر وتشديد الزاي: خبث ما أذيب من الذهب والفضة والحديد وما ينفيه الكير مما يذاب من جواهر الأرض.
And al-filazz, with a kasra and shadda on the za', is the dross of what has been melted of gold, silver, iron, and what the furnace expels from the melted jewels of the earth.
كل فلز أذيب، هو من ذلك.
Every metal that is melted, it is from that.
ورجل فلز: غليظ شديد.
And a man is filazz: thick and strong.