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قربز

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root describes a male who is strong, robust, and firm. It also extends to describe someone who is cunning or deceitful, with the terms considered to be of foreign origin.

Derived headwords

القربزnoun
  1. 1.
    strong, firm maleboth

    Refers to a male who is physically strong, solid, and robust.

  2. 2.
    cunning, deceitful personclassical

    Describes someone who is cunning, sly, or deceitful.

القربزيadjective
  1. 1.
    strong, firmboth

    An adjective describing a male as strong, solid, and robust.

  2. 2.
    cunning, deceitfulclassical

    An adjective describing someone as cunning, sly, or deceitful.

جربزadjective
  1. 1.
    strong, firmboth

    Describes a male as strong, solid, and robust.

الجربزةnoun
  1. 1.
    cunning, deceitfulnessclassical

    The state or quality of being cunning, sly, or deceitful.

Parallel reading

القربز والقربزي: الذكر الصلب الشديد.
Al-qurbaz and al-qurbazi: the strong, firm male.
رجل جربز، بالضم، بين الجربزة، بالفتح، أي خب، وهو القربز أيضا
A man jarbaz (with dammah), exhibiting jarbazah (with fatha), meaning cunning, and he is also al-qurbaz.
وهما معربان
And they are both loanwords (from other languages).