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جبس

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes qualities of weakness, dullness, and baseness. It extends to terms for a cowardly or slow-witted person, and also encompasses meanings related to being heavy, inert, or even a specific type of bear cub. Some derived terms also refer to building materials or boastful walking.

Derived headwords

الجِبْسnoun
  1. 1.
    Cowardly, dull personboth

    A cowardly, dull, or foolish person. It can also refer to someone weak and base, or heavy and unresponsive to good.

  2. 2.
    Lowly, base personclassical

    A base, ignoble, and cowardly person.

  3. 3.
    Inert, dull personboth

    Someone inert, dull-witted, or a transgressor.

  4. 4.
    Bear cubclassical

    A young bear.

  5. 5.
    Building materialclassical

    Material used for building, like plaster.

أَجْبَاسnoun
  1. 1.
    Cowardly, dull peopleboth

    Plural of جبس, referring to cowardly, dull, or base people.

جُبُوسnoun
  1. 1.
    Cowardly, dull peopleboth

    Plural of جبس, referring to cowardly, dull, or base people.

الأَجْبَسadjective
  1. 1.
    Cowardly, weakboth

    Describing someone who is cowardly and weak, similar to جبس.

التَّجَبُّسnoun
  1. 1.
    Strutting, swaggeringboth

    The act of walking with a strut or swagger; boastfulness.

تَجَبَّسَverb
  1. 1.
    To strut, swaggerboth

    To walk with a strut or swagger; to be boastful.

المَجْبُوسadjective
  1. 1.
    One who is approached willinglyclassical

    Someone who is approached or comes willingly.

  2. 2.
    Effeminate, passive maleclassical

    A term describing an effeminate or passively homosexual man.

الجَبِيسadjective
  1. 1.
    Effeminate, passive maleclassical

    A term describing an effeminate or passively homosexual man.

Parallel reading

الجبان الفدم
The cowardly, dull person.
الضعيف اللئيم
The weak, base person.
الثقيل الذي لا يجيب إلى خير
The heavy one who does not respond to good.
والجمع أجباس وجبوس
And the plural is ajbās and jubūs.
والأجبس: الجبان الضعيف كالجبس
And al-ajbas: the cowardly, weak person like al-jibs.
على مثلها آتي المهالك واحدا، ... إذا خام عن طول السرى كل أجبس
Upon such as her, I approach dangers alone, ... when every cowardly one falters from the length of the night journey.
والجبس: الرديء الدنيء الجبان
And al-jibs: the bad, lowly, cowardly one.
خمس إذا سار به الجبس بكى
Five things, if the base one travels with them, they weep.
ويقال: هو ولد زنية
And it is said: he is a child of fornication.
والجبس: هو الجامد من كل شيء الثقيل الروح والفاسق
And al-jibs: it is the inert of everything, the dull-spirited and the transgressor.
ويقال: إنه لجبس من الرجال إذا كان عييا
And it is said: he is a dull person among men if he is tongue-tied.
والجبس: من أولاد الدببة
And al-jibs: from the cubs of bears.
والجبس: الذي يبنى به؛ عن كراع
And al-jibs: that by which one builds; according to Kra'a.
والتجبس: التبختر
And at-tajabbus: the strutting.
تمشي إلى رواء عاطناتها ... تجبس العانس في ريطاتها
She walks towards the beauty of her companions... strutting, the unmarried woman in her wrappers.
تجبس في مشيه تجبسا إذا تبختر
He struts in his walk with a strutting if he boasts.
والمجبوس: الذي يؤتى طائعا
And al-majbūs: he who is approached willingly.
المجبوس والجبيس نعت الرجل المأبون
Al-majbūs and al-jabīs are descriptions of an effeminate man.