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جرجس

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily refers to small biting insects, specifically lice or gnats. It also has a secondary meaning related to a document or scroll, and a proper name.

Derived headwords

الجَرْجَسnoun
  1. 1.
    liceboth

    A common term for lice, small parasitic insects.

  2. 2.
    gnatsboth

    Alternatively, it can refer to gnats or small biting flies.

القَرْقَسnoun
  1. 1.
    gnatsclassical

    A variant term for gnats, often used in contrast to 'جرجس'.

الفَرْقَسnoun
  1. 1.
    gnatsclassical

    Another term for gnats, with 'جرجس' being a linguistic variation of it.

جرْجيسname
  1. 1.
    Jerjisboth

    A proper name, specifically referring to a prophet.

الجَرْجَسnoun
  1. 1.
    scrollclassical

    A document or scroll, often made of parchment or paper.

Parallel reading

البق، وقيل: البعوض
Lice, and it was said: gnats.
إنما هو القرقس
It is only the Qarqas.
الجرجس لغة في الفرقس، وهو البعوض الصغار
Al-Jarjas is a dialectal variant of Al-Farqas, which is small gnats.
لبيض بنجد لم يبتن نواطرا ... بزرع، ولم يدرج عليهن جرجس
For eggs in Najd that did not spend the night as watchers... with planting, and no Jarjas crawled over them.
أحب إلينا من سواكن قرية ... مثجلة، داياتها تتكدس
Is dearer to us than the inhabitants of a village... abundant, whose nurses are piled up.
جرجيس: اسم نبي
Jurjis: the name of a prophet.
والجرجس: الصحيفة
And Al-Jarjas: the scroll.
ترى أثر القرح في نفسه ... كنقش الخواتيم في الجرجس
You see the mark of the ulcer on his soul... like the engraving of seals on the scroll.