دربس

Root entry · 9 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with concepts of fierceness, aggression, and imposing presence, often associated with animals like dogs and camels, or with formidable individuals. It also extends to meanings of advancement, submission, and even specific objects or ailments.

Derived headwords

الدِّرْبَاسnoun

1.
fierce dogboth
A ferocious and aggressive dog.
2.
formidable personclassical
A strong, imposing, or formidable man.

أعددت درواسا لدرباس الحمت — I prepared a weapon for the fierce dog of Al-Hamt.

الدَّرَابِسnoun

1.
huge and strong camelclassical
A large, robust, and powerful camel.
2.
huge and strong manclassical
A large, robust, and powerful man.

لو كنت أمسيت طليحا ناعسا، ... لم تلف ذا راوية درابسا — If you had spent the night exhausted and sleepy, ... you would not have found a man of such carrying capacity, strong and robust.

تدربسverb

1.
to advanceclassical
To move forward or advance, especially into a challenging situation.

إذا القوم قالوا: من فتى لمهمة؟ ... تدربس باقي الريق فخم المناكب — When the people said, 'Who is a man for a mission?' ... he advanced, his remaining saliva flowing, his shoulders broad.

دردبسverb

1.
to be submissiveclassical
To become humble, submissive, or lowly.

أم عيال فخمة تعوس، ... قد دردبت — A woman of many children, imposing, moving about, ... has become submissive.

الدردبيسnoun

1.
black beadclassical
A black bead, resembling the color of the liver, which is translucent like a red grape when held to the light. Women use it to charm their husbands. It is found in the graves of 'Ad.
2.
a charmclassical
A type of bead used as a charm or enticement, particularly by women to attract men.
3.
penisclassical
A euphemism for the male organ, referred to as 'dry sweat'.
4.
old manclassical
An old man.
5.
old womanclassical
An old woman.
6.
calamityclassical
A disaster or a serious problem.
7.
a type of shoeclassical
A type of shoe.

قطعت القيد والخرزات عني، ... فمن لي من علاج الدردبيس؟ — I have cut off the chain and the beads from me, ... who can help me with the treatment of Al-Durdbays?

أخذته بالدردبيس تدر العرق اليبيس — I took him with Al-Durdbays, it makes the dry sweat flow.

الدردبيسnoun

1.
old manclassical
An old man, with a kasra on the 'dal'.

والشيخ دردبيس العوس: هو الطوفان بالليل — And the old man is Durdbays of Al-'Aws: it is the flood at night.

دردبتverb

1.
to be humble and submissiveclassical
To act in a humble, submissive, or lowly manner.

دردبت: خضعت وذلت — She became humble and submissive.

الدرداقسnoun

1.
back of the headclassical
The bone at the back of the head, specifically the prominent part above the nape.

الدرداقس: عظم القفا، قيل فيه إنه أعجمي — Al-Dardāqis: the bone of the nape of the neck; it is said to be non-Arabic.

الدرقاسnoun

1.
back of the headclassical
The bone at the back of the head, likely a variant of الدرداقس.

من زال عن قصد السبيل، تزايلت ... بالسيف هامته عن الدرقاس — Whoever deviates from the right path, his head is separated by the sword from the back of his neck.

Parallel reading

الدرباس: الكلب العقور

Al-Dirbās: the ferocious dog.

قال الشاعر: أعددت درواسا لدرباس الحمت

And the poet said: I prepared a weapon for the fierce dog of Al-Hamt.

وقالوا: الدرابس الضخم الشديد من الإبل ومن الرجال

And they said: Al-Darābis is the large and strong one among camels and among men.

لو كنت أمسيت طليحا ناعسا، ... لم تلف ذا راوية درابسا

If you had spent the night exhausted and sleepy, ... you would not have found a man of such carrying capacity, strong and robust.

وتدربس أي تقدم

And tadarbas means to advance.

إذا القوم قالوا: من فتى لمهمة؟ ... تدربس باقي الريق فخم المناكب

When the people said, 'Who is a man for a mission?' ... he advanced, his remaining saliva flowing, his shoulders broad.

الدردبيس: خرزة سوداء كأن سوادها لون الكبد، إذا رفعتها واستشففتها رأيتها تشف مثل لون العنبة الحمراء، تتحبب بها المرأة إلى زوجها، توجد في قبور عاد

Al-Durdbays: a black bead, whose blackness is like the color of the liver; if you lift it and look through it, you see it is translucent like the color of a red grape; the woman uses it to endear herself to her husband; it is found in the graves of 'Ad.

قطعت القيد والخرزات عني، ... فمن لي من علاج الدردبيس؟

I have cut off the chain and the beads from me, ... who can help me with the treatment of Al-Durdbays?

قال اللحياني: هي من الخرز التي يؤخذ بها النساء الرجال؛ وأنشد: جمعن من قبل لهن وفطسة ... والدردبيس، مقابلا في المنظم

Al-Lihyani said: It is from the beads with which women take men; and he recited: They gathered before them a flat-nosed one ... and Al-Durdbays, facing each other in the arrangement.

قال: وهن يقلن في تأخيذهن إياه، أخذته بالدردبيس تدر العرق اليبيس، قال: تعني بالعرق اليبيس الذكر، التفسير له.

He said: And they say when they take him, 'I took him with Al-Durdbays, it makes the dry sweat flow.' He said: She means by 'dry sweat' the penis, and this is its explanation.

والدردبيس: الفيشلة.

And Al-Durdbays: the vulva.

الليث: الدردبيس الشيخ الكبير الهم، والعجوز أيضا يقال لها: دردبيس؛ وأنشد: أم عيال فخمة تعوس، ... قد دردبت، والشيخ دردبيس

Al-Layth: Al-Durdbays is the old man, burdened with worry, and the old woman is also called Durdbays; and he recited: A woman of many children, imposing, moving about, ... has become submissive, and the old man is Durdbays.

دردبت: خضعت وذلت

She became humble and submissive.

والدردبيس: الداهية.

And Al-Durdbays: the calamity.

قال ابن بري: شاهد الداهية قول جري الكاهلي: ولو جربتني في ذاك يوما ... رضيت، وقلت: أنت الدردبيس

Ibn al-Bari said: The evidence for 'calamity' is the saying of Juray al-Kahili: And if you had tested me in that one day ... you would have been pleased, and said: You are the calamity.

الدرداقس: عظم القفا، قيل فيه إنه أعجمي، قال الأصمعي: أحسبه روميا، قال: وهو طرف العظم الناتئ فوق القفا

Al-Dardāqis: the bone of the nape of the neck; it is said to be non-Arabic; Al-Asma'i said: I think it is Roman; he said: It is the prominent end of the bone above the nape.

من زال عن قصد السبيل، تزايلت ... بالسيف هامته عن الدرقاس

Whoever deviates from the right path, his head is separated by the sword from the back of his neck.