عفقس

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes someone with a bad or difficult disposition, often characterized by rudeness, ill-temper, and unpleasantness. It extends to the idea of someone being ill-bred or of low character.

Derived headwords

العَفَنْقَسnoun

1.
ill-bred personclassical
A person whose maternal and paternal grandmothers, and wife, are non-Arabs (foreigners).

العَفَنْقَسnoun

1.
ill-tempered personboth
A person of bad character, rude, and overbearing towards others.

العَقَنْفَسnoun

1.
ill-tempered personboth
A person of bad character, rude, and overbearing towards others.

عَفَنْقَسadjective

1.
ill-temperedboth
Describing someone with a difficult or unpleasant disposition.

عَفَقَسَهُverb

1.
to make ill-temperedboth
To make someone ill-tempered or to cause them to exhibit bad behavior.

عَقْفَسَهُverb

1.
to make ill-temperedboth
To make someone ill-tempered or to cause them to exhibit bad behavior.

اعْفَنْقَسَverb

1.
to become ill-temperedboth
To become a person of difficult or unpleasant disposition.

عَفَنْقَسٌ خُلُقٌnoun

1.
difficult dispositionclassical
A disposition that is difficult to deal with or to make conform.

عَفَنْقَسٌadjective

1.
difficultclassical
Describing a disposition or character that is hard to manage or accept.

عَفَنْقَسٌ فَلَنْقَسٌadjective

1.
base and ill-temperedclassical
A compound description for a person who is base, mean, and ill-tempered.

Parallel reading

العفنقس: الذي جدتاه لأبيه وأمه وامرأته عجميات.

Al-'afanqas: one whose grandmothers on his father's and mother's sides, and his wife, are foreigners.

والعفنقس والعقنفس، جميعا: السيء الخلق المتطاول على الناس.

And al-'afanqas and al-'aqnafas, both: the ill-tempered one who is overbearing towards people.

وقد عفقسه وعقفسه: أساء خلقه.

And he made him ill-tempered and he made him ill-tempered: meaning he made his disposition bad.

والعفنقس: العسر الأخلاق،

And al-'afanqas: the one of difficult disposition,

وقد اعفنقس الرجل،

And the man became ill-tempered,

وخلق عفنقس؛

And a difficult disposition;

إذا أراد خلقا عفنقسا،

If he intended a difficult disposition,

أقره الناس، وإن تفجسا

People accepted it from him, even if it was difficult to bear.

قال: عفنقس خلق عسير لا يستقيم، سلم له ذلك «4».

He said: 'Afanqas is a difficult disposition that cannot be straightened; it is accepted from him.'

ويقال: ما أدري ما الذي عفقسه وعقفسه

And it is said: 'I do not know what made him ill-tempered and what made him ill-tempered'

أي ما الذي أساء خلقه بعد ما كان حسن الخلق.

Meaning, what made his disposition bad after it was good.

ويقال: رجل عفنقس فلنقس،

And it is said: 'A man is 'afanqas fulanaqas,'

وهو اللئيم.

And he is the base one.