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حترش

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes smallness in body or stature, often combined with a sense of quickness, agility, or spiritedness. It can also refer to a gathering or a commotion, and is used as a tribal or personal name.

Derived headwords

الحترشnoun
  1. 1.
    small-bodied, spiritedboth

    Describes someone who is small in body and spirited or quick-tempered.

الحتروشnoun
  1. 1.
    small-bodied, spiritedboth

    Describes someone who is small in body and spirited or quick-tempered.

  2. 2.
    shortboth

    Specifically refers to someone who is short in stature.

حتروشadjective
  1. 1.
    agile, quickclassical

    Used to describe a boy who is light, agile, and energetic.

حترشةnoun
  1. 1.
    sound of eatingclassical

    Refers to the sound made by locusts when they are eating.

تحترشverb
  1. 1.
    to gatherclassical

    The people gathered or assembled together.

  2. 2.
    to pursueclassical

    To run or move quickly after someone, often with the intent to catch them.

حترشname
  1. 1.
    male nameboth

    A given name for a man.

  2. 2.
    tribal nameboth

    The name of a clan or tribe, specifically a branch of Banu Mudarris, who are from Banu 'Uqayl.

Parallel reading

الحترش والحتروش: الصغير الجسم النزق مع صلابة.
Al-Hatrash and Al-Hatroush: The small-bodied, spirited one with toughness.
يقال للغلام الخفيف النشيط حتروش.
It is said of a boy who is light and energetic: hatroush.
الحتروش القصير.
Al-Hatroush is short.
ما أحسن حتارش الصبي أي حركاته.
How beautiful are the boy's hatarish, meaning his movements.
وسمعت للجراد حترشة إذا سمعت صوت أكله.
And I heard a hatrash from the locusts, meaning the sound of their eating.
وتحترش القوم: حشدوا.
And the people gathered: they assembled.
يقال: حشد القوم وحشكوا وتحترشوا بمعنى واحد.
It is said: The people gathered, they assembled, and they hatarashu, all with the same meaning.
ويقال: سعى فلان بين القوم فتحترشوا عليه فلم يدركوه أي سعوا وعدوا عليه.
And it is said: So-and-so went between the people, and they hatarashu against him, meaning they ran and moved against him, and he did not catch them.
حترش: من أسماء الرجال.
Hatrash: is among the names of men.
وبنو حترش. بطن من بني مضرس وهم من بني عقيل.
And Banu Hatrash: a clan from Banu Mudarris, and they are from Banu 'Uqayl.