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دبش

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of locusts consuming vegetation, leading to a state of being eaten or stripped bare. It extends to describe a large, destructive flood and the remnants or residue of something.

Derived headwords

دَبَشَverb
  1. 1.
    to eat vegetationboth

    Locusts consume the herbage or vegetation of the land.

دَبْشًاnoun
  1. 1.
    eating of vegetationboth

    The act of locusts consuming the herbage of the land.

دَبَّاشadjective
  1. 1.
    great, sweepingclassical

    Describes a flood that is large and sweeps away everything in its path.

الدَّبَشnoun
  1. 1.
    husks, remnantsclassical

    Refers to the husks or the remnants of something, particularly after consumption.

  2. 2.
    eatingclassical

    The act of eating or consumption.

دَبَشَverb
  1. 1.
    to eat what is on itclassical

    To eat the vegetation or plants that are on the land.

مَدْبُوشadjective
  1. 1.
    eaten by locustsclassical

    Describes land whose plants have been eaten by locusts.

مَدْبُوشَةadjective
  1. 1.
    eaten by locustsclassical

    Describes land whose plants have been eaten by locusts.

Parallel reading

دبش الجراد في الأرض يدبشها دبشا: أكل كلأها.
Locusts attacked the land, consuming its herbage with a consuming.
وسيل دباش: عظيم يجرف كل شيء.
A great flood, sweeping away everything.
الدبش القشر والأكل.
The remnants are the husks and the eating.
دبشت الأرض دبشا إذا أكل ما عليها من النبات
You have consumed the land with consumption if it ate what was on it of vegetation.
جاؤوا بأخراهم على خنشوش، ... من مهوئن بالدبى مدبوش
They came with their rear on a resting place, ... from a wide expanse of land eaten by locusts.
المدبوش: الذي أكل الجراد نبته.
The one eaten by locusts is that whose plants were consumed by locusts.
وأرض مدبوشة إذا أكل الجراد نبتها.
And a land eaten by locusts if the locusts consumed its vegetation.