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شيش

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes dates that are immature or have underdeveloped pits. It also refers to a specific type of immature date.

Derived headwords

الشِّيشاءnoun
  1. 1.
    immature datesclassical

    Dates that have not fully matured, specifically referring to those whose pits (nawa) have not hardened.

شيشاءnoun
  1. 1.
    immature datesclassical

    A variant term for immature dates, characterized by unhardened pits.

شِيصnoun
  1. 1.
    immature datesclassical

    A term for dates that are unripe or underdeveloped, particularly those with soft pits.

شِيصاءnoun
  1. 1.
    immature datesclassical

    Another term for unripe or immature dates, similar to 'shiyṣ'.

Parallel reading

يقال للتمر الذي لا يشتد نواه الشيشاء
It is said of dates whose pits do not harden: al-shishāʼ.
يا لك من تمر، ومن شيشاء، ... ينشب في المسعل واللهاء
Oh, what dates, and what shishāʼ, ... that gets stuck in the throat and uvula!
الشيش الشيشاء لغة في الشيص والشيصاء
Al-shish, al-shishāʼ is a dialectal variant for al-shīṣ and al-shīṣāʼ.
ويروى اللهاء، بكسر اللام، جمع لها مثل أضى وإضاء جمع أضاة
And it is narrated as al-luhāʼ, with a kasra on the lām, a plural of lahā, like aḍā and iḍāʼ, a plural of aḍāh.