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هلض

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to describe the act of forcefully extracting or uprooting something, akin to pulling a plant from the ground. It is noted as a rare or possibly unverified term, primarily attributed to the Tayy dialect.

Derived headwords

هَلَضَverb
  1. 1.
    to uprootclassical

    To extract something forcefully, similar to how a plant is pulled from the earth.

هَلْضًاnoun
  1. 1.
    uprootingclassical

    The act of forcefully extracting something, as in uprooting a plant.

Parallel reading

هَلَضَ الشيء يهلضه هلضا
He uprooted the thing, he uproots it, an uprooting.
انتزعه كالنبت تنتزعه من الأرض
He extracted it like a plant is extracted from the ground.
ذكر أبو مالك أنه سمعه من أعراب طيء
Abu Malik mentioned that he heard it from the Bedouins of Tayy.
وليس بثبت
And it is not confirmed.