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شوظ

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes intense heat, flames, and burning, often associated with fire or the sun. It can refer to the visible aspect of fire, like flames without smoke, or the oppressive heat itself.

Derived headwords

الشَّوَاظnoun
  1. 1.
    flame without smokeboth

    The bright, intense flame of fire that is characterized by the absence of smoke.

  2. 2.
    intense heatboth

    The oppressive and burning heat, whether from fire or the sun.

  3. 3.
    piece of fireclassical

    A fragment or portion of fire, sometimes described as not containing any brass or mixed with other substances.

شَوَاظnoun
  1. 1.
    flame without smokeboth

    The bright, intense flame of fire that is characterized by the absence of smoke.

  2. 2.
    intense heatboth

    The oppressive and burning heat, whether from fire or the sun.

  3. 3.
    piece of fireclassical

    A fragment or portion of fire, sometimes described as not containing any brass or mixed with other substances.

Parallel reading

الشواظ والشواظ: اللهب الذي لا دخان فيه
Al-shawāẓ and al-shawāẓ: the flame that has no smoke in it.
أليس أبوك فينا كان قينا، ... لدى القينات، فسلا [فسلا] في الحفاظ؟ يمانيا يظل يشد كيرا، ... وينفخ دائبا لهب الشواظ
Was not your father among us a blacksmith, ... among the female blacksmiths, and he was negligent in his duty? A Yemeni who keeps working bellows, ... and constantly blowing the flame of the fire.
إن لهم من وقعنا أقياظا، ... ونار حرب تسعر الشواظا
Indeed, they have from our impact summers (i.e., periods of intense hardship), ... and a war fire that ignites the flames.
يرسل عليكما شواظ من نار ونحاس
He will send upon you both flames of fire and smoke.
وقيل: الشواظ قطعة من نار ليس فيها نحاس
And it was said: Al-shawāẓ is a piece of fire in which there is no brass.
وقيل: الشواظ لهب النار ولا يكون إلا من نار وشيء آخر يخلطه
And it was said: Al-shawāẓ is the flame of fire and it is only from fire and something else mixed with it.
أكثر القراء قرؤوا شواظ، وكسر الحسن الشين
Most of the reciters read it as shawāẓ, and Al-Hasan broke the shīn.
كما قالوا لجماعة البقر صوار وصوار
Just as they said for a herd of cattle ṣawār and ṣawār.
يقال لدخان النار شواظ وشواظ
The smoke of fire is called shawāẓ and shawāẓ.
ولحرها شواظ وشواظ
And its heat is shawāẓ and shawāẓ.
وحر الشمس شواظ [شواظ]
And the heat of the sun is shawāẓ [shawāẓ].
وأصابني شواظ من الشمس
And I was afflicted by the heat of the sun.