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شدف

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of cutting or separating pieces from something, and by extension, darkness or obscurity. It also extends to describing physical forms, shapes, and movements, particularly in animals, often implying a deviation or irregularity.

Derived headwords

الشَّدْفَةnoun
  1. 1.
    pieceboth

    A piece or fragment cut from something.

  2. 2.
    darknessclassical

    Darkness, especially of the night, similar to سدفة (sadfah).

شَدَفَverb
  1. 1.
    to cut into piecesclassical

    To cut something into pieces, piece by piece.

  2. 2.
    to darkenclassical

    To make dark or obscure, like the setting sun.

  3. 3.
    to be agileclassical

    To be agile or lively, especially a horse.

  4. 4.
    to be crookedclassical

    To be crooked or bent, referring to the head of a camel or a horse.

شَدْفًاnoun
  1. 1.
    cuttingclassical

    The act of cutting into pieces.

الشَّدْفnoun
  1. 1.
    darknessclassical

    Darkness, similar to الشدفة (al-shudfah).

  2. 2.
    figureclassical

    The figure or silhouette of anything.

  3. 3.
    crookednessclassical

    A twisting or bending of the head of a camel, considered a defect.

شَدْفnoun
  1. 1.
    figureclassical

    The figure or silhouette of anything.

  2. 2.
    crookednessclassical

    A twisting or bending of the head of a camel, considered a defect.

شُدُوفnoun
  1. 1.
    figuresclassical

    Plural of شدف (shadaf), referring to figures or silhouettes.

أَشْدَفَverb
  1. 1.
    to darkenclassical

    To become dark or obscure, to lower one's curtains.

أَشْدَفadjective
  1. 1.
    large-figuredclassical

    Describing a horse with a large figure or silhouette.

  2. 2.
    crooked-headedclassical

    Describing an animal with a crooked or twisted head.

  3. 3.
    arrogantclassical

    Describing an animal that is arrogant or haughty, with a head tilted sideways.

شَدْفَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    crookedclassical

    Describing a camel that leans to one side.

  2. 2.
    crooked bowclassical

    Referring to a crooked or bent Persian bow.

شِنْدُوفadjective
  1. 1.
    crookedclassical

    Similar to أشدف (ashdaf), referring to a crooked or bent form.

Parallel reading

الشدفة: القطعة من الشيء.
Al-shudfah: The piece from a thing.
وشدفه يشدفه شدفا: قطعه شدفة شدفة.
And he cut it, shadafah shadafah.
والشدفة والشدفة من الليل: كالسدفة، بالسين المهملة، وهي الظلمة.
And al-shudfah and al-shudfah of the night: is like al-sadfah, with the unpointed sin, and it is darkness.
خرجنا بسدفة وشدفة، وتفتح صدورهما، وهو السواد الباقي.
We went out in darkness and obscurity, and their initial letters are pronounced with a fatha, and it is the remaining blackness.
أسدف وأشدف إذا أرخى ستوره وأظلم.
Asadafa and ashadafa if he lowered his curtains and became dark.
والشدف: كالشدفة التي هي الظلمة؛ قال ابن سيده: والسين المهملة لغة؛ عن يعقوب.
And al-shadaf: is like al-shudfah which is darkness; Ibn Sidah said: and the unpointed sin is a dialect; from Ya'qub.
والشدف: شخص كل شيء؛ قال ابن بري وأنشد الأصمعي: وإذا أرى شدفا أمامي خلته ... رجلا، فجلت كأنني خذروف
And al-shadaf: is the figure of everything; Ibn Birri said and Al-Asma'i recited: And if I see a figure before me, I think it is ... a man, so I hasten as if I were a spinning top.
والجمع شدوف؛ قال ساعدة بن جؤية الهذلي: موكل بشدوف الصوم يرقبها ... من المغارب، مخطوف الحشى زرم
And the plural is shuduf; Sa'idah bin Ju'ayyah al-Hudhali said: Entrusted with the figures of the trees, watching them ... from the west, with a snatched entrail, lean.
وفرس أشدف: عظيم الشخص.
And an ashdaf horse: is of great figure.
والشدف: التواء رأس البعير، وهو عيب.
And al-shadaf: is the twisting of a camel's head, and it is a defect.
وناقة شدفاء: تميل في أحد شقيها.
And a shadfa' camel: leans to one of its sides.
والشدف في الخيل والإبل: إمالة الرأس من النشاط، الذكر أشدف.
And al-shadaf in horses and camels: is tilting the head from liveliness, the male is ashdaf.
وشدف الفرس شدفا إذا مرح، وهو أشدف، وشدف: مرح؛ قال العجاج: بذات لوث أو نباج أشدفا
And the horse shadafa shadafan if it was lively, and it is ashdaf, and shadafa: was lively; Al-'Ajjaj said: With a strong or broad-backed ashdaf one.
وفرس أشدف: وهو المائل في أحد شقيه بغيا؛ قال المرار: شندف أشدف ما ورعته، ... وإذا طوطئ طيار طمر
And an ashdaf horse: is the one that leans to one side out of arrogance; Al-Murar said: A shindaf, ashdaf one that you did not restrain, ... and when it is lowered, it leaps.
والشندوف مثل الأشدف، والنون زائدة فيه.
And al-shindoof is like al-ashdaf, and the noon is extra in it.
والأشدف: الذي في خده صعر، وشدف يشدف شدفا مثله.
And al-ashdaf: is the one who has a crookedness in his cheek, and shadafa yashdufu shadafan is similar.
يقال للقسي الفارسية شدف؛ واحدتها شدفاء.
The Persian bows are called shadaf; their singular is shadfa'.
يرمون عن شدف ؛ هي جمع شدفاء، وهي العوجاء يعني القوس الفارسية.
They shoot from shadaf; it is the plural of shadfa', and it means the crooked one, meaning the Persian bow.