شظف

Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

This root primarily denotes hardship, austerity, and dryness, particularly in the context of living conditions and sustenance. It extends to describe physical harshness in objects like wood and land, and can also refer to specific physical conditions or actions.

Derived headwords

الشَّظَفnoun

1.
hardship of lifeboth
The austerity and difficulty of living, characterized by scarcity and struggle.
2.
dryness of breadclassical
Specifically refers to dry, stale bread.
3.
prevention from somethingclassical
The act of being prevented or abstaining from something.

شَظِفَverb

1.
to live austerelyboth
To experience hardship and difficulty in one's livelihood.
2.
to be dry and hardclassical
Describing something, like bread, as being dry and hard.

شَظَفًاnoun

1.
hardship of lifeboth
The state of living in hardship and difficulty.

شَظِفٌadjective

1.
austereboth
Describing a person who lives a life of hardship and austerity.

شَظَافnoun

1.
hardshipclassical
A variant form of 'shazaf', referring to hardship and narrowness.

شَظَافَةnoun

1.
dryness and hardnessclassical
The state of being dry and hard, especially for trees that have not received enough water.

شَظِيفٌadjective

1.
dry and hard (tree)classical
Describing a tree that has not received sufficient water, making it rough and hard, yet still retaining some moisture.

شَظِفَ الشَّجَرُverb

1.
tree became dry and hardclassical
When a tree does not get enough water, causing it to become rough and hard without losing its moisture.

شَظْفَةadjective

1.
dry and rough (land)classical
Describing land that is rough and dry.

فَحْلٌ شَظِفُ الخِلَاطphrase

1.
male camel that mixes intenselyclassical
A male camel that vigorously mixes with female camels.

الشَّظَفnoun

1.
separation of flesh from nailclassical
The detachment of flesh from the root of a fingernail or toenail.

الشَّظَفnoun

1.
crushing testiclesclassical
The act of crushing the testicles between two sticks and tying them until they wither.

الشَّظَفnoun

1.
split in a stickclassical
A split or crack in a wooden stick.

شَظَّفَ السَّهْمverb

1.
arrow entered between skin and fleshclassical
When an arrow penetrates the skin and lodges between it and the underlying flesh.

Parallel reading

الشَّظَف: يبس العيش وشدته

Al-shazaf: dryness of livelihood and its hardship.

ولقد أصبت من المعيشة لذة، ... وأصبت من شظف الأمور شدادها

And I have indeed attained from living a pleasure, ... and I have attained from the hardships of matters their severities.

الشَّظَف: الشدة والضيق مثل الضفف، وجمعه شظاف

Al-shazaf: severity and narrowness, like al-dafaf, and its plural is shazaf.

وراج لين تغلب عن شظاف

And a soft wind blew from the direction of Taghlib, from a place of hardship.

وأرى أن الشظاف لغة في الشظف وأن بيت الكميت قد روي بالفتح

And I think that al-shazaf is a dialectal variant of al-shazaf, and that Al-Kumait's verse has been narrated with the fath.

وقد شظف شظفا، فهو شظف

And he lived austerely, a life of hardship, and he is austere.

وفي النوادر: الشظف يابس الخبز

And in the al-Nawadir: Al-shazaf is dry bread.

والشَّظَف: أن يشظف الإنسان عن الشيء يمنعه

And al-shazaf: is for a person to abstain from something, preventing him.

أنه، صلى الله عليه وسلم، لم يشبع من طعام إلا على شظف

That he, peace be upon him, did not eat his fill of food except in a state of austerity.

الشَّظَف، بالتحريك: شدة العيش وضيقه

Al-shazaf, with harakah: severity and narrowness of livelihood.

وشظف الشجر، بالضم؛ يشظف شظافة، فهو شظيف: لم يصب من الماء ريه فخشن وصلب من غير أن تذهب ندوته

And the tree became shazif, with damma; it becomes shazaf, shazafah, and it is shazif: it did not receive its fill of water, so it became rough and hard without losing its moisture.

وأرض شظفة إذا كانت خشنة يابسة

And a shazifah land if it is rough and dry.

وانعاج عودي كالشظيف الأخشن، ... بعد اقورار الجلد والتشنن

And my wood bent like the roughest shazif, ... after the skin had dried and tightened.

وفحل شظف الخلاط: يخالط الإبل خلاطا شديدا

And a camel that mixes intensely: it mixes with the she-camels a strong mixing.

والشَّظَف: انتكاث اللحم عن أصل إكليل الظفر

And al-shazaf: is the separation of flesh from the root of the nail.

والشَّظَف: أن تضم الخصيتين بين عودين وتشدهما بعقب حتى تذبلا

And al-shazaf: is to place the testicles between two sticks and tie them tightly until they wither.

والشَّظَف: شقة العصا؛ عن ابن الأعرابي

And al-shazaf: is a split in a stick; from Ibn al-A'rabi.

أنت أرحت الحي من أم الصبي، ... كبداء مثل الشظف أو شر العصي

You have relieved the tribe from the mother of the child, ... a large-bodied one like a split stick or the worst of sticks.

وشظف السهم إذا دخل بين الجلد واللحم

And the arrow became shazif if it entered between the skin and the flesh.