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عسقف

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root pertains to the act of crying or refraining from crying, specifically focusing on the inability to shed tears or the cessation of weeping. It describes a state of emotional dryness or a physical inability to cry.

Derived headwords

العَسْقَفَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Cessation of cryingclassical

    The opposite of crying; it is the dryness of the eye from weeping, either when one desires to cry or intends to, but is unable to, or when one has cried and then stopped, their eye becoming dry and unable to shed more tears.

عَسْقَفَverb
  1. 1.
    To cease cryingclassical

    To become dry of eye and unable to cry, either after having wept or when intending to weep but being unable to.

Parallel reading

العسقفة: نقيض البكاء
Al-'asqafah: the opposite of crying.
وقيل: هو جمود العين عن البكاء إذ أراده أو هم به فلم يقدر عليه
And it is said: it is the dryness of the eye from crying when one desires it or intends it but is unable to.
وقيل: بكى فلان وعسقف فلان إذا جمدت عينه فلم يقدر على البكاء
And it is said: 'So-and-so cried, and so-and-so 'asqafa' (ceased crying) when his eye became dry and he was unable to cry.'