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هلف

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes something large, heavy, and abundant, often associated with physical attributes like thick hair or age. It can refer to a large beard, an old or decrepit person or animal, or something generally slow and cumbersome.

Derived headwords

الهلوفةnoun
  1. 1.
    bushy beardboth

    A large, thick, and abundant beard with spreading hair.

  2. 2.
    old womanclassical

    An elderly woman, often implying decrepitude.

الهلوفnoun
  1. 1.
    bushy beardboth

    A large, thick, and abundant beard with spreading hair.

  2. 2.
    old, decrepit manboth

    An old, aged, and decrepit man.

  3. 3.
    old, shaggy camelboth

    An old, large camel with abundant wool/hair.

  4. 4.
    liarclassical

    A person who is a liar.

  5. 5.
    slow, heavy personclassical

    A slow, sluggish, and heavy person who lacks capability or effectiveness.

هلفوفadjective
  1. 1.
    hairyboth

    A man with abundant hair on his head and beard.

  2. 2.
    heavy and coarseclassical

    Describing someone as heavy, coarse, and having a large beard.

  3. 3.
    slow and incapableclassical

    Describing someone as slow, sluggish, and lacking in ability.

Parallel reading

اللحية الضخمة الكثيرة الشعر المنتشرة.
The large, abundant beard with spreading hair.
المسن الكبير الكثير الوبر
The old, large one with abundant wool/hair.
وهو من الرجال الشيخ القديم الهرم المسن
And he is, among men, the old, ancient, decrepit, aged one.
وإذا كبر الرجل وهرم فهو الهلوف.
And when a man grows old and becomes decrepit, he is al-halūf.
ورجل هلفوف: كثير شعر الرأس واللحية.
And a man is halafūf: having abundant hair on his head and beard.
الهلوف الثقيل الجافي العظيم اللحية.
Al-halūf: the heavy, coarse one with a large beard.
الهلوف الثقيل البطيء الذي لا غناء عنده
Al-halūf: the heavy, slow one who has no capability.
أشبه أبا أمك، أو أشبه عمل ... ولا تكونن كهلوف وكل، يصبح في مضجعه قد انجدل
Be like your mother's father, or like Amal... And do not be like al-halūf and his brother, who wakes up in his bed having collapsed.
هلوفة كأنها جوالق، لها فضول ولها بنائق
A halūfah, as if it were a sack, it has excess and it has folds.
والهلوفة: العجوز
And al-halūfah: the old woman.
تأتك من هلوفة أو معصر
There will come to you from an old woman or a young woman.
يصفهم بالفجور وأنك متى أردت ذلك منهم فاقرب من بيوتهم واصفر تأتك منهم الكبيرة والصغيرة.
He describes them as immoral, and that when you want that from them, approach their houses and whistle, and the old and the young will come to you from them.