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سنبك

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

The root 'سنبك' primarily relates to the tip, edge, or beginning of something, often with connotations of roughness or remoteness. It is frequently used to describe parts of an animal's hoof, the extremity of a sword, or distant, barren lands.

Derived headwords

السُّنْبُكnoun
  1. 1.
    tip of the hoofboth

    The tip and sides of an animal's hoof.

  2. 2.
    barren landclassical

    A remote, barren, or infertile region of land, likened to the rough part of a hoof.

  3. 3.
    tip of a sword's hiltclassical

    The extremity or decorative end of a sword's hilt.

  4. 4.
    type of gaitclassical

    A specific manner of running or moving, characterized by speed and perhaps a bounding motion.

  5. 5.
    beginning of rainclassical

    The initial onset or first drops of rainfall.

  6. 6.
    beginning of somethingclassical

    The commencement or earliest part of any affair or period.

  7. 7.
    growth/tumorclassical

    A swelling, growth, or tumor, specifically mentioned as a type of affliction.

سَنَابِكnoun
  1. 1.
    hoovesboth

    The plural form of 'سنبك', referring to the hooves of animals.

  2. 2.
    remote landsclassical

    The plural of 'سنبك', referring to distant or barren regions of the earth.

Parallel reading

السنبك: طرف الحافر وجانباه من قدم، وجمعه سنابك.
The sunbuk: the tip of the hoof and its sides of a foot, and its plural is sanābik.
تخرجكم الروم منها كفرا كفرا إلى سنبك من الأرض، قيل: وما ذاك السنبك؟ قال: حسمى جذام
The Romans will drive you out of it, unbeliever after unbeliever, to a sunbuk of the land. It was asked: And what is that sunbuk? He said: A barren affliction.
وأصله من سنبك الحافر فشبه الأرض التي يخرجون إليها بالسنبك في غلظه وقلة خيره.
And its origin is from the sunbuk of the hoof, so the land to which they are driven out is likened to the sunbuk in its roughness and lack of goodness.
أنه كره أن يطلب الرزق في سنابك الأرض أي أطرافها كأنه كره أن يسافر السفر الطويل في طلب المال.
That he disliked seeking livelihood in the sanābik of the earth, meaning its extremities, as if he disliked undertaking a long journey in pursuit of wealth.
وسنبك السيف: طرف حليته، وفي التهذيب: طرف نعله.
And the sunbuk of the sword: the tip of its hilt; and in Al-Tahdhib: the tip of its sole.
والسنبك: ضرب من العدو؛ قال ساعدة بن جؤية يصف أروية: وظلت تعدى من سريع وسنبك، ... تصدى بأجواز اللهوب وتركد
And the sunbuk: a type of running; Sa'idah ibn Ju'ayyah said, describing a mountain goat: And she kept running, fast and with a sunbuk, ... stopping in the midst of the plains and resting.
والسنبك: حسمى جذام.
And the sunbuk: a barren affliction.
وسنبك كل شيء: أوله.
And the sunbuk of everything: its beginning.
يقال: كان ذلك على سنبك فلان أي على عهد ولايته وأولها.
It is said: That was during the sunbuk of so-and-so, meaning during his reign and its beginning.
وأصابنا سنبك السماء: أول غيثتها؛ قال الأسود بن يعفر: ولقد أرجل لمتي بعشية ... للشرب، قبل سنابك المرتاد
And the sunbuk of the sky struck us: its first rain; Al-Aswad ibn Ya'fur said: And I watered my she-camel in the evening ... for drinking, before the first drops of the sought-after rain.
ابن الأعرابي: السنبك الخراج.
Ibn Al-A'rabi: The sunbuk is a growth/tumor.