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سربل

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns garments, particularly shirts and armor, and the act of wearing or clothing someone in them. It also extends to a rich, fatty stew.

Derived headwords

سِرْبَالnoun
  1. 1.
    Shirtboth

    A garment worn on the upper body, typically a shirt or tunic.

  2. 2.
    Armorboth

    A protective covering, such as a coat of mail or a cuirass, worn in combat.

  3. 3.
    Garmentclassical

    Anything worn as clothing.

  4. 4.
    Caliphateclassical

    Metaphorically refers to the office or position of the Caliphate.

تَسَرْبَلَverb
  1. 1.
    To wearboth

    To put on or wear a garment.

  2. 2.
    To be clothedboth

    To be dressed or covered in something.

سَرْبَلَverb
  1. 1.
    To clotheboth

    To dress someone in a garment.

  2. 2.
    To put onboth

    To cause someone to wear a garment.

سَرْبَلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Rich stewclassical

    A thick, fatty stew, often made with bread.

  2. 2.
    Fatty brothclassical

    A rich and oily broth.

سَرَابِيلnoun
  1. 1.
    Shirtsboth

    Plural of 'sirbal', referring to shirts or tunics.

  2. 2.
    Armorboth

    Plural of 'sirbal', referring to coats of mail or armor.

Parallel reading

السربال: القميص والدرع
The sirbal: the shirt and the armor.
وقيل: كل ما لبس فهو سربال
And it was said: everything worn is a sirbal.
وقد تسربل به وسربله إياه
And he wore it, and he clothed him in it.
وسربلته فتسربل أي ألبسته السربال
And I clothed him, so he wore it, meaning I dressed him in the sirbal.
لا أخلع سربالا سربلنيه الله تعالى
I will not remove a garment that God Almighty has clothed me with.
السربال: القميص وكنى به عن الخلافة
The sirbal: the shirt, and it is used metaphorically for the Caliphate.
ويجمع على سرابيل
And it is pluralized as sarabil.
النوائح عليهن سرابيل من قطران
The wailing women have upon them garments of pitch.
وتطلق السرابيل على الدروع
And sarabil are applied to armor.
شم العرانين أبطال لبوسهم ... من نسج داود، في الهيجا، سرابيل
Noble of lineage, heroes, their attire... woven by David, in battle, are armors.
سرابيل تقيكم الحر
Garments that protect you from the heat.
إنها القمص تقي الحر والبرد، فاكتفى بذكر الحر كأن ما وقى الحر وقى البرد
They are shirts that protect from heat and cold; mentioning heat alone suffices as what protects from heat also protects from cold.
وسرابيل تقيكم بأسكم
And garments that protect you from your might (i.e., from each other).
فهي الدروع
They are the armors.
السربلة: الثريد الكثير الدسم
The sarbalah: the very fatty thareed (a type of stew).
السربلة ثريدة قد رويت دسما
The sarbalah is a thareed that has been saturated with fat.