عضل

Root entry · 28 derived lemmas

The root عضل primarily denotes concepts of obstruction, difficulty, and tightness. It extends to physical attributes like muscularity and stoutness, as well as abstract notions of hardship, constraint, and severe illness. It also encompasses the act of withholding or preventing, particularly in marital contexts.

Derived headwords

العَضَلَةnoun

1.
muscleboth
A thick nerve bundle with flesh, like that of the leg or upper arm.
2.
stout womanclassical
A stout, thick-set woman.

العَضِيلةnoun

1.
muscle bundleclassical
A thick nerve bundle with flesh.

عَضِلَverb

1.
to be muscularclassical
To be muscular or have many muscles.
2.
to be difficultclassical
To be difficult or problematic.

عَضِلٌadjective

1.
muscularclassical
Having many muscles; muscular.
2.
difficultclassical
Difficult, problematic.
3.
uglyclassical
Severely ugly or repulsive.

عَضِلَverb

1.
to strike (muscle)classical
To strike someone's muscle.

مُعْضَلadjective

1.
well-builtclassical
Well-built, strong in creation.
2.
difficultboth
Difficult, problematic, hard to resolve.
3.
severe (illness)both
A severe, incurable illness.

عَضَلَverb

1.
to prevent (a woman from marrying)both
To prevent a woman from marrying her suitor, especially unjustly.
2.
to withholdboth
To withhold sustenance or good treatment from a wife to force her to seek divorce.

عَضَّلَverb

1.
to prevent unjustlyboth
To prevent someone from marrying their spouse unjustly.
2.
to make difficultclassical
To make a matter difficult or constricted.

تَعْضِيلnoun

1.
prevention (of marriage)both
The act of unjustly preventing a woman from marrying her suitor.
2.
making difficultclassical
The act of making a matter difficult or constricted.

عَضَّلَverb

1.
to make difficultclassical
To make a matter difficult, constricted, or impossible.

تَعَضَّلَverb

1.
to become difficultclassical
To become difficult, severe, or intractable.

أَعْضَلَverb

1.
to cause difficultyclassical
To cause a matter to become difficult or problematic.
2.
to overcomeclassical
To overcome or overpower someone.
3.
to have difficult childbirthboth
For a woman to experience difficult childbirth.

مُعْضِلadjective

1.
difficultboth
A difficult or problematic matter.
2.
severe (illness)both
A severe, intractable illness.

داءٌ عَضالnoun phrase

1.
incurable diseaseboth
A severe, intractable disease that baffles physicians.

عَضَلَةnoun

1.
calamityclassical
A great calamity or severe problem.

عَضِلadjective

1.
severeclassical
Severe, difficult, or problematic.

مُعْضِلَةnoun

1.
difficultyboth
A difficult situation, a predicament.
2.
calamityclassical
A severe hardship or calamity.

عَضَّلَverb

1.
to be exhaustedclassical
To be exhausted from walking, riding, or any work.

عَضَّلَverb

1.
to become difficultclassical
For a matter to become severe, difficult, and intractable.

أَعْضَلَverb

1.
to be difficultclassical
For a matter to be difficult and intractable.

مُعْضِلadjective

1.
unresolvableclassical
A matter whose direction or solution is not apparent.

المُعْضِلاتnoun

1.
hardshipsclassical
Severe hardships and difficulties.

عَضَلَverb

1.
to be difficult (childbirth)both
For a child to be stuck during childbirth, partially emerging but not fully.

عَضَّلَverb

1.
to be stuck (childbirth)classical
For a child to be stuck in the birth canal, neither exiting nor entering.

اعْضَأَلَّتverb

1.
to have many branchesclassical
For a tree to have numerous and densely intertwined branches.

العَضَلnoun

1.
ratclassical
A rat.

العَضَلname

1.
tribe nameclassical
A tribe from the lineage of Kinana.

بَنُو عَضِيلةname

1.
clan nameclassical
A clan or lineage.

Parallel reading

كل عصبة معها لحم غليظ.

Every nerve bundle with thick flesh.

فهو عضل وعضل إذا كان كثير العضلات؛

He is muscular if he has many muscles;

أنه كان معضلا أي موثق الخلق،

That he was well-built, meaning strong in creation,

كل لحمة غليظة منتبرة مثل لحم الساق والعضد،

Every thick, prominent piece of flesh like that of the leg and upper arm,

ساق عضلة ضخمة.

A muscular, massive leg.

المكتنزة السمجة.

The stout, thick-set one.

وعضل المرأة عن الزوج: حبسها.

And to prevent a woman from her husband: to detain her.

فلا تعضلوهن أن ينكحن أزواجهن ؛

So do not prevent them from marrying their husbands;

وهو أن يضارها ولا يحسن عشرتها ليضطرها بذلك إلى الافتداء منه بمهرها الذي أمهرها،

Which is to harm her and not treat her well, to force her thereby to ransom herself from him with her dowry that he gave her,

زوجتك امرأة فعضلتها ؛

You married a woman and then you prevented her (from her rights);

عضل عليه في أمره تعضيلا: ضيق من ذلك وحال بينه وبين ما يريد ظلما.

To obstruct someone in his affair unjustly: to constrict it and stand between him and what he wants unjustly.

وعضل بهم المكان: ضاق.

And the place became constricted for them: it became narrow.

وعضلت الأرض بأهلها إذا ضاقت بهم لكثرتهم؛

And the land became constricted for its people if it became narrow for them due to their abundance;

وعضلت المرأة بولدها تعضيلا إذا نشب الولد فخرج بعضه ولم يخرج بعض فبقي معترضا،

And a woman's labor became difficult with her child if the child got stuck and part of it emerged but not the rest, remaining transverse,

عسر عليها ولاده،

Her childbirth became difficult,

وإذا الأمور أهم غب نتاجها، ... يسرت كل معضل ومطرق

And when matters are difficult after their outcome, ... every difficult and stuck matter is made easy

المعصل، بالتشديد، السهم الذي يلتوي إذا رمي به؛

The twisted one (with emphasis), the arrow that twists when shot;

هو المعضل، بالضاد المعجمة، من عضلت الدجاجة إذا التوت البيضة في جوفها.

It is the difficult one, with the emphatic 'dhad', from a hen whose egg twisted in her belly.

والمعضلة أيضا: التي يعسر عليها ولدها حتى يموت؛

And the difficult one (female) is also: she whose childbirth is difficult until the child dies;

إذا نشب بيضها:

When her eggs get stuck:

قطاة مطرق وامرأة معضل.

A partridge with stuck eggs and a woman with difficult childbirth.

عضلت المرأة بولدها إذا غص في فرجها فلم يخرج ولم يدخل.

A woman's labor became difficult with her child if it got stuck in her birth canal and did not come out nor go back in.

قد عضلها ولدها ،

Her child had caused her difficult childbirth,

أعضل بي الأمر إذا ضاقت عليك فيه الحيل.

The matter became difficult for me if stratagems became scarce for you in it.

وأعضله الأمر: غلبه.

And the matter overcame him: it defeated him.

داء عضال: شديد معي غالب؛

A severe, intractable disease: severe, overwhelming;

شفاها من الداء العضال الذي بها ... غلام، إذا هز القناة سقاها

He healed her from the severe disease she had ... a young man, when he shook the spear, he gave her water

أنزل بي القوم أمرا معضلا لا أقوم به ؛

The people brought upon me a difficult matter that I cannot handle;

وبها الداء العضال ؛

And in it is the severe disease;

هو المرض الذي يعجز الأطباء فلا دواء له.

It is the illness that physicians are unable to treat, for which there is no cure.

وتعضل الداء الأطباء وأعضلهم: غلبهم.

And the disease baffled the physicians and overcame them: it defeated them.

حلفة عضال: شديدة غير ذات مثنوية؛

A severe oath: strong and without retraction;

إني حلفت حلفة عضالا

Indeed, I swore a severe oath

فلان عضلة وعضل: شديد، داهية؛

So-and-so is strong and a formidable person: strong, a shrewd strategist;

فلان عضلة من العضل أي داهية من الدواهي.

So-and-so is a formidable person from the formidable ones, meaning a shrewd strategist among strategists.

والعضلة، بالضم: الداهية.

And 'al-'adalah, with damma, is: the calamity.

شيء عضل ومعضل: شديد القبح؛

Something is difficult and severe: severely ugly;

عضلت الناقة تعضيلا وبددت تبديدا وهو الإعياء من المشي والركوب وكل عمل.

The she-camel became exhausted from walking, riding, and any work.

عضل بي الأمر وأعضل بي وأعضلني: اشتد وغلظ واستغلق.

The matter became difficult for me and severe and intractable.

أمر معضل: لا يهتدى لوجهه.

A difficult matter: its direction or solution is not apparent.

والمعضلات: الشدائد.

And 'al-mu'dilat': hardships.

أعضل بي أهل الكوفة، ما يرضون بأمير ولا يرضاهم أمير ؛

The people of Kufa have made things difficult for me, they are not satisfied with a ruler, nor is a ruler satisfied with them;

هو من العضال وهو الأمر الشديد الذي لا يقوم به صاحبه، أي ضاقت علي الحيل في أمرهم وصعبت علي مداراتهم.

It is from 'al-'idal', which is the severe matter that its owner cannot handle, meaning stratagems became scarce for me in their affair and managing them became difficult for me.

قد أعضل الأمر، فهو معضل؛

The matter has become difficult, and it is difficult;

واحدة أعضلني داؤها، ... فكيف لو قمت على أربع؟

One of its diseases made me difficult, ... so what if I had to get on all fours?

لعضلت بهم؛ عضلت بهم أي ضاقت عليهم؛

It would have made things difficult for them; it made things difficult for them, meaning it constrained them;

معناه أنهم يضيقون بالجواب عنها ذرعا لإشكالها.

Its meaning is that they become exasperated by answering it due to its complexity.

أعوذ بالله من كل معضلة ليس لها أبو حسن ،

I seek refuge in Allah from every difficult matter that does not have Abu Hasan (Ali) for it,

معضلة ولا أبا حسن

A difficult matter, and no Abu Hasan

فأعضلت بالملكين فقالا يا رب إن عبدك قد قال مقالة لا ندري كيف نكتبها.

And it became difficult for the two angels, and they said: O Lord, your servant has said something, and we do not know how to write it.

واعضألت الشجرة: كثرت أغصانها واشتد التفافها؛

And the tree had many branches: its branches became numerous and intensely intertwined;

كأن زمامها أيم شجاع، ... ترأد في غصون معضئله

As if its reins were a brave woman, ... swaying in its intertwined branches

والعضل، بفتح الضاد والعين: الجرذ، والجمع عضلان.

And 'al-'adhal', with fatha on the dhad and 'ayn: the rat, and its plural is 'adhalan'.

العضل ذكر الفأر،

Al-'adhal is the male mouse,

العضل: موضع، وقيل: موضع بالبادية كثير الغياض.

Al-'Adhal: a place, and it is said: a place in the desert with many thickets.

عضل حي وبنو عضيلة: بطن.

Adhl is a tribe and Banu Adhilah is a clan.

عضل والديش حيان يقال لهما القارة وهم من كنانة.

Adhl and al-Dayish are two tribes called al-Qarah, and they are from Kinana.

وهو عضل بن الهون بن خزيمة أخو الديش، وهما القارة.

And he is Adhl ibn al-Hawn ibn Khuzaymah, brother of al-Dayish, and they are al-Qarah.