غربل

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the action of sifting or straining, often with a sieve, to separate finer elements from coarser ones. It extends metaphorically to actions of selection, refinement, destruction, and dispersal, implying a process of separation or intense action.

Derived headwords

غربَلَverb

1.
to siftboth
To sift something, such as flour, using a sieve to separate fine particles from coarse ones.
2.
to cut upclassical
To cut something into pieces.
3.
to go aboutclassical
To travel or move around extensively in the land.
4.
to killclassical
To kill or destroy people, often in a thorough or grinding manner.
5.
to investigateclassical
To thoroughly investigate or examine the condition of people in a place, separating the good from the bad.

غربلت الدقيق وغيره — I sifted flour and other things.

غَرْبَالnoun

1.
sieveboth
A sieve, a well-known tool used for sifting.
2.
drumclassical
A type of drum, likened to a sieve in its round shape.

أعلنوا النكاح واضربوا عليه بالغربال — Announce marriages and beat the drum for them (referring to the daff).

مُغَرْبَلadjective

1.
siftedclassical
Selected or refined as if by sifting, implying purity or excellence.
2.
inferiorclassical
Inferior or base, as if having passed through a sieve and only the dregs remain.
3.
killed and bloatedclassical
A slain person, described as bloated.
4.
dispersedclassical
Scattered or separated.

المغربل: المنتقى كأنه نقي بالغربال — The selected one, as if purified by the sieve.

المغربل من الرجال: الدون كأنه خرج من الغربال — The inferior man, as if he came out of the sieve.

غَرْبَلَةnoun

1.
siftingboth
The act of sifting or straining.
2.
destructionclassical
A thorough destruction or grinding down of people.
3.
selectionclassical
The act of selecting or picking out, especially of leaders to be killed.

كيف بكم إذا كنتم في زمان يغربل الناس فيه غربلة — What will become of you when you are in a time when people are sifted thoroughly?

غَرْبِيلnoun

1.
sparrowclassical
A type of bird, possibly a sparrow.

كأنكم الغربيل — As if you were the sparrow.

Parallel reading

غربل الشيء: نخله.

To sift something: to sieve it.

والغربال: ما غربل به، معروف،

And the sieve: that by which one sifts, it is well-known,

غربلت الدقيق وغيره.

I sifted flour and other things.

ويقال: غربله إذا قطعه؛

And it is said: to cut it up if one cuts it;

فلولا الله والمهر المفدى، ... لرحت وأنت غربال الإهاب

Were it not for God and the ransomed one, ... you would have gone and you would have been a sieve of skin (meaning torn apart).

فإنه وضع الغربال مكان مخرق، ولولا ذلك لما جاز أن يجعل الغربال في موضع المغربل.

For he placed the sieve in the place of a torn garment; and were it not for that, it would not be permissible to place the sieve in the position of the sifted one.

والمغربل: المنتقى كأنه نقي بالغربال.

And the selected one: the chosen one, as if purified by the sieve.

وفي الحديث : كيف بكم إذا كنتم في زمان يغربل الناس فيه غربلة أي يذهب خيارهم ويبقى أرذالهم؛

And in the Hadith: What will become of you when you are in a time when people are sifted thoroughly, meaning their best go and their worst remain;

والمغربل من الرجال: الدون كأنه خرج من الغربال،

And the inferior man: the base one, as if he came out of the sieve,

وقيل في تفسير الحديث : يذهب خيارهم بالموت والقتل وتبقى أرذالهم.

And it was said in explanation of the Hadith: Their best go by death and killing, and their worst remain.

الجعدي: غربل فلان في الأرض إذا ذهب فيها.

Al-Ja'di: So-and-so went about in the land if he traveled in it.

وفي الحديث : أعلنوا النكاح واضربوا عليه بالغربال ؛

And in the Hadith: Announce marriages and beat the drum for them (referring to the daff);

عنى بالغربال الدف، شبه الغربال به في استدارته.

He meant by the sieve the daff (drum), likening the sieve to it in its roundness.

وغربلهم: قتلهم وطحنهم.

And to sift them: to kill them and grind them.

والمغربل: المقتول المنتفخ؛

And the slain one: the killed and bloated one;

وترى الملوك حوله مغربله،

And you see the kings around him slain and bloated,

وقيل: عنى بالمغربلة أنه ينتقي السادة فيقتلهم فهو على هذا من الأول.

And it was said: He meant by the sifting that he selects the leaders and kills them, so it is from the first meaning.

وقال شمر: المغربل المفرق، غربله أي فرقه.

And Shamir said: The dispersed one, to sift him means to disperse him.

وفي حديث مكحول: ثم أتيت الشأم فغربلتها أي كشفت حال من بها وخبرتهم، كأنه جعلهم في غربال ففرق بين الجيد والرديء.

And in the Hadith of Makhl: Then I came to Syria and I sifted it, meaning I revealed the condition of those in it and informed myself of them, as if he put them in a sieve and distinguished between the good and the bad.

وفي حديث ابن الزبير: أتيتموني فاتحي أفواهكم كأنكم الغربيل ؛

And in the Hadith of Ibn Al-Zubayr: You came to me with your mouths open as if you were the sparrow;

قيل: هو العصفور.

It was said: it is the sparrow.