وذل

Root entry · 16 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to agility, lightness, and swiftness, often applied to people or animals. It also extends to meanings of refined or polished substances, particularly silver, and by extension, good counsel or insight.

Derived headwords

الوذيلةnoun

1.
agile womanclassical
A woman described as energetic and nimble.
2.
mirrorclassical
A mirror, particularly in the dialect of the Hudhail tribe.
3.
silver ingotclassical
A bar or piece of refined silver.
4.
piece of silverclassical
A piece of silver, especially polished silver.
5.
piece of fatclassical
A piece of fat from the hump or tail of an animal, likened to a silver ingot.

الوذلةnoun

1.
agile person/animalclassical
Describing someone or something, including people and camels, as light and nimble.
2.
agile womanclassical
A woman characterized by energy and quickness.

وذلةadjective

1.
agile, nimbleclassical
Describing a servant as energetic and quick.

وذلadjective

1.
agile, swiftclassical
Describing a man as light and quick in his actions.

وذلadjective

1.
agile, swiftclassical
Describing a man as light and quick in his actions.

وذائلnoun

1.
mirrorsclassical
Plural of 'wadhilah', referring to mirrors.
2.
silver platesclassical
Plural of 'wadhilah', referring to plates or sheets of silver.
3.
silver ingotsclassical
Plural of 'wadhilah', referring to ingots or bars of silver.

وذائلهnoun

1.
good insightsclassical
Plural of 'wadhilah', used metaphorically to mean sound opinions or wise counsel.

الأنضرadjective

1.
goldenclassical
A comparative adjective meaning more golden or lustrous, used here to describe gold.

الأنضرnoun

1.
goldclassical
The metal gold.

وذيلةnoun

1.
piece of fatclassical
A piece of fat from the hump or tail, compared to a silver ingot.

الوذائلnoun

1.
mirrorsclassical
Plural of 'wadhilah', referring to mirrors.
2.
silver platesclassical
Plural of 'wadhilah', referring to plates or sheets of silver.

الوذيلةnoun

1.
mirrorclassical
A mirror, according to the Hudhail dialect.
2.
silver ingotclassical
A bar or piece of silver.

وذائلnoun

1.
mirrorsclassical
Plural of 'wadhilah', referring to mirrors.
2.
silver platesclassical
Plural of 'wadhilah', referring to plates or sheets of silver.

وذائلهnoun

1.
good insightsclassical
Plural of 'wadhilah', used metaphorically to mean sound opinions or wise counsel.

وذالةnoun

1.
cut of meatclassical
A piece of meat that a butcher cuts without dividing it into portions.

توذلواverb

1.
to cut meatclassical
They cut meat (in a specific manner).

Parallel reading

الوذيلة والوذلة والوذلة من النساء: النشيطة الرشيقة.

The wadhilah, wadhilah, and wadhilah among women: the energetic and nimble one.

خادم وذلة.

An agile servant.

رجل وذل ووذل: خفيف سريع فيما أخذ فيه.

A man is wathil and wathil: light and swift in what he undertakes.

قال الهذلي الوذيلة المرآة في لغتنا

The Hudhaili said: 'Al-wadhilah is the mirror in our language.'

والوذيلة السبيكة من الفضة؛

And al-wadhilah is the ingot of silver.

والوذيلة القطعة من الفضة، وقيل: من الفضة المجلوة خاصة،

And al-wadhilah is the piece of silver, and it is said: specifically of polished silver,

بخُدودٍ كالوَذائل لم ... يختزن عنها وري السنام

With cheeks like the wadhā'il (mirrors or silver plates), the fat of the hump was not hidden from them.

وبياض وجه لم تحل أسراره، ... مثل الوذيلة أو كشنف الأنضر

And the whiteness of a face whose secrets were not unraveled, like the wadhilah (mirror or silver plate) or like the golden kashf (earring).

قال لمعاوية ما زلت أرم أمرك بوذائله ؛

He said to Mu'awiyah: 'I have been constantly presenting your affairs with its wadhā'il (sound insights/counsel).

هي جمع وذيلة وهي السبيكة من الفضة، يريد أنه زينه وحسنه؛

It is the plural of wadhilah, which is the ingot of silver, meaning he adorned and beautified it.

أراد بالوذائل جمع وذيلة وهي المرآة بلغة هذيل،

He intended by al-wadhā'il the plural of wadhilah, which is the mirror in the dialect of Hudhail,

مثل بها آراءه التي كان يراها لمعاوية وأنها أشباه المرايا، يرى فيها وجوه صلاح أمره واستقامة ملكه

He likened them to his opinions which he presented to Mu'awiyah, and that they were like mirrors, in which he saw aspects of the soundness of his affair and the stability of his reign.

والوذيلة: القطعة من شحم السنام والألية على التشبيه بصفيحة الفضة؛

And al-wadhilah: a piece of fat from the hump and the tail, by analogy with a plate of silver;

هل في دجوب الحرة المخيط ... وذيلة تشفي من الأطيط؟

Is there in the worn-out waterskins of the الحره, a wadhilah (piece of fat) that cures from the thirst?

والوذالة: ما يقطع الجزار من اللحم بغير قسم.

And al-wadhālah: what the butcher cuts of meat without dividing it into portions.

يقال: لقد توذلوا منه.

It is said: 'They have cut from it (meat).