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دخشن

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to roughness, coarseness, and unevenness, particularly in physical form and texture. It extends to describing a hunchback or a prominent hump, and by extension, can refer to something coarse or unrefined in speech.

Derived headwords

دَخْشَنٌadjective
  1. 1.
    Rough, coarseboth

    Describing something that is rough, coarse, or unrefined in texture or quality.

  2. 2.
    Hunchbackedclassical

    Referring to a person who is hunchbacked or has a prominent hump.

الدَّخْشَمnoun
  1. 1.
    Hump, hunchbackclassical

    A prominent hump on the back, or a person characterized by such a hump.

الدَّخْشَنnoun
  1. 1.
    Hump, hunchbackclassical

    A prominent hump on the back, or a person characterized by such a hump.

Parallel reading

رجل دخشن غليظ
A rough, coarse man.
ويقال الدخشم
And it is also said 'ad-dakhsham'.
الفراء الدخشن الحدبة
Al-Farra' [said] 'ad-dakhshan' [means] the hump.
حدب حدابير من الدخشن
Humps, large humps of the hunchbacked kind.
تركن راعيهن مثل الشن
Leaving their shepherd like a waterskin.
والدخشن في الكلام لا ينون
And 'ad-dakhshan' in speech is not typically inflected with tanwin.
والشاعر ثقل نونه لحاجته إليه
And the poet made its nun heavy (inflected it) out of need for it.