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العذب

Root entry · 30 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to pleasantness, particularly in taste and drink, but extends to concepts of restraint, removal, and suffering. It also encompasses various specific objects and places, often with a sense of being a 'tip' or 'extremity'.

Derived headwords

العَذْبadjective
  1. 1.
    pleasant to tasteboth

    Describes food and drink that is palatable and agreeable.

  2. 2.
    sweet waterboth

    Refers to fresh, potable water, as opposed to salty or brackish water.

  3. 3.
    pleasantboth

    Generally agreeable or acceptable.

  4. 4.
    treeclassical

    A type of tree.

عَذُبَverb
  1. 1.
    to be pleasantboth

    To be agreeable, especially in taste or smell.

  2. 2.
    to be sweet (water)both

    To be fresh and potable.

عَذْبٌ وعَذُوبٌadjective
  1. 1.
    thirstyclassical

    Describes someone who is thirsty, to the point of abstaining from food.

  2. 2.
    unobstructed (sky)classical

    Describes the sky when there is no barrier between it and the earth.

الإعْذَابُnoun
  1. 1.
    restraintclassical

    The act of preventing or holding back.

  2. 2.
    abstinenceclassical

    The act of refraining from something, like eating or drinking.

  3. 3.
    drawing waterclassical

    The act of drawing fresh water.

التَّعْذِيبُnoun
  1. 1.
    tormentboth

    The act of inflicting severe pain or suffering; torture.

  2. 2.
    causing to be pleasantclassical

    Making something agreeable or palatable.

الاسْتِعْذَابُnoun
  1. 1.
    seeking pleasantnessclassical

    The act of seeking something agreeable, especially pleasant water.

  2. 2.
    abstainingclassical

    The act of refraining from eating or drinking.

يُعَذِّبُverb
  1. 1.
    to tormentboth

    To inflict severe pain or suffering upon someone.

  2. 2.
    to restrainclassical

    To hold back or prevent.

  3. 3.
    to abstainclassical

    To refrain from eating or drinking.

  4. 4.
    to draw waterclassical

    To draw fresh, pleasant water.

عَذْبٌ (بالتحريك)noun
  1. 1.
    dregsclassical

    The sediment or dregs of food.

  2. 2.
    placental dischargeclassical

    What emerges from the womb after childbirth.

  3. 3.
    algaeclassical

    Water plants or moss.

  4. 4.
    mourning criesclassical

    The wails of mourners.

  5. 5.
    scale pan stringclassical

    The string used to lift the pan of a scale.

  6. 6.
    tip of a thingclassical

    The extremity or end of something.

المَعَاذِبُnoun
  1. 1.
    mourning criesclassical

    The wails or cries of mourners.

عُذْبَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    algaeclassical

    Water plants or moss.

  2. 2.
    dregsclassical

    What is removed from food and discarded.

  3. 3.
    pearl settingclassical

    What surrounds a pearl.

  4. 4.
    tip of penisclassical

    The extremity of a camel's penis.

  5. 5.
    strap behind saddleclassical

    A strap hanging behind the hump of a camel's saddle.

  6. 6.
    tree that kills camelsclassical

    A type of tree that is harmful to camels.

  7. 7.
    medicineclassical

    A type of medicinal substance.

استَعْذَبَverb
  1. 1.
    to draw fresh waterclassical

    To seek and draw pleasant, fresh water.

العَذُوبُ والعَاذِبُadjective
  1. 1.
    unobstructed (sky)classical

    Describes the sky when there is no barrier between it and the earth.

العُذْبَةُ (بالفتح)noun
  1. 1.
    algaeclassical

    Water plants or moss.

ماءٌ عَذْبٌ ككتفadjective
  1. 1.
    mossy waterclassical

    Water that is covered with algae or moss.

أَعْذَبَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to remove algaeclassical

    To remove the algae or moss from something.

  2. 2.
    to have sweet waterclassical

    For a people to have their water become sweet or fresh.

العُذْبَةُ (بكسر الذال)noun
  1. 1.
    dregsclassical

    What is removed from food and discarded.

  2. 2.
    algaeclassical

    Water plants or moss.

  3. 3.
    pearl settingclassical

    What surrounds a pearl.

الأعْذَبَانِnoun
  1. 1.
    food and marriageclassical

    Two things that are generally desired or pleasant.

  2. 2.
    saliva and wineclassical

    Two bodily fluids or substances.

العَذَابُnoun
  1. 1.
    punishmentboth

    Pain or suffering inflicted as retribution for wrongdoing.

  2. 2.
    tormentboth

    Severe suffering or pain.

أَعْذِبَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    punishmentsboth

    Plural of عذاب (punishment).

عَذَابٌ عَذْبِينadjective phrase
  1. 1.
    unrelenting punishmentclassical

    A punishment from which one does not recover or escape.

ككتانname
  1. 1.
    Kaktanclassical

    The name of a horse belonging to Al-Bada' bin Qays.

كزبيرname
  1. 1.
    Kuzaybirclassical

    The name of a water source and four other locations.

كجهينةname
  1. 1.
    Kajuhaynahclassical

    The name of a water source.

عَيْذَابname
  1. 1.
    Aythabclassical

    The name of a place (D.).

العَذَابَةnoun
  1. 1.
    al-Adabahclassical

    A place name, synonymous with العدابة.

العَذْبِيّname
  1. 1.
    Al-Adabiclassical

    A name, possibly referring to a person or place, synonymous with العدبي.

ذَاتُ العُذْبَةِname
  1. 1.
    Dhat al-Uthbahclassical

    The name of a place.

الاعْتِذَابُnoun
  1. 1.
    turban tailsclassical

    Letting two tails of a turban hang down behind.

العَذَبَاتُ (محركة)name
  1. 1.
    Al-Adhabatclassical

    The name of a horse belonging to Yazid bin Subay'

يَوْمُ العَذَبَاتِname
  1. 1.
    The Day of Al-Adhabatclassical

    A historical day of conflict or significance for the Arabs.

Parallel reading

العذب من الطعام والشراب: كل مستساغ
The pleasant (al-'adhb) of food and drink: everything palatable.
وترك الأكل من شدة العطش
And abstaining from eating due to intense thirst.
وهو عاذب وعذوب
And he is thirsty ('aadhb and 'adhoob).
والمنع، كالإعذاب والتعذيب
And restraint, like al-i'dhaab and al-ta'dheeb.
والكف، والترك، كالإعذاب والاستعذاب
And cessation, and abandonment, like al-i'dhaab and al-isti'dhaab.
يعذب في الكل
He torments/restrains/abstains/draws water in all of them.
وبالتحريك: القذى، وما يخرج في إثر الولد من الرحم
And with vowelization (fatha on the 'ayn): the dregs, and what emerges from the womb after the child.
وشجر، ومآلي النوائح، كالمعاذب
And trees, and the wails of mourners, like al-ma'aadhib.
والخيط الذي يرفع به الميزان، وطرف كل شيء
And the string by which the scale pan is lifted, and the tip of everything.
واستعذب: استقى عذبا
And ista'dhab: he drew fresh water.
والعذوب والعاذب: الذي ليس بينه وبين السماء ستر
And al-'udhoob and al-'aadhib: one between whom and the sky there is no covering (i.e., exposed).
والعذبة، بالفتح، وبالتحريك، وبكسر الثانية: الطحلب
And al-'udhah (with fatha), and (with vowelization), and (with kasra on the second letter): algae.
وأعذبه: نزع طحلبه
And a'dhabahu: he removed its algae.
والقوم: عذب ماؤهم
And the people: their water became fresh.
والعذبة، بكسر الذال: ما يخرج من الطعام فيرمى
And al-'udhah (with kasra on the 'ayn): what comes out of food and is thrown away.
والأعذبان: الطعام، والنكاح، أو الريق والخمر
And al-a'dhaban: food and marriage, or saliva and wine.
والعذاب: النكال
And al-'adhaab: punishment.
وقد عذبه تعذيبا
And he tormented him with torment.
وأصابه عذاب عذبين، كبلغين، أي: لا يرفع عنه العذاب
And punishment 'adhbain afflicted him, like balghain, meaning: the punishment is not lifted from him.
وككتان: فرس البداء بن قيس
And Kaktan: the horse of Al-Bada' bin Qays.
وكزبير: ماء، وأربعة مواضع
And Kuzaybir: a water source, and four places.
وعيذاب، كميدان: د
And Aythab, like Maydaan: a place (D.).
والعذب: شجر
And al-'adhb: a tree.
والعذابة: العدابة
And al-'adhaabah: Al-'Adaabah.
والعذبة: شجرة تموت البعران
And al-'udhah: a tree that causes camels to die.
والاعتذاب: أن تسبل للعمامة عذبتين من خلفها
And al-i'tidhaab: letting two tails hang from the turban behind it.
والعذبات، محركة: فرس يزيد بن سبيع
And al-'Adhabat, vocalized (with fatha): the horse of Yazid bin Subay'.