القحب

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to severe coughing and sickness, often associated with old age or a persistent, debilitating cough. It can also refer to an aged person, particularly a woman, and by extension, a morally corrupt or promiscuous woman.

Derived headwords

قَحَبَverb

1.
to cough severelyboth
To suffer from a strong and persistent cough, often indicative of illness.

قُحَابnoun

1.
severe coughboth
A violent and persistent cough, often a symptom of a serious ailment.

قَحْبَةnoun

1.
aged womanclassical
An old woman, often implying frailty or a worn-out state.
2.
sickly personboth
One who is afflicted by a disease, particularly one causing a cough.
3.
promiscuous womanclassical
A woman considered morally corrupt or promiscuous, metaphorically linked to the act of coughing or making suggestive sounds.

قَاحِبadjective

1.
coughingboth
Suffering from a cough, especially a severe or persistent one.

تَقْحِيبnoun

1.
coughingclassical
The act or state of coughing severely.

Parallel reading

المسن، والعجوز: قحبة

The old man, and the old woman: qahbah.

والذي يأخذه السعال

And he who is overcome by coughing.

وقد قحب، كنصر، قحبا وقحابا، بالضم

And he coughed, like 'nasara', qahban and quhaban (with dammah).

وقحب تقحيبا

And he coughed taqhiban.

وسعال قاحب: شديد

And a qahib cough: severe.

والقحبة: الفاسدة الجوف من داء

And al-qahbah: one whose inside is corrupted by disease.

والفاجرة لأنها تسعل وتنحنح، أي: ترمز به

And the immoral woman because she coughs and clears her throat, meaning: she signals with it.

وبه قحبة، أي: سعال

And he has qahbah, meaning: a cough.