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قرضبه

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to cutting, dividing, and consuming. It extends to meanings of gathering, scattering, and acting greedily, particularly in relation to food and wealth. It also denotes predatory or destructive entities.

Derived headwords

قَرَضَبَverb
  1. 1.
    to cutboth

    To cut something into pieces.

  2. 2.
    to gatherclassical

    Applied to meat in a cooking pot, it means to gather it together.

  3. 3.
    to scatterclassical

    Applied to a thing, it means to scatter or divide it. This is the opposite of gathering.

  4. 4.
    to eat allboth

    To eat all of the meat.

  5. 5.
    to runboth

    To run, or to eat something dry.

قُرْضَابٌnoun
  1. 1.
    lionclassical

    A name for a lion.

  2. 2.
    thiefclassical

    A name for a thief.

  3. 3.
    cutting swordclassical

    A sharp, cutting sword.

  4. 4.
    somethingclassical

    Something that one has been deprived of.

قُرْضُوبٌnoun
  1. 1.
    lionclassical

    A name for a lion.

  2. 2.
    thiefclassical

    A name for a thief.

  3. 3.
    cutting swordclassical

    A sharp, cutting sword.

قُرْضَابَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    thievesclassical

    A collective noun for thieves.

  2. 2.
    poor peopleclassical

    A collective noun for the poor.

قَرَاضِبَةٌnoun
  1. 1.
    thievesclassical

    A collective noun for thieves.

  2. 2.
    poor peopleclassical

    A collective noun for the poor.

قُرْضُوبٌnoun
  1. 1.
    greedy eaterclassical

    One who leaves nothing uneaten.

قُرْضَابٌnoun
  1. 1.
    greedy eaterclassical

    One who leaves nothing uneaten.

قَرَاضِبٌnoun
  1. 1.
    greedy eaterclassical

    One who leaves nothing uneaten.

مِقْرَضَبٌnoun
  1. 1.
    greedy eaterclassical

    One who leaves nothing uneaten.

قُرْضُبٌnoun
  1. 1.
    residue in sieveclassical

    What remains in a sieve and is discarded.

Parallel reading

قطعه
to cut it
و اللحم في البرمة: جمعه
And meat in a cooking pot: to gather it
و الشيء: فرقه، ضد
And a thing: to scatter it, the opposite
و اللحم: أكل جميعه
And the meat: to eat all of it
و فلان: عدا
And so-and-so: to run
وأكل شيئا يابسا
And ate something dry
فهو قرضاب، بالكسر
So he is a قرضاب (with kasra)
وهو: الأسد، واللص، والسيف القطاع
And it is: the lion, the thief, and the cutting sword
مارزأته قرضابا: شيئا
And what I deprived him of was قرضابا: something
والقراضبة: اللصوص، والفقراء
And القراضبة: the thieves, and the poor
الواحد: قرضوب، وقرضاب
The singular is: قرضوب, and قرضاب
والقراضب والقرضاب والقرضابة والقرضوب والمقرضب: الذي لا يدع شيئا إلا أكله
And القراضب, والقرضاب, والقرضابة, والقرضوب, and المقرضب: he who leaves nothing uneaten
والقرضب، بالكسر: ما يبقى في الغربال يرمى به
And القرضب (with kasra): what remains in the sieve and is thrown away