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اللحب

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of a clear, well-trodden path or way. It extends to actions related to traversing, marking, or clearing such paths, and metaphorically to impacting or affecting something. It also encompasses meanings related to physical actions like cutting, stripping, and moving swiftly, as well as moral or physical decline.

Derived headwords

اللاحبadjective
  1. 1.
    Clear, evidentboth

    Describing a path that is clear, evident, and well-trodden.

الملحبadjective
  1. 1.
    Clear, evidentboth

    Describing a path that is clear, evident, and well-trodden.

لَحَبَverb
  1. 1.
    To tread, to traverseboth

    To tread upon or traverse a path or way.

  2. 2.
    To strike with a swordclassical

    To strike or cut with a sword.

  3. 3.
    To affect, to leave a markboth

    To affect something or leave a mark upon it.

  4. 4.
    To cut meat lengthwiseboth

    To cut meat lengthwise.

  5. 5.
    To smooth outclassical

    To smooth out the flank of a horse during a descent.

  6. 6.
    To strip flesh from boneboth

    To strip flesh from a bone.

  7. 7.
    To become clearboth

    Referring to a path becoming clear or evident.

  8. 8.
    To make clearboth

    To make a path clear or evident.

  9. 9.
    To have sexual intercourseclassical

    To have sexual intercourse with a woman.

  10. 10.
    To throw downclassical

    To throw down the earth or ground.

  11. 11.
    To walk straightboth

    For a man to walk straight or to walk swiftly.

لُحُوبnoun
  1. 1.
    Clear pathboth

    A clear, evident, and well-trodden path.

التحبهverb
  1. 1.
    To tread uponboth

    To tread upon or traverse a path.

لَحْبnoun
  1. 1.
    Mark, traceboth

    A mark or trace left upon something.

لُحُوبnoun
  1. 1.
    Clear pathboth

    A clear, evident, and well-trodden path.

لَحْبnoun
  1. 1.
    Clear pathboth

    A clear, evident, and well-trodden path.

لَحَبَverb
  1. 1.
    To become clearboth

    Referring to a path becoming clear or evident.

لَحَبَاverb
  1. 1.
    To make clearboth

    To make a path clear or evident.

لَحَبَverb
  1. 1.
    To have sexual intercourseclassical

    To have sexual intercourse with a woman.

لَحَبَverb
  1. 1.
    To throw downclassical

    To throw down the earth or ground.

لَحَبَverb
  1. 1.
    To walk straightboth

    For a man to walk straight or to walk swiftly.

لَحَبَverb
  1. 1.
    To become weakclassical

    To be weakened by old age.

الملحبnoun
  1. 1.
    Abusive personclassical

    A person with a foul-mouthed or abusive tongue.

  2. 2.
    Cutting toolboth

    Anything used for cutting or peeling.

اللُحَيْبadjective
  1. 1.
    Lean-backedclassical

    Describing a she-camel with little flesh on its back.

مَلْحُوبadjective
  1. 1.
    Affectedboth

    Something that has been affected or marked.

Parallel reading

الطريق الواضح، كاللاحب، والملحب
The clear path, like al-lāḥib and al-malḥab.
ولحب، كمنع: وطئه، وسلكه
And laḥaba, like manaʿa: to tread upon it, and to traverse it.
والتحبه: وطئه، وسلكه
And taḥabbaba: to tread upon it, and to traverse it.
و بالسيف: ضربه
And with the sword: to strike it.
و الشيء: أثر فيه، كلحب فيهما
And a thing: to affect it, like laḥaba in both.
و اللحم: قطعه طولا
And meat: to cut it lengthwise.
و متن الفرس: املاس في حدور
And the flank of a horse: to smooth it out during a descent.
و اللحم عن العظم: قشره
And flesh from bone: to strip it.
والطريق لحوبا: وضح
And the path became clear (laḥūban): it became evident.
والطريق لحبا: بينه
And the path became clear (laḥaban): it became evident.
والمرأة: جامعها
And a woman: to have sexual intercourse with her.
و به الأرض: صرعه
And the earth: to throw it down.
والرجل: مر مستقيما، أو أسرع في مشيه
And a man: to pass straight, or to hasten in his walk.
ولحب، كفرح: أنحله الكبر
And laḥaba, like fariḥa: old age weakened him.
والملحب، كمنبر: السباب البذيء اللسان
And al-malḥab, like minbar: the abusive, foul-tongued person.
والملحب: وكل ما يقطع به ويقشر
And al-malḥab: and everything by which one cuts and peels.
واللحيب: القليلة لحم الظهر من النوق
And al-luḥayb: the she-camel with little flesh on its back.
وملحوب: ع
And malḥūb: affected.