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العيث

Root entry · 12 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of corruption, destruction, and spoiling. It extends to descriptions of terrain, animals like lions, and specific actions such as attempting to grasp something unseen or animals drinking insufficiently.

Derived headwords

العَيْثnoun
  1. 1.
    Corruption, spoilingboth

    The act or state of causing damage, ruin, or moral decay.

عَاثَverb
  1. 1.
    To corrupt, to spoilboth

    To cause destruction, ruin, or moral decay.

يَعِيثُverb
  1. 1.
    Corrupting, spoilingboth

    Present tense of the verb 'to corrupt' or 'to spoil'.

العَيْثَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Easy landclassical

    A description of terrain that is flat, smooth, and easy to traverse.

  2. 2.
    A type of plantclassical

    A plant that grows in fertile ground, possibly near a river or island.

العَائِثnoun
  1. 1.
    Lionclassical

    A name for a lion, likely due to its destructive or fearsome nature.

العَيُوثnoun
  1. 1.
    Lionclassical

    Another name for a lion.

العِيَاثnoun
  1. 1.
    Lionclassical

    Yet another name for a lion.

عَيْثَرَverb
  1. 1.
    To begin to doclassical

    To start or commence an action, to be engaged in doing something.

عَيْثَverb
  1. 1.
    To grope forclassical

    To search for something by touch, without being able to see it.

طَيْرُهُ عَاثَverb phrase
  1. 1.
    His birds became confusedclassical

    Used to describe a situation where birds become disoriented or their flight paths become mixed up.

تَعَيَّثَتْverb
  1. 1.
    Drank insufficientlyclassical

    Used for camels that drank water but did not quench their thirst.

عَيْثَىinterjection
  1. 1.
    Wonder!classical

    An exclamation expressing surprise or astonishment.

Parallel reading

العيث: الإفساد.
Al-'ayth: Corruption.
عاث يعيث.
'Atha ya'ithu (He corrupts).
والعيثة: الأرض السهلة، ود بالشريف أو بالجزيرة
And al-'aythah: the easy land, and a plant near a river or an island.
والعائث والعيوث والعياث: الأسد.
And al-'a'ith, al-'uyuth, and al-'iyath: the lion.
وعيث يفعل كذا: طفق
And 'ayth fa'ala kadha: he began to do so.
وفلان: طلب شيئا باليد من غير أن يبصره
And so-and-so: he sought something by hand without seeing it.
وطيره: اختلطت عليه.
And his birds: they became confused for him.
وتعيثت الإبل: شربت دون الري.
And the camels drank insufficiently: they drank without quenching their thirst.
وعيثى: عجبا.
And 'aytha: wonder!