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الشفلح

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes large, coarse, or coarse-featured individuals, particularly men, and also refers to specific plants and their fruits, including a type of caper and unripe dates.

Derived headwords

الشَّفْلَحُnoun
  1. 1.
    Coarse, rough-spoken manclassical

    A man who is rough in speech and manner, with thick lips and wide nostrils.

  2. 2.
    Large-lipped womanclassical

    A large woman with wide, slack lips and wide nostrils.

  3. 3.
    Caper fruitboth

    The fruit of the caper plant.

  4. 4.
    Caper plantclassical

    A plant with a stem that has four segments, where a sheep could be sacrificed for each segment.

  5. 5.
    Unripe datesclassical

    Dates that have split before ripening.

عَمَلَسٌadjective
  1. 1.
    Coarse, roughclassical

    Describing someone or something as coarse, rough, or unrefined.

Parallel reading

الحر الغليظ الحروف المسترخي
The man who is rough in speech, relaxed/slack.
والواسع المنخرين
And wide in the nostrils.
العظيم الشفتين المسترخيهما
Great in the lips and slack-lipped.
والمرأة الضخمة الأسكتين الواسعة
And the woman who is large, with wide, slack jawbones.
وثمر الكبر
And the fruit of the caper.
وشجرة لساقها أربعة أحرف إن شئت ذبحت بكل حرف شاة
And a plant whose stem has four segments, if you wish, a sheep could be slaughtered for each segment.
وثمرته كرأس زنجي
And its fruit is like the head of a negro.
وما تشقق من بلح النخل
And what splits of the dates of the palm trees.