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قفحه

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with concepts of aversion, refusal, and rejection, particularly in relation to food or drink. It also extends to descriptions of dust storms and a specific type of dairy product.

Derived headwords

قَفَحَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to dislikeboth

    To dislike or detest something, often with a sense of aversion.

  2. 2.
    to refuseboth

    To refuse or abstain from something, especially food or drink.

  3. 3.
    to sipclassical

    To sip something, like medicine, in small amounts.

قَفَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to dislikeboth

    To dislike or detest something.

  2. 2.
    to abstainboth

    To abstain from food or drink.

  3. 3.
    to sipclassical

    To sip something, like medicine.

اِسْتَقْفَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to sipclassical

    To sip something, like medicine, in small amounts.

القَفِيحَةnoun
  1. 1.
    butterclassical

    Butter that is churned from milk after a ewe has been milked.

قَفْحَاءadjective
  1. 1.
    dustyclassical

    Describing a dust storm where dust rises and branches out.

Parallel reading

قَفَحَهُ، كَمَنْعَهُ
He disliked it, like he disliked (it).
و عَن الطعام: اِمْتَنَعَ
And from food: he abstained.
و الشيء: اِسْتَفَهَ كَمَا يُسْتَفُّ الدَّوَاءُ
And the thing: he sipped it as medicine is sipped.
وَالقَفِيحَةُ: الزُّبْدَةُ تُحْلَبُ عَلَيْهَا الشَّاةُ
And al-Qafīḥah: the butter from which the ewe is milked.
وَعَجَاجَةٌ قَفْحَاءُ، وَهِيَ: أَنْ تَرَى شُعُوبًا تَتَشَعَّبُ مِنْهَا
And a dusty storm, and it is: to see dust clouds branching from it.