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الحنصار

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root describes a person or animal characterized by a large belly and a slender or delicate bone structure. It conveys a sense of being thin-boned but pot-bellied.

Derived headwords

الحِنْصَارnoun
  1. 1.
    Thin-boned personboth

    A person who is slender in bone structure, implying a delicate or frail build.

  2. 2.
    Pot-bellied personboth

    A person characterized by a large or protruding belly, often in contrast to a slender frame.

حِنْصَارadjective
  1. 1.
    Thin-bonedclassical

    Describing someone or something as having delicate or slender bones.

  2. 2.
    Pot-belliedclassical

    Describing someone or something as having a large or prominent belly.

Parallel reading

الحنصار، بالكسر: الدقيق العظم، العظيم البطن.
Al-ḥinṣār, with a kasra: the delicate-boned, the large-bellied.