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الحنطريرة

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to clouds and the act of moving in a circular or hesitant manner. It describes the presence of clouds in the sky and the motion associated with them.

Derived headwords

الحَنَاطِرِيرَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Cloudsclassical

    A term referring to clouds, particularly a collection or mass of them in the sky.

حَنَاطِرِيرَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Cloudclassical

    A single entity or presence of clouds in the sky.

تَحَنْطَرَverb
  1. 1.
    to hesitateclassical

    To move or act with hesitation, to be indecisive.

  2. 2.
    to circleclassical

    To move in a circular path or to surround something.

Parallel reading

الحنطريرة، بالطاء المهملة: السحاب
Al-ḥanṭarīrah, with the unpointed ṭāʾ: clouds.
ما في السماء حنطريرة
There is not in the sky any cloud.
أي: شيء من السحاب
Meaning: anything of clouds.
وتحنطر، أي: تردد واستدار
And taḥanṭara, meaning: to hesitate and to circle.