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الزحير

Root entry · 20 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns sounds, particularly strained or pained vocalizations, and also relates to severe intestinal distress. It extends to meanings of birth, hostility, and stinginess, with specific applications in animal husbandry.

Derived headwords

الزحيرnoun
  1. 1.
    soundboth

    A sound, often characterized by groaning or moaning.

  2. 2.
    intestinal distressclassical

    Severe diarrhea with abdominal pain and bleeding.

الزحارnoun
  1. 1.
    soundboth

    A sound, often characterized by groaning or moaning.

  2. 2.
    intestinal distressclassical

    Severe diarrhea with abdominal pain and bleeding.

الزحارةnoun
  1. 1.
    soundboth

    A sound, often characterized by groaning or moaning.

  2. 2.
    intestinal distressclassical

    Severe diarrhea with abdominal pain and bleeding.

زحرتverb
  1. 1.
    to strainboth

    To make a sound of strain or pain, like groaning or moaning.

  2. 2.
    to have diarrheaclassical

    To suffer from severe diarrhea with pain and bleeding.

ضربverb
  1. 1.
    to strikeboth

    A general verb for striking or hitting.

جعلverb
  1. 1.
    to makeboth

    A general verb for making or doing.

التزحرnoun
  1. 1.
    straining soundboth

    The act of making a strained or pained sound.

  2. 2.
    severe diarrheaclassical

    The act of suffering from severe diarrhea.

التزحيرnoun
  1. 1.
    deception in birthclassical

    A specific method to trick a mother camel into accepting a new calf by simulating a recent birth.

زحرت به أمهverb
  1. 1.
    mother gave birthclassical

    A mother gave birth to it.

تزحرت عنهverb
  1. 1.
    mother gave birthclassical

    A mother gave birth to it.

زحر بن قيسname
  1. 1.
    Muhaddithclassical

    A narrator of hadith.

ابن حصنname
  1. 1.
    Muhaddithclassical

    A narrator of hadith.

ابن الحسنname
  1. 1.
    Muhaddithclassical

    A narrator of hadith.

زحرadjective
  1. 1.
    stingyclassical

    A stingy person.

مزحورadjective
  1. 1.
    stingyclassical

    A stingy person.

داء للبعيرnoun
  1. 1.
    camel ailmentclassical

    A disease affecting camels.

زاحرهverb
  1. 1.
    to be hostileboth

    To be hostile or inimical towards someone.

زحره بالرمحverb
  1. 1.
    to stab with a spearclassical

    To stab someone with a spear, causing a wound.

زحرهverb
  1. 1.
    to find a question burdensomeclassical

    For a stingy person to find a request burdensome.

زحرتهاverb
  1. 1.
    to deceive into accepting calfclassical

    To deceive a mother camel into accepting a new calf using a specific method.

Parallel reading

الزحير والزحار والزحارة، بضمهما: الصوت، والنفس بأنين، أو استطلاق البطن بشدة، وتقطيع في البطن يمشي دما
Al-zahir, al-zuhar, and al-zaharrah, with dammah on both: the sound, and the breath with a groan, or severe diarrhea, and cutting in the abdomen that passes blood.
والفعل كجعل وضرب، كالتزحر، والتزحير
And the verb is like ja'ala and daraba, like al-tazahhur, and al-tazheer.
وزحرت به أمه وتزحرت عنه: ولدته
And its mother gave birth to it (zahrata bihi ummuhu) and she gave birth to it (tazahharat 'anhu): she delivered it.
وزحر بن قيس، وابن حصن، وابن الحسن: محدثون
And Zahr ibn Qays, and Ibn Hisn, and Ibn al-Hasan: were narrators of hadith.
وكزفر وسكران: البخيل، وقد زحر، كعني، فهو مزحور
And like zafar and sakran: the stingy one, and he has become stingy (zahara), as in 'alima, so he is mazhur.
وكغراب: داء للبعير
And like ghurab: a disease for the camel.
وزاحره: عاداه
And he was hostile to him (zahara-hu): he opposed him.
وزحره بالرمح: شجه به
And he stabbed him with the spear (zahara-hu bi-l-rumhi): he wounded him with it.
والبخيل: سئل فاستثقل السؤال
And the stingy person: when asked, he found the question burdensome.
والتزحير: أن يهلك ولد الناقة فيما بين منتجه وبين شهر أقصاه، فتجعل كرة في مخلاة، وتدخلها في حيائها، وتتركها ليلة، وقد سددت أنفها، ثم تسل الكرة وقد أعددت حوارا آخر، فتريها الحوار، والأنف مسدود بعد، فتحسب أنه ولدها، وأنها نتجته ساعتئذ، فتحل أنفها وتدنيه فترأمه، وتدر، وقد زحرتها تزحيرا
And al-tazheer: is when the camel's offspring dies between its birth and its furthest month, so you make a ball in a pouch, and insert it into its vulva, and leave it for a night, having blocked its nose, then you remove the ball having prepared another calf, and show it to her, while its nose is still blocked, so she thinks it is her offspring, and that she delivered it at that moment, so you unblock its nose and bring it near her, and she becomes fond of it and its milk flows, and you have deceived her with tazheer.