الكعبرة

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to concepts of hardness, dryness, knotting, and bulkiness. It describes solid, hardened substances, dense or knotted structures, and large, bulky physical forms or parts.

Derived headwords

الكَعْبَرَةnoun

1.
hard, tough thingclassical
A hard, tough, or dry substance.
2.
plant nodeclassical
A node or joint in the stem of a plant, particularly a reed.
3.
food scrapsclassical
What is discarded from food when it is cleaned or picked over.
4.
bulkclassical
Any collection or mass of something.
5.
thickened fleshclassical
A lump or mass of flesh.
6.
hardened boneclassical
A bone that is hard and knotted.
7.
base of the headclassical
The origin or base of the head.
8.
large hipclassical
A large or bulky hip.
9.
dried dungclassical
What has dried and hardened from a camel's dung on its tail.

الكَعْبُورnoun

1.
bulkclassical
A mass or collection of things.

الكُوعnoun

1.
elbowboth
The elbow joint.

الفِدْرَةnoun

1.
lump of fleshclassical
A lump or mass of flesh.

المُكَعْبِرname

1.
poet's nameclassical
The name of two poets.

المُكَعْبِرadjective

1.
Arabclassical
An Arab person.
2.
non-Arabclassical
A non-Arab or foreigner, the opposite of Arab.

Parallel reading

الكَعْبَرَةُ: الجافيةُ العَلِجَةُ

Al-Ka'barah: the dry, tough thing.

وبضمتين: عقدة أنبوب الزرع

And with two dammahs: the node of the plant's stem.

وما يرمى من الطعام إذا نقي

And what is thrown away from food when it is cleaned.

وتشدد الراء فيهما

And the 'ra' is doubled in both.

وكل مجتمع، كالكعبور

And every collection, like al-Ka'boor.

(بالضم)، والكوع، والفدرة من اللحم

(With dammah), and al-Ku', and al-Fidrah of meat.

والعظم الشديد المتعقد

And the hard, knotted bone.

وأصل الرأس

And the origin of the head.

والورك الضخم

And the large hip.

وما يبس من سلح البعير على ذنبه

And what has dried from the camel's dung on its tail.

والمكعبر: شاعران

And al-Mukabbar: two poets.

وبكسر الباء: العربي، والعجمي، ضد

And with kasrah on the 'ba': the Arab, and the non-Arab, opposites.