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الفلز

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily refers to various metallic substances, often impure or slag-like, and by extension, to hard, coarse, or miserly qualities. It can also denote a test or a type of stone.

Derived headwords

الفِلِزّnoun
  1. 1.
    white copperclassical

    A type of white copper, from which hollowed pots are made.

  2. 2.
    iron drossclassical

    The dross or scum of iron.

  3. 3.
    stoneclassical

    Refers to stones or precious minerals found in the earth.

  4. 4.
    earth's jewelsclassical

    Minerals or precious stones from the earth.

  5. 5.
    slagclassical

    Whatever the furnace expels from molten substances.

الفِلِزّnoun
  1. 1.
    coarse manclassical

    A man who is coarse, rough, and strong.

الفِلِزّnoun
  1. 1.
    test for swordsclassical

    A surface or object upon which swords are tested.

الفِلِزّnoun
  1. 1.
    miserclassical

    A stingy or miserly person.

Parallel reading

الفِلِزّ: بكسر الفاء واللام وشد الزاي وكهجف وعتل: نحاس أبيض، تجعل منه القدور المفرغة، أو خبث الحديد، أو الحجارة، أو جواهر الأرض، كلها، أو ما ينفيه الكير من كل ما يذاب منها، والرجل الغليظ الشديد، والضريبة تجرب عليها السيوف، والبخيل.
Al-filizz (with kasra on fa and lam, and shadda on za, and like kahjaf and 'atal): white copper, from which hollowed pots are made, or iron dross, or stones, or jewels of the earth, all of them, or whatever the furnace expels from all that is melted therein, and the coarse, strong man, and the surface upon which swords are tested, and the miser.