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الشكس

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes difficulty, stubbornness, and opposition. It extends to concepts of a difficult disposition, stinginess, and disagreement, as well as a specific lunar phase.

Derived headwords

الشَّكْسnoun
  1. 1.
    Lunar phaseclassical

    The period of one or two days before the new moon, also known as the waning crescent or 'al-muḥāq'.

  2. 2.
    Difficult natureboth

    A person characterized by a difficult, stubborn, or unyielding disposition.

  3. 3.
    Stingy personboth

    An adjective describing someone who is miserly or stingy.

شَكِسadjective
  1. 1.
    Difficult dispositionboth

    Describing someone as having a difficult, stubborn, or ill-tempered nature.

شَكِسٌadjective
  1. 1.
    Stingyboth

    Describing someone as being miserly or tight-fisted.

شَكْسnoun
  1. 1.
    Stinginessboth

    The quality of being stingy or miserly.

شُكْسnoun
  1. 1.
    Stubbornnessboth

    The state or quality of being stubborn, difficult, or contrary.

شَكِسَverb
  1. 1.
    To be difficultboth

    To possess a stubborn, ill-tempered, or difficult disposition.

تَشَاكَسَverb
  1. 1.
    To disagreeboth

    To be in opposition or disagreement with one another; to be contrary.

تَشَاكُسnoun
  1. 1.
    Disagreementboth

    The state of being contrary or in disagreement; mutual opposition.

شَاكَسَverb
  1. 1.
    To be difficult withboth

    To deal with someone in a difficult or contrary manner; to oppose or make things hard for them.

مُتَشَاكِسadjective
  1. 1.
    Contraryboth

    Describing people who are in opposition or disagreement with each other; difficult and contrary.

Parallel reading

الشَّكْس، بالفتح: قبل الهلال بيوم أو يومين، وهو المحاق.
Al-shaks, with fatha: one or two days before the crescent moon, and it is the waning period.
وكندس وكتف: الصعب الخلق ج: شكس، بالضم، وقد شكس، ككرم.
And like kundas and katif: difficult in disposition, plural: shuks, with damma, and it has been said shakisa, like karuma.
والشَّكْس، ككتف: البخيل.
And al-shaks, like katif: the stingy one.
ومتشاكسون: مختلفون عسرون.
And mutashāksūn: disagreeing, difficult.
وتشاكسوا: تخالفوا.
And tashākasu: they disagreed.
وشاكسه: عاسره.
And shākasahu: he made things difficult for him.