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الهوس

Root entry · 15 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns intense or excessive actions, often related to eating, movement, or mental states. It encompasses concepts of destruction, rapid movement, voracious eating, and a form of madness or intense preoccupation. It also extends to descriptions of powerful animals and the passage of time.

Derived headwords

هَوَسَverb
  1. 1.
    to strike, breakclassical

    To strike or break something forcefully.

  2. 2.
    to roam at nightclassical

    To travel or roam about during the night.

  3. 3.
    to eat voraciouslyclassical

    To eat with great intensity or greed.

  4. 4.
    to walk with a limpclassical

    To walk in a manner where one relies heavily on the ground, possibly indicating a limp or unsteady gait.

  5. 5.
    to corrupt, spoilclassical

    To cause corruption or ruin.

  6. 6.
    to circle, revolveclassical

    To move in a circular or revolving manner.

الهَوْسnoun
  1. 1.
    striking, breakingclassical

    The act of striking or breaking.

  2. 2.
    roaming at nightclassical

    The act of roaming or traveling at night.

  3. 3.
    voracious eatingclassical

    Intense or excessive eating.

  4. 4.
    gentle drivingclassical

    Driving or urging something forward gently.

  5. 5.
    limping walkclassical

    A walk characterized by reliance on the ground, possibly a limp.

  6. 6.
    corruption, ruinclassical

    The state of being corrupted or ruined.

  7. 7.
    turning, rotationclassical

    The act of turning or rotating.

هَوَسٌnoun
  1. 1.
    a touch of madnessclassical

    A slight or moderate degree of madness or delirium.

مَهْوُوسٌadjective
  1. 1.
    mad, obsessedclassical

    Suffering from a touch of madness or being intensely preoccupied with something.

الهَوَاسَةnoun
  1. 1.
    fierce lionclassical

    A powerful and ferocious lion.

  2. 2.
    brave personclassical

    A courageous and valiant individual.

الهَوَّاسnoun
  1. 1.
    fierce lionclassical

    A powerful and ferocious lion.

  2. 2.
    brave personclassical

    A courageous and valiant individual.

هَوْسَىnoun
  1. 1.
    people eating wellclassical

    People who are enjoying the good things of life.

أَهْوَسadjective
  1. 1.
    time consuming peopleclassical

    A time that consumes people, leading to their demise.

الهُوَيْسnoun
  1. 1.
    thoughtclassical

    A thought or contemplation.

  2. 2.
    what is hidden in the chestclassical

    That which is concealed within one's heart or chest.

الهَوْسnoun
  1. 1.
    lustful stallionclassical

    A stallion that is in a state of intense sexual desire.

الهَوَّاسnoun
  1. 1.
    lustful stallionclassical

    A stallion that is in a state of intense sexual desire.

هَوْسٌnoun
  1. 1.
    lustful stallionclassical

    A stallion that is in a state of intense sexual desire.

بِهاءnoun
  1. 1.
    fertile she-camelclassical

    A fertile or pregnant she-camel.

الهَوْسَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    fertile she-camelclassical

    A fertile or pregnant she-camel.

الهَوْسُnoun
  1. 1.
    fertile she-camelclassical

    A fertile or pregnant she-camel.

Parallel reading

الهوس: الدق، والكسر، والطوف بالليل، وشدة الأكل، والسوق اللين، والمشي ms0770 الذي يعتمد فيه صاحبه على الأرض، والإفساد، هاس الذئب في الغنم، والدوران، وبالتحريك: طرف من الجنون، وهو مهوس، كمعظم.
Al-hawas: striking, breaking, roaming at night, intense eating, gentle driving, and the walk where its owner relies on the ground, corruption; the wolf attacked the sheep, and revolving; and with vowel movement: a touch of madness, and he is mad, like mu'azzam.
هاس الذئب في الغنم
The wolf attacked the sheep.
وهو مهوس، كمعظم.
And he is mad, like mu'azzam.
والهواسة، مشددة: الأسد الهصور، كالهواس، والهاء للمبالغة، والشجاع.
And al-hawasa, with shadda: the fierce lion, like al-hawwas, and the ha' is for exaggeration, and the brave one.
والناس هوسى والزمان أهوس، أي: يأكلون طيبات الزمان، والزمان يأكلهم بالموت.
And the people are hawsa and the time is ahwas, meaning: they eat the good things of time, and time consumes them by death.
والهويس: الفكر، وما تخفيه في صدرك.
And al-huways: thought, and what you hide in your chest.
والهوس، ككتف: الفحل المغتلم، كالهواس، ككتان، وبهاء: الناقة الضبعة، والاسم: ككتاب.
And al-hawas, like kutuf: the lustful stallion, like al-hawwas, like kuttan, and biha': the fertile she-camel, and the name: like kitāb.