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جبش

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the act of shaving or clipping hair, particularly the head. It also extends to describe a group of people whose heads have been shaved.

Derived headwords

جَبَشَverb
  1. 1.
    to shaveclassical

    To shave the hair, especially of the head.

جَبْشnoun
  1. 1.
    shavingclassical

    The act of shaving the hair.

جَبَشَverb
  1. 1.
    to clipclassical

    To clip or cut the hair short.

جُبَاشname
  1. 1.
    given nameboth

    A male given name, as in Muhammad bin Ali bin Tarkhan bin Jubash.

جُبَاشnoun
  1. 1.
    shaved headclassical

    A shaved head.

جَبِيشnoun
  1. 1.
    shaved groupclassical

    A group of people whose heads have been shaved.

Parallel reading

جبش الشعر يجبشه: حلقه.
To shave the hair is to shave it.
والجبيش: الركب المحلوق.
And Al-Jubaysh: the shaved company.
ومحمد بن علي بن طرخان بن جباش، ككتان: محدث روى عنه ابنه الحافظ عبد الله.
And Muhammad bin Ali bin Tarkhan bin Jubash, like Kattan: a traditionist from whom his son Al-Hafiz Abdullah narrated.