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الشيش

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes dates that fail to develop a pit or have a weak, unhardened pit. It also extends to the state of a palm tree producing such dates and a specific historical figure.

Derived headwords

الشيشnoun
  1. 1.
    Dates without pitsclassical

    Dates that do not develop a pit, or if they do, it is not firm.

الشيشاءnoun
  1. 1.
    Dates without pitsclassical

    Dates that do not develop a pit, or if they do, it is not firm.

أشاشتverb
  1. 1.
    Produced dates without pitsclassical

    A palm tree produced dates that did not develop pits or had weak pits.

النفيس بن عبد الجبار بن شيشويهname
  1. 1.
    A narrator of hadithclassical

    A person named Al-Nafis, son of Abd al-Jabbar, son of Shishawayh, who was a narrator of hadith.

شيشويهname
  1. 1.
    A male given nameclassical

    A personal name, appearing as part of a lineage.

Parallel reading

التمر لا يعقد نوى، وإن أنوى، لم يشتد.
Dates that do not form a pit, and if they do form one, it is not firm.
وإذا جف، كان حشفا غير حلو
And if it dried, it was dry, unpalatable fruit, not sweet.
وقد أشاشت النخلة.
And the palm tree had produced such dates.
والنفيس بن عبد الجبار بن شيشويه: محدث.
And Al-Nafis bin Abd al-Jabbar bin Shishawayh was a narrator of hadith.