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الهنبص

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root appears to describe weakness, insignificance, and baseness. It also extends to physical descriptions like having a large belly and the act of suppressing laughter.

Derived headwords

الهِنْبِصadjective
  1. 1.
    Weak, baseclassical

    Describing someone who is weak, insignificant, and of low quality or character.

الهِنْبِصadjective
  1. 1.
    Pot-belliedclassical

    Describing someone who has a large or protruding belly.

الهِنْبَصَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Suppressing laughterclassical

    The act of hiding or suppressing one's laughter.

Parallel reading

الهنبص، بالكسر: الضعيف الحقير الرديء.
Al-hinbiṣ, with a kasra: the weak, the base, the bad.
وكقنفذ: العظيم البطن.
And like qunfudh: the one with a large belly.
والهنبصة: إخفاء الضحك.
And al-hanbaṣah: the hiding of laughter.