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البعفط

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes shortness or being stunted in stature. It also refers to a specific object, the dung beetle's ball.

Derived headwords

البَعْفَطadjective
  1. 1.
    shortboth

    Describing someone or something as being short in stature.

البَعْقَطadjective
  1. 1.
    shortboth

    Similar to البَعْفَط, describing someone or something as short.

بهاءnoun
  1. 1.
    dung beetle's ballclassical

    Refers to the spherical mass of dung rolled by a dung beetle.

Parallel reading

القصير، كالبعقط، بضمهما، وبهاء: دحروجة الجعل.
The short one, like the ba'qat, with both of them having the same pronunciation, and 'bahaa': the rolling of the dung beetle.