الورطة

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root describes a state of entanglement, difficulty, or peril, often involving being stuck in a mire or a complex, inescapable situation. It encompasses physical entrapment, dangerous circumstances, and problematic affairs.

Derived headwords

الْوَرْطَةnoun

1.
Entanglement, predicamentboth
A difficult or dangerous situation from which it is hard to escape.
2.
Mire, quagmireboth
A bog or swamp, especially one that traps animals like sheep.
3.
Difficult terrainclassical
An area of land with no clear path, making travel difficult.
4.
Wellclassical
A pit dug into the ground to obtain water.

أَوْرَطَverb

1.
To cast into perilboth
To throw someone or something into a dangerous or difficult situation.
2.
To conceal livestockclassical
To mix one's camels with another's herd, or to hide them.
3.
To strangleclassical
To place a rope around a camel's neck and pull it tight to choke it.

إِبِلُهُ فِي إِبِلٍ أُخْرَىother

1.
Concealment of camelsclassical
The act of mixing one's camels with another's herd, or hiding them within.

الْجَرِيرُ فِي عُنُقِ الْبَعِيرِother

1.
Strangling a camelclassical
The act of placing a rope around a camel's neck and pulling it to choke it.

اسْتَوْرَطَverb

1.
To become entangledboth
To become involved in a difficult situation with no easy way out.

تَوَرَّطَverb

1.
To fall intoboth
To fall into a predicament or difficult situation.

الْوِرَاطُnoun

1.
Charitable donation manipulationclassical
Various deceptive practices related to Zakat (charity) collection, such as combining dispersed items, hiding them, or falsely attributing them to others.

وَرَاطَverb

1.
To manipulate Zakatclassical
To engage in deceptive practices concerning the collection or declaration of Zakat.

Parallel reading

الْوَرْطَةُ: الِاسْتُ، وَكُلُّ غَامِضٍ، وَالْهَلَكَةُ، وَكُلُّ أَمْرٍ تَعَسَّرَ النَّجَاةُ مِنْهُ

Al-warṭah: entanglement, and every obscure thing, and destruction, and every matter from which escape is difficult.

وَالْوَرْطَةُ: الْوَحْلُ، وَالرَّدْغَةُ تَقَعُ فِيهَا الْغَنَمُ فَلَا تَتَخَلَّصُ

And al-warṭah: the mire, and the mud pit into which sheep fall and cannot escape.

وَأَرْضٌ مُطْمَئِنَّةٌ لَا طَرِيقَ فِيهَا

And land that is low-lying with no path in it.

وَالْبِئْرُ ج: وِرَاطٌ

And a well, plural: wirāṭ.

وَأَوْرَطَهُ: أَلْقَاهُ فِيهَا

And awraṭahu: he cast him into it.

وَإِبِلُهُ فِي إِبِلٍ أُخْرَى: غَيَّبَهَا، كَوَرَطَ فِيهِمَا

And his camels in other camels: he concealed them, like he mixed them in.

وَالْجَرِيرُ فِي عُنُقِ الْبَعِيرِ: جَعَلَ طَرَفَهُ فِي حَلْقَتِهِ، ثُمَّ جَذَبَهُ حَتَّى يَخْنُقَهُ

And the rope in the camel's neck: he made its end in its loop, then pulled it until he choked it.

وَاسْتَوْرَطَ فِي الْأَمْرِ: ارْتَبَكَ فَلَمْ يَسْهُلِ الْمَخْرَجُ مِنْهُ

And istawraṭa in the matter: he became entangled so the exit from it was not easy.

وَتَوَرَّطَ فِيهِ: وَقَعَ

And tawarraṭa in it: he fell into it.

وَالْوِرَاطُ، كَكِتَابٍ، فِي الصَّدَقَةِ: الْجَمْعُ بَيْنَ مُتَفَرِّقٍ، أَوْ عَكْسُهُ

And al-wirāṭ, like kitāb, in charity: combining dispersed items, or its opposite.

أَوْ أَنْ يُخَبِّئَهَا فِي إِبِلٍ غَيْرِهِ، أَوْ فِي وَهْدَةٍ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ لِئَلَّا يَرَاهَا الْمُصَدِّقُ

Or that he hides it among others' camels, or in a hollow of the land so the collector of charity does not see it.

أَوْ أَنْ يُفَرِّقَهَا

Or that he disperses it.

أَوْ هُوَ أَنْ يَقُولَ أَحَدُهُمْ لِلْمُصَدِّقِ: عِنْدَ فُلَانٍ صَدَقَةٌ، وَلَيْسَتْ عِنْدَهُ صَدَقَةٌ

Or it is that one of them says to the collector of charity: So-and-so has charity, when he does not have charity.