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الشعشع

Root entry · 20 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to concepts of spreading, scattering, and dispersion, often applied to light, liquids, and abstract ideas like worries or opinions. It also extends to descriptions of physical attributes like tallness and thinness, and actions like mixing or attacking.

Derived headwords

الشعشعadjective
  1. 1.
    Tallclassical

    Describing someone or something as tall.

الشعشاعadjective
  1. 1.
    Tallclassical

    Describing someone or something as tall.

  2. 2.
    Lightclassical

    Describing something as not dense or heavy.

  3. 3.
    Beautifulclassical

    Describing something as aesthetically pleasing.

  4. 4.
    Scatteredclassical

    Describing something that is dispersed or spread out.

  5. 5.
    Thin shadeclassical

    Referring to shade that is not dense or thick.

الشعشعانadjective
  1. 1.
    Tallclassical

    Describing someone or something as tall.

الشعشعانيadjective
  1. 1.
    Tallclassical

    Describing someone or something as tall.

الشعاعnoun
  1. 1.
    Dispersionboth

    The act or state of spreading out or scattering.

  2. 2.
    Scattered bloodclassical

    Blood that has dispersed or spread out.

  3. 3.
    Scattered opinionclassical

    An opinion that is fragmented or not unified.

  4. 4.
    Spike of grainclassical

    Referring to the scattered or loose grains on a spike of wheat.

  5. 5.
    Diluted milkclassical

    Milk that has had too much water added, making it thin.

  6. 6.
    Scattered worriesclassical

    A state where one's concerns or thoughts are dispersed and unfocused.

  7. 7.
    Sunbeamboth

    The ray of light from the sun, often appearing like ropes or spears.

شعاع الشمسnoun
  1. 1.
    Sunbeamboth

    The ray of light from the sun, described as appearing like ropes or spears when viewed directly.

شعهاnoun
  1. 1.
    Sunbeamclassical

    The ray of light from the sun.

بهاءnoun
  1. 1.
    Sunbeamclassical

    A single ray of sunlight.

أشعةnoun
  1. 1.
    Raysboth

    Plural of sunbeam or ray.

شععnoun
  1. 1.
    Raysclassical

    Plural of sunbeam or ray.

شعاعnoun
  1. 1.
    Raysclassical

    Plural of sunbeam or ray.

شعnoun
  1. 1.
    Scattered thingclassical

    That which is dispersed or spread out from anything.

  2. 2.
    Hasteclassical

    Speed or urgency.

  3. 3.
    Spider's webclassical

    The web spun by a spider.

الشعيعnoun
  1. 1.
    Hasteclassical

    Speed or urgency.

الشعشعname
  1. 1.
    Man's nameclassical

    A proper name of a man from the tribe of Abs.

أشعverb
  1. 1.
    To emit raysboth

    Used for plants to emit their shoots or rays, or for the sun to spread its light.

  2. 2.
    To ripenclassical

    Used for grain to become dense with seeds.

انشعرverb
  1. 1.
    To raidclassical

    Used for a wolf to raid among sheep, meaning to attack or prey upon them.

شعشعverb
  1. 1.
    To mixboth

    To mix liquids, such as wine, or to mix ingredients.

  2. 2.
    To raise the headclassical

    To raise and lengthen the head of a dish, like thareed.

  3. 3.
    To enrichclassical

    To increase the fat or richness of a dish.

  4. 4.
    To mix thingsclassical

    To blend or intermingle different elements.

تشعشعverb
  1. 1.
    To remain littleclassical

    Used for a month to indicate that only a small portion remains.

شعّverb
  1. 1.
    To scatterclassical

    To disperse something, like urine from a camel.

  2. 2.
    To disperse and spreadclassical

    Used for urine or for people to disperse and spread out.

  3. 3.
    To pour downclassical

    Used for a raid to be poured down upon a group.

أشعهverb
  1. 1.
    To scatterclassical

    To cause something to disperse, like a camel scattering its urine.

Parallel reading

والشعشاع: الخفيف، والحسن، والمتفرق، والظل غير الكثيف.
And al-sha'sha' is: the light, the beautiful, the scattered, and the not-dense shade.
والشعاع، كسحاب: التفريق، وتفرق الدم وغيره، والرأي المتفرق، و من السنبل: سفاه، ويثلث، و من اللبن: الضياح قد أكثر ماؤه، و من النفوس: التي تفرقت همومها.
And al-shu'a', like suhab: is dispersion, the scattering of blood and other things, the scattered opinion, and from the ear of grain: its loose seeds, and from milk: that which has had too much water added, and from souls: those whose worries have scattered.
وذهبوا شعاعا: متفرقين.
And they went scattered: dispersed.
وطار فؤاده شعاعا: تفرقت همومه.
And his heart flew scattered: his worries dispersed.
وشعاع الشمس، وشعها، بضمهما، الذي تراه كأنه الحبال مقبلة عليك إذا نظرت إليها، أو الذي ينتشر من ضوئها، أو الذي تراه ممتدا كالرماح بعيد الطلوع وما أشبهه، الواحدة: بهاء، ج: أشعة وشعع، بضمتين، وشعاع بالكسر.
And the sun's ray, and its shu'aha, with both of them having damma, is what you see as if it were ropes coming towards you when you look at it, or what spreads from its light, or what you see extending like spears after sunrise and the like, the singular is: baha', plural: ashi'ah and shu'a', with two dammas, and shu'a' with kasra.
وشع البعير بوله: فرقه، كأشعه، و البول، أو القوم يشع: تفرق وانتشر، و الغارة عليهم: صبها.
And the camel scattered its urine: he dispersed it, like asha'ahu, and the urine, or the people scattered: they dispersed and spread out, and the raid upon them: he poured it down.
والشع: المتفرق من كل شيء، والعجلة، كالشعيع، وبالضم، بيت العنكبوت.
And al-sha': that which is scattered from everything, and haste, like al-shu'ay', and with damma, the spider's web.
وأشع الزرع: ms0984 أخرج شعاعه، و السنبل: اكتنز حبه، و الشمس: نشرت شعاعها.
And the plants emitted: they produced their rays, and the ear of grain: its seeds became dense, and the sun: it spread its rays.
وانشع الذئب في الغنم: أغار.
And the wolf raided among the sheep: he attacked.
وشعشع الشراب: مزجه، و الثريدة: رفع رأسها وطوله، أو أكثر ودكها وسمنها، و الشيء: خلط بعضه ببعض.
And he mixed the drink: he mixed it, and the thareed: he raised its head and lengthened it, or increased its fat and richness, and the thing: he mixed some of it with some of it.
وتشعشع الشهر: بقي منه قليل.
And the month became sparse: little of it remained.