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القرقف
Root entry · 8 derived lemmasThis root primarily relates to sounds and actions associated with intensity, shaking, or rapid movement. It also extends to specific terms for wine, small birds, coins, and a type of sound.
Derived headwords
القِرْقِفnoun
- 1.wineclassical
Wine from which its owner abstains or shakes off.
قِرْقِفnoun
- 1.small birdsclassical
Small birds.
قِرْقِفnoun
- 1.dirhamclassical
A dirham (silver coin).
قَراقِفadjective
- 1.loud-soundingclassical
Describing a loud or resonant sound, often associated with a rooster.
قَرْقَفَverb
- 1.to shakeclassical
To shake or tremble, often due to cold or intensity.
تَقَرْقَفَverb
- 1.to shake violentlyclassical
To shake violently until one's teeth chatter or knock together.
القَرْقَفَةnoun
- 1.intensityclassical
Intensity in the cooing of a pigeon, the rutting of a male animal, or laughter.
القِرْقَفْنَةnoun
- 1.uvulaclassical
The uvula.
- 2.bird's actionclassical
A bird that rubs its wings on the eyes of a certain type of bird, increasing its suppleness.
Parallel reading
الخمر يرعد عنها صاحبها
Wine from which its owner abstains.
هو اسم، وأنكر أن تكون سميت بذلك، كلام ضائع
It is a noun, and his denial that it was named thus is wasted speech.
لأنه يسنده إلى أحد، وإنما المنكر أبو عبيدة، والمنكر عليه ابن الأعرابي
Because he attributes it to someone, while the denier is Abu Ubaidah, and the one denied is Ibn Al-A'rabi.
طير صغار
Small birds.
الدرهم
The dirham.
ديك قراقف، بالضم: صيت
A loud-sounding rooster.
قرقف: أرعد
To shake: to tremble.
قرقف الصرد، بالضم، وتقرقف: خصر حتى تقرقفت ثناياه بعضها ببعض، أي: تصدم
The shrike shook, and it trembled: it became thin until its teeth knocked against each other, meaning: they clashed.
القرقفة في هدير الحمام والفحل والضحك: الشدة
The intensity in the cooing of a pigeon, the rutting of a male animal, and laughter.
الكمرة
The uvula.
طائر يمسح جناحيه على عيني القنذع الديوث، فيزداد لينا
A bird that rubs its wings on the eyes of the effeminate bird, and it increases in suppleness.