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الحنكل

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root describes negative personal qualities and physical characteristics, including meanness, shortness, coarseness, and ugliness. It also relates to slow or heavy movement.

Derived headwords

الحِنْكَلnoun
  1. 1.
    mean personboth

    A person characterized by meanness, baseness, or ignobility.

  2. 2.
    short personboth

    A person who is short in stature.

  3. 3.
    coarse personboth

    A person who is rough, uncouth, and ill-mannered.

الحِنْكَلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    ugly black thingboth

    A dark-colored, unattractive, and unpleasant object or entity.

  2. 2.
    coarse thingboth

    Something characterized by roughness or lack of refinement.

حَنْكَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to move heavilyboth

    To walk with heaviness and slowness, indicating a lack of agility or a deliberate, ponderous pace.

Parallel reading

الحنكل، كجعفر وعلابط: اللئيم، والقصير، والجافي الغليظ.
Al-hankal, like Ja'far and 'alabīt: the mean, the short, and the coarse, the rough.
والحنكلة: الدميمة السوداء، والجافية.
And al-hankalah: the ugly black thing, and the coarse one.
وحنكل في المشي: تثاقل وتباطأ.
And he hankala in his walking: he became heavy and slow.