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الشفصلى

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes a specific plant, its fruit, and the act of consuming it. It refers to a climbing plant found on trees, its sesame-like seeds, and the verb for eating this plant or its fruit.

Derived headwords

الشَّفْصَلَىnoun
  1. 1.
    Climbing plantclassical

    A plant that twines or climbs around trees.

  2. 2.
    Plant's fruitclassical

    The fruit of the climbing plant, which consists of seeds resembling sesame.

شَفْصَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to eatclassical

    To eat the plant known as الشفصلى or its fruit.

الشَّاصِلَىnoun
  1. 1.
    Plant's fruitclassical

    The fruit of the climbing plant, which consists of seeds resembling sesame. This is a variant spelling or pronunciation of الشفصلى.

Parallel reading

الشَّفْصَلَى، بكسر الشين والصاد، وشد اللام مقصورة: نبات يلتوي على الشجر، أو ثمره، وهو حب كالسمسم.
Al-Shafṣalā, with kasra on the Shin and Ṣād, and a shadda on the Lām, is a plant that twines around trees, or its fruit, which is a seed like sesame.
وشفصل: أكله، وأكل الشاصلى.
And Shafṣala means to eat it, and to eat Al-Shāṣilī.