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الشهملة

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to old age and potentially physical characteristics associated with it, specifically referring to an old woman and a person with a large belly.

Derived headwords

الشَّهْمَلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    old womanclassical

    An aged female, an old woman.

شَهْمِيلnoun
  1. 1.
    pot-bellied personclassical

    A person, particularly a man, who has a large or protruding belly.

Parallel reading

العجوز
The old woman.
أبو بطن
Father of a belly (i.e., pot-bellied).