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القسطل

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concept of dust, fine particles, and the sounds associated with them. It also extends to metaphorical meanings like a great calamity and specific geographical or descriptive terms.

Derived headwords

القَسْطَلnoun
  1. 1.
    dustboth

    Fine particles of earth or other matter, often raised into the air.

القِسْطَالnoun
  1. 1.
    dustboth

    Fine particles of earth or other matter, often raised into the air.

القَسْطَلَانnoun
  1. 1.
    dustboth

    Fine particles of earth or other matter, often raised into the air.

أم قسطلname
  1. 1.
    calamityclassical

    A great disaster or misfortune.

القَسْطَلَانِيَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    rainbowboth

    An arc of colors visible in the sky, caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun's light by rain or other water droplets.

  2. 2.
    redness of twilightboth

    The reddish hue seen in the sky during twilight.

  3. 3.
    garmentclassical

    A piece of clothing attributed to a specific official or originating from a place called Qastal.

قِسْطِيلِيَّةname
  1. 1.
    place nameclassical

    A place name, likely a town or region.

قَسْطَلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    rumbling soundboth

    The deep, resonant sound made by a camel.

  2. 2.
    murmur of a riverboth

    The soft, continuous sound of flowing water.

قَسْطَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to rumbleboth

    To make a deep, continuous sound, like a camel's call.

  2. 2.
    to murmurboth

    To make a soft, continuous sound, like a river.

Parallel reading

القسطل والقسطال والقسطلان، بفتحهن وكزنبور: الغبار.
Al-Qastal, Al-Qistal, and Al-Qastalan, with their open vowels and like a wasp: dust.
وأم قسطل: الداهية.
And Umm Qastal: the calamity.
والقسطلانية: قوس قزح، وحمرة الشفق، وثوب منسوب إلى عامل، أو إلى قسطلة د بالأندلس.
And Al-Qastalaniah: the rainbow, the redness of twilight, and a garment attributed to an official, or to Qastalah, a place in Andalusia.
وقسطلة الجمل: هديره، ومن النهر: حسه وصوته.
And the Qastalah of a camel: its rumbling, and from the river: its sound and voice.
وهو نهر قسطال، بالكسر.
And it is a Qastal river, with a kasrah.