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Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to concepts of pulling, tearing, or detaching, often with a sense of difficulty or incompleteness. It can describe physical actions like pulling something out of mud or a poorly made arrow detaching.

Derived headwords

يتقعثلverb
  1. 1.
    to struggle outclassical

    To struggle as if pulling oneself out of mud or a difficult situation.

تقعثلverb
  1. 1.
    to struggle outclassical

    To struggle as if pulling oneself out of mud or a difficult situation.

المقثعلadjective
  1. 1.
    poorly madeclassical

    Describing an arrow that is not well-made or properly fletched.

اقتعلverb
  1. 1.
    to detachclassical

    To detach or come apart, especially referring to an arrow that is not well-made.

Parallel reading

وَمَرَّ يَتَقَعْثَلُ: كَأَنَّهُ يَتَقَلَّعُ مِنْ وَحْلٍ.
And he passed struggling: as if he were pulling himself out of mud.
المقثعل من السهام، وهم، وموضعه ق ث ع ل.
Al-Miqth'al from arrows, meaning confusion, and its place is Q-TH-'-L.
اقتعل السهم: إذا لم يبره جيدا.
The arrow detached: if it was not well-made.