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الشزن

Root entry · 12 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to hardship, difficulty, and intensity. It encompasses physical exhaustion, harshness in character or living conditions, and geographical ruggedness. It also extends to actions of overcoming, subduing, or preparing for slaughter, and a specific game piece.

Derived headwords

الشَّزَنُnoun
  1. 1.
    exhaustion from walking barefootclassical

    Severe fatigue and weariness resulting from walking barefoot for a long distance.

  2. 2.
    hardshipboth

    General difficulty, severity, or hardship.

  3. 3.
    roughness of terrainboth

    Ruggedness or unevenness of the land.

  4. 4.
    distanceclassical

    Remoteness or a great distance.

الشَّزُونَةُnoun
  1. 1.
    harshnessclassical

    Severity, harshness, or difficulty, similar to الشَّزَنُ.

الشَّزَنُnoun
  1. 1.
    side, directionboth

    A side, flank, or direction.

الشَّزَنُnoun
  1. 1.
    difficult personclassical

    A man who is difficult in character or disposition.

شَظَفُ العَيْشِnoun
  1. 1.
    hardship of lifeclassical

    The difficult and austere conditions of living.

الشَّزَنُnoun
  1. 1.
    knucklebone (game piece)classical

    A knucklebone, used as a piece in games.

تَشَزَّنَverb
  1. 1.
    to become intenseclassical

    To become severe, intense, or difficult.

تَشَزَّنَ لَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to confront someoneclassical

    To stand up to someone, to confront them in a dispute or other situation.

صَارَعَهُ تَشَزُّناً وَتَشْزِيناًverb
  1. 1.
    to throw someone downclassical

    To wrestle with someone and throw them down.

شَزَنَ الشَّاةَverb
  1. 1.
    to lay a sheep downclassical

    To lay down a sheep in preparation for slaughter.

شَزَنَverb
  1. 1.
    to be energeticclassical

    To be active, vigorous, or energetic.

الشَّزِنَةُadjective
  1. 1.
    stingyclassical

    A woman who is stingy or miserly.

Parallel reading

الشَّزَنُ، مُحَرَّكَةً: شِدَّةُ الإِعْيَاءِ مِنَ الحَفَا
Al-shazan, with harakah: is the intensity of exhaustion from walking barefoot.
وَالشِّدَّةُ، وَالغِلَظَةُ
And hardship, and roughness.
وَالغِلَظُ مِنَ الأَرْضِ
And the ruggedness of the land.
وَالرَّجُلُ العَسِرُ الخُلُقِ
And a man of difficult character.
وَمِنَ العَيْشِ: شَظَفُهُ
And from living: its austerity.
وَالنَّاحِيَةُ، وَالجَانِبُ، كَالشَّزَنِ، بِضَمَّتَيْنِ
And the side, and the flank, like al-shazan, with two dammah.
وَالبُعْدُ
And the distance.
وَالشَّزَنُ، بِالفَتْحِ وَبِضَمَّتَيْنِ: الكَعْبُ يُلْعَبُ بِهِ
And al-shazan, with fatha and with two dammah: is the knucklebone played with.
وَذَكَرَ أَحَدُهُمَا الجَوْهَرِيُّ غَيْرَ مُقَيَّدٍ
And one of them, Al-Jauhari, mentioned it without restriction.
وَتَشَزَّنَ: اشْتَدَّ
And tashazzana: means it became intense.
وَلَهُ: انْتَصَبَ لَهُ فِي الخُصُومَةِ وَغَيْرِهَا
And for him: he stood up to him in a dispute and other matters.
وَصَاحِبَهُ تَشَزُّناً وَتَشْزِيناً: صَرَعَهُ
And his companion tashazzanan wa tashzeenan: means he threw him down.
وَالشَّاةَ: أَضْجَعَهَا لِيَذْبَحَهَا
And the sheep: he laid it down to slaughter it.
وَشَزَنَ كَفَرِحَ: نَشِطَ
And shazana, as in faraha: means he was energetic.
وَالشَّزِنَةُ: البَخِيلَةُ
And al-shazinah: means the stingy woman.