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الوعنة

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes hard, barren land, or specific geological features like lines in mountains. It also extends to concepts of refuge, fullness, and extreme fatness in animals.

Derived headwords

الوَعْنَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Hard groundboth

    Refers to solid, unyielding earth.

  2. 2.
    Barren landboth

    A patch of land, often white, where nothing grows.

  3. 3.
    Ant hill traceclassical

    The mark or trace left by an ant colony.

  4. 4.
    Mountain linesclassical

    Lines or streaks in mountains resembling veins or channels.

الوَعْنnoun
  1. 1.
    Refugeclassical

    A place of shelter or refuge.

توعنتverb
  1. 1.
    Became extremely fatclassical

    Used for camels and sheep reaching the peak of their fatness.

استوعبverb
  1. 1.
    To comprehendmodern

    To fully grasp or understand something; to contain or encompass.

  2. 2.
    To absorbmodern

    To take something in completely, whether physically or mentally.

Parallel reading

الأرض الصلبة
The hard ground
بياض في الأرض لا ينبت شيئا
A white patch in the land where nothing grows
كالوعن
Like al-wa'n (hard ground/barren patch)
ج: وعان
Plural: wu'an
وأثر قرية النمل
And the trace of an ant colony
وخطوط في الجبال شبيهة بالشؤون
And lines in the mountains resembling veins
والوعن: الملجأ
And al-wa'n: the refuge
وتوعنت الإبل والغنم: بلغت غاية السمن
And the camels and sheep became extremely fat: they reached the peak of their fatness
و الشيء: استوعبه
And something: to comprehend it / absorb it