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Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns nourishment, growth, and sustenance for living beings, particularly animals. It extends to concepts of rapid movement, caretaking, and even specific bodily fluids or anatomical features.

Derived headwords

الغَذِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    nutritiveboth

    Pertaining to nourishment or that which causes growth.

الغَذَوِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    nutritionalboth

    Relating to nutrition or the process of nourishing.

غَذِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    young goatclassical

    A young female goat (kid).

غِذَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    nourishmentboth

    That by which the body grows and is sustained; sustenance.

غَذَاverb
  1. 1.
    to nourishboth

    He nourished it; he provided sustenance for it.

  2. 2.
    to cutclassical

    He cut it.

اغتَذَىverb
  1. 1.
    to be nourishedboth

    He was nourished; he took sustenance.

تَغَذَّىverb
  1. 1.
    to be nourishedboth

    He nourished himself; he took nourishment.

الغَذَاnoun
  1. 1.
    camel's urineclassical

    The urine of a camel.

غَذَاverb
  1. 1.
    to cutclassical

    He cut it.

  2. 2.
    to flowclassical

    It became cut off; it flowed.

  3. 3.
    to hastenclassical

    He hastened.

تَغْذِيَةnoun
  1. 1.
    nourishmentboth

    The act of nourishing; upbringing or education.

الغُذْوَانnoun
  1. 1.
    energetic horseclassical

    An energetic and fast-moving horse.

  2. 2.
    vulgar personclassical

    An insolent or vulgar person.

  3. 3.
    a place nameclassical

    A body of water between Basra and Medina.

استَغْذَاهُverb
  1. 1.
    to throw downclassical

    He threw him down and bound him tightly.

الغَاذِيَةnoun
  1. 1.
    veinclassical

    A vein.

غَاذِي مَالnoun phrase
  1. 1.
    caretaker of propertyclassical

    One who manages and looks after property or wealth.

Parallel reading

ك الغذي والغذوي في الكل
Like the nutritive and the nutritional in everything.
والغذي، كغني: السخلة
And al-Ghadhiyy, like Ghaniyy: the young female goat.
والغذاء، ككساء: ما به نماء الجسم وقوامه
And al-Ghidhaa', like Kisaa': that by which the body grows and is sustained.
غذاه غذوا وغذاه واغتذى وتغذى
He nourished it, and he nourished it, and he was nourished, and he nourished himself.
والغذا، مقصورة: بول الجمل
And al-Ghadhaa', shortened: the urine of the camel.
وغذاه، و به: قطعه، كغذاه، وانقطع، وسال، وأسرع
And he cut it, and it became cut off, and it flowed, and he hastened.
والعرق: سال دما، كغذى تغذية
And the vein: it flowed with blood, like he nourished with nourishment.
والغذوان، محركة: الفرس النشيط المسرع، والسليط الفاحش، وهي: بهاء، وماء بين البصرة والمدينة
And al-Ghudhwaan, with harakah: the energetic, fast horse, and the insolent, vulgar person, and it is: Bahaa', and a body of water between Basra and Medina.
واستغذاه: صرعه فشد صرعه
And he threw him down: he threw him down and bound him tightly.
والغاذية: عرق
And al-Ghaadhiyah: a vein.
وهو غاذي مال: مصلحه، وسائسه
And he is a caretaker of wealth: its manager, its administrator.
والتغذية: التربية
And al-Taghdhiyah: upbringing.