قهب

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes a specific color: a white tinged with dullness or dustiness. It can also refer to a great mountain and, metaphorically, to powerful animals like elephants and buffaloes.

Derived headwords

القَهَبnoun

1.
Dull white colorboth
A color that is white but has a dullness or dustiness over it.
2.
Great mountainclassical
A large, imposing mountain. This usage is attributed to Abu Amr.

قَهْبَةnoun

1.
Dull white colorboth
The color of something that is 'aqhab' (dull white).

قَهْبَاءadjective

1.
Dull white (female)both
The feminine form of 'aqhab', describing a female animal or thing with a dull white color.

الأَقْهَبadjective

1.
Dull whiteboth
Describing something that is white with a dullness or dustiness. Al-Asma'i described it as a greyness tending towards blackness.
2.
Reddish-greyclassical
Describing something that has a reddishness mixed with greyness. This is according to Ibn al-A'rabi.
3.
Dull white (alternative)classical
An alternative description for white that is dull or murky.

الأَقْهَبَانnoun

1.
Elephant and buffaloclassical
A dual noun referring to the elephant and the buffalo, used to describe strength.

Parallel reading

الأبيض تعلوه كدرة

White overlaid with dullness.

والأنثى قهبة وقهباء

And the female is qahbah and qahbaa' (dull white).

والقهب أيضا: الجبل العظيم

And al-qahab also means: the great mountain.

والقهبة لون الأقهب

And al-qahbah is the color of al-aqhab.

هو غبرة إلى سواد

It is a greyness tending towards blackness.

الأقهب الذي فيه حمرة فيها غبرة

Al-aqhab is that which has redness mixed with greyness.

ويقال هو الابيض الاكدر

And it is said to be the murky white.

كغيث العشى الاقهب المتودق

Like the rain of the evening, the dull white, abundant.

والاقهبان: الفيل والجاموس

And al-aqhabban: the elephant and the buffalo.

ليث يدق الاسد الهموسا * والاقهبين الفيل والجاموسا

A lion that crushes the silent lion; and the two aqhabayn (elephant and buffalo).