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ذرح

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns a small, venomous red insect and the act of adding a small amount of something to a substance. It also extends to descriptions of intense redness and geographical features.

Derived headwords

الذَّرَاحnoun
  1. 1.
    Adh-Dhurāḥ, on the pattern of 'tuffāḥ'.both

    Adh-Dhurāḥ, on the pattern of 'tuffāḥ'.

الذَّرَارِيحnoun
  1. 1.
    And the plural is adh-dharārīḥ.both

    And the plural is adh-dharārīḥ.

ذَرْحَرْحnoun
  1. 1.
    insect (singular)classical

    A singular form for the small, venomous insect, as proposed by Sibawayh.

ذَرِيحnoun
  1. 1.
    hillsclassical

    A term referring to hills or elevated terrain.

الذَّرِيحِيَّاتnoun
  1. 1.
    camels (from a sire)classical

    Camels attributed to a sire named Dhūrih.

الذَّرِيحَةnoun
  1. 1.
    hillclassical

    A term for a hill or elevated landform.

ذَرَّحَverb
  1. 1.
    to add a little

    To add a small amount of something to a substance, like adding saffron to water.

  2. 2.
    to season with insectsclassical

    To season food by adding the small venomous insects (الذراريح).

تَذْرِيحnoun
  1. 1.
    adding a little

    The act of adding a small quantity of something to another substance.

ذَرِيحِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    intensely redclassical

    Describing something as intensely red, like a strong red color.

ذَرِيرَحnoun
  1. 1.
    small insectclassical

    A diminutive form of the word for the small insect, used when the pattern is فعلعل.

Parallel reading

الذَّرَاح، بالضم: دويبة حمراء منقطة بسواد تطير، وهى من السموم، والجمع الذراريح.
Al-Dharāḥ, with dammah: a red, black-spotted, flying insect, and it is among the venoms, and the plural is al-dharārīḥ.
وقال سيبويه: واحد الذراريح ذرحرح.
And Sibawayh said: the singular of al-dharārīḥ is dharḥarah.
قالت له وريا إذا تنحنح * ياليته يسقى على الذرحرح
Wurayya said to him when he coughed: 'Would that he were given to drink from al-dharḥarah.'
وإذا صغرت حذفت اللام الاولى وقلت ذريرح،
And when you make it diminutive, you delete the first lam and say dhurayriḥ,
وذرحت الزعفران وغيره في الماء تذريحا، إذا جعلت فيه منه شيئا يسيرا.
And you add a little saffron and other things to water, tadhrīḥan, if you put a small amount of it in.
ويقال أيضا: ذرح طعامه، إذا جعل فيه الذراريح.
And it is also said: he seasoned his food, if he put al-dharārīḥ in it.
وأما الذريحيات من الابل فمنسوبات إلى فحل يقال له ذريح.
As for al-dharīḥiyyāt from camels, they are attributed to a sire called Dhūrih.
من الذريحيات ضخما آركا
From al-dharīḥiyyāt, large-backed.
والذريحة: الهضبة.
And al-dharīḥah: the hill.
والذريح: الهضاب.
And al-dharīḥ: the hills.