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خضد

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of bending, breaking, or cutting something, particularly a flexible or moist object. It extends to eating vigorously and to specific types of cut vegetation or soft trees.

Derived headwords

خَضَدَverb
  1. 1.
    the tree: he cut its thornsboth

    the tree: he cut its thorns

اِنْخَضَدَverb
  1. 1.
    to be bentboth

    To be bent or yielded, without breaking.

خَضْدnoun
  1. 1.
    the tree: he cut its thornsboth

    the tree: he cut its thorns

خَضْدَةnoun
  1. 1.
    bent thingboth

    Something that has been bent or cut.

تَخْضِيدnoun
  1. 1.
    bendingboth

    The act of bending something moist or tender.

  2. 2.
    cuttingboth

    The act of cutting, especially of moist vegetation.

خَضِيدadjective
  1. 1.
    so it is pruned/strippedboth

    so it is pruned/stripped

مَخْضُودadjective
  1. 1.
    and pruned/strippedboth

    and pruned/stripped

خُضَاضnoun
  1. 1.
    soft shrubclassical

    A soft, pliable shrub or tree that lacks thorns.

Parallel reading

خَضَدْتُ العُودَ فَانْخَضَدَ
I bent the branch and it bent.
أي ثنيته فانثنى من غير كسر
Meaning, I bent it and it bent without breaking.
والخَضْدُ: الأكل الشديد
And al-khaddu: vigorous eating.
وَيَخْضِدُ فِي الآرِيِّ حَتَّى كَأَنَّمَا
And he eats vigorously in the manger as if...
بِهِ عِرَّةٌ أَوْ طَائِفٌ غَيْرُ مُعْقِبِ
He has a skin disease or a persistent visitor.
مَا يُعْجِبُكَ مِنْهُ؟ قَالَ: خَضْدُهُ وَبَرْدُهُ
What impresses you about it? He said: its crispness and its coolness.
والخَضْدُ: القَطْعُ
And al-khaddu: cutting.
وَكُلُّ رَطْبٍ قَضَبْتَهُ فَقَدْ خَضَدْتَهُ
And anything moist that you cut, you have khadad-ed it.
وَكَذَلِكَ التَّخْضِيدُ
And likewise is al-takhdid.
أَوْ خَرُوعٌ لَمْ يُخْضَدْ
Or a flexible plant that has not been cut.
وَخَضَدْتُ الشَّجَرَ: قَطَعْتُ شَوْكَهُ
And I trimmed the tree: I cut its thorns.
فَهُوَ خَضِيدٌ وَمَخْضُودٌ
And it is khadid and makhdud.
والخَضْدُ: كُلُّ مَا قُطِعَ مِنْ عُودٍ رَطْبٍ
And al-khaddu: anything cut from a moist branch.
كَمَا انْثَنَى خَضَدٌ مِنْ نَاعِمِ الضَّالِّ
As a cut piece of soft acacia bends.
والخُضَاضُ: شَجَرٌ رَخْوٌ بِلَا شَوْكٍ
And al-khudhadu: a soft tree without thorns.