قرد

Root entry · 21 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with concepts of attachment, restraint, and clinging, often in a negative or difficult sense. It extends to meanings of deception, stubbornness, and even silence born of exhaustion. It also covers physical descriptions like matted wool and elevated terrain.

Derived headwords

القِرَادnoun

1.
one of the ticksboth
one of the ticks

قَرَدَverb

1.
he removed the ticks from his camelboth
he removed the ticks from his camel
2.
the plural (of قرد)both
the plural (of قرد)

تَقْرِيدnoun

1.
deceptionclassical
The act of deceiving or tricking someone, originating from the idea of subduing a difficult camel by first attaching a restraint.

يُقَرِّدverb

1.
to be restrainedclassical
To be restrained or prevented from acting, used in the context of protecting a neighbor.

القِرْدَانnoun

1.
ticks (plural)both
The plural form of 'qurad', referring to multiple ticks.

أم القِرْدَانnoun

1.
area between hoof and fetlockclassical
The specific region on an animal's leg located between the pastern and the hoof.

قِرَادَىnoun

1.
nipples (of the breast)classical
Figurative use referring to the nipples of a woman's breast, compared to something imprinted.

القِرْدnoun

1.
known (monkey)both
known (monkey)

قِرْدَةnoun

1.
the female (monkey)both
the female (monkey)

قَرَدَverb

1.
he removed the ticks from his camelboth
he removed the ticks from his camel
2.
the plural (of قرد)both
the plural (of قرد)

سحاب قردadjective

1.
patchy cloudsclassical
Describing clouds that are fragmented, scattered, and overlapping in the sky.

قَرَدَverb

1.
he removed the ticks from his camelboth
he removed the ticks from his camel
2.
the plural (of قرد)both
the plural (of قرد)

أَقْرَدَverb

1.
to become stillclassical
To become still, quiet, or motionless.
2.
to feign deathclassical
To pretend to be dead or unresponsive.

قَرَدَverb

1.
he removed the ticks from his camelboth
he removed the ticks from his camel
2.
the plural (of قرد)both
the plural (of قرد)

أَقْرَدَverb

1.
to gather (ghee)classical
To cause ghee to be gathered or collected within a waterskin.

القِرْدnoun

1.
known (monkey)both
known (monkey)

قِرَدَةnoun

1.
the female (monkey)both
the female (monkey)

القِرْدَدnoun

1.
high, rough groundclassical
A place that is rough, elevated, and solid; a type of terrain.

قَرَادِدnoun

1.
high, rough grounds (plural)classical
The plural form of 'qardad', referring to multiple areas of high, rough terrain.

قَرَادِيدnoun

1.
high, rough grounds (plural variant)classical
An alternative plural form of 'qardad', used to avoid the repetition of the 'd' sound.

القُرْدُودnoun

1.
elevated part of the backclassical
The raised or prominent part of the middle of the back.

Parallel reading

القراد: واحدة القردان.

Al-qurad: the singular unit of al-qurdan (ticks).

يقال: قرد بعيرك، أي انزع منه القردان.

It is said: 'qard ba'eerak', meaning remove the ticks from your camel.

والتقريد: الخداع، وأصله أن الرجل إذا أراد أن يأخذ البعير الصعب قرده أولا، كأنه ينزع قردانه.

And al-taqreed: deception, and its origin is that a man, if he wants to take a difficult camel, first restrains it, as if removing its restraint.

هم يمنعون جارهم أن يقردا

They prevent their neighbor from being restrained.

لعمرك ما قراد بنى كليب إذا نزع القراد بمستطاع

By your life, the restraint of Banu Kulaib, when the restraint is removed, is not manageable.

وأم القردان: الموضع بين الثنة والحافر.

And Umm al-qurdan: the place between the fetlock and the hoof.

كأن قرادى صدره طبعتهما بطين من الجولان كتاب أعجم

As if the nipples of his chest were imprinted by them with mud from al-Jawlan like an unlettered script.

والقرد بالتحريك: نفاية الصوف وما تمعط من الغنم وتلبد، والقطعة منه قردة.

And al-qird (with harakah): the waste of wool and what is shorn from sheep and becomes matted; and a piece of it is qurdah.

عكرت على الغزل بأخرة، فلم تدع بنجد قردة.

I interfered with the spinning late, and left no clump of matted wool in Najd.

يقال: قرد الصوف بالكسر يقرد قردا.

It is said: wool mats (qaraḍa al-ṣūf) by breaking (kasr), it mats (yaqridu) matting (qardan).

وهو المتقطع في أقطار السماء يركب بعضه بعضا.

And it is the fragmented clouds in the sky's horizons, some riding upon others.

وقرد الأديم أيضا، إذا حلم.

And leather also becomes thick (qaraḍa), when it becomes stiff.

وقرد الرجل: سكت من عي.

And a man becomes silent (qaraḍa) from exhaustion.

تقول إذا اقلولى عليها وأقردت ألا هل أخو عيش لذيذ بدائم

She says when he lies upon her and becomes still: 'Is there any companion of a pleasant life that is permanent?'

وقردت السمن، بالفتح، في السقاء، وأقرده قردا: جمعته.

And she collected the ghee (qaraḍat al-samn), with fatḥah, in the waterskin, and he collected it (aqradahu qardan): he gathered it.

والقرد: واحدة القرود، وقد يجمع على قرده مثل فيل وفيلة.

And al-qird: the singular of al-qurūd (monkeys), and it may be pluralized as qiradah, like feel (elephant) and fīlah (elephants).

والانثى قردة، والجمع قرد، مثل قربة وقرب.

And the female is qirdah, and the plural is qirad, like qurbah (waterskin) and qirab (waterskins).

إنه لازنى من قرد

He is more of a fornicator than a monkey.

والقردد: المكان الغليظ المرتفع، وإنما أظهر التضعيف لانه ملحق بفعلل، والملحق لا يدغم.

And al-qardad: the rough, elevated place; the doubling is made explicit because it is a suffix of 'fa'lal', and a suffix is not assimilated.

والجمع قرادد.

And the plural is qaraadid.

وقردودة الظهر: ما ارتفع من ثبجه.

And the qardūdah of the back: what is raised from its middle.