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حسس

Root entry · 19 derived lemmas

The root حسس (ḥss) primarily relates to sensing, perceiving, and feeling, often in a subtle or hidden way. It extends to concepts of pain, suffering, and even destruction, as well as physical sensations like cold or touch. The root also encompasses notions of investigation, discovery, and understanding.

Derived headwords

الحسُّnoun
  1. 1.
    The faint soundboth

    The faint sound

الحسيسُnoun
  1. 1.
    The faint soundboth

    The faint sound

حسَّverb
  1. 1.
    He groomed it (the animal)both

    He groomed it (the animal)

حَسَّ لهverb
  1. 1.
    to feel compassion forclassical

    To feel tenderly or sympathetically towards someone.

حَسَّسَverb
  1. 1.
    to feelboth

    To perceive or sense something.

  2. 2.
    to investigateboth

    To inquire about or investigate the news or situation of something.

  3. 3.
    to cook on embersclassical

    To place food, like meat or locusts, on embers to cook.

  4. 4.
    to tend a fireclassical

    To move embers around a fire, especially to cook bread or roast meat.

المَحَسَّةُnoun
  1. 1.
    The curry combboth

    The curry comb

الحواسُّnoun
  1. 1.
    The five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touchboth

    The five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch

حاسَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    senseboth

    One of the five senses.

  2. 2.
    damage to vegetationclassical

    Harm or damage to vegetation caused by cold or other factors.

حواسُّ الأرضِnoun
  1. 1.
    causes of destruction to landclassical

    The five main factors that can damage or destroy land's vegetation: cold, frost, wind, locusts, and livestock.

سنةٌ حسوسٌadjective
  1. 1.
    harsh yearclassical

    A year of severe hardship or scarcity.

أحَسَّverb
  1. 1.
    Its meaning is 'he thought' and 'he found'both

    Its meaning is 'he thought' and 'he found'

الانْحِسَاسُnoun
  1. 1.
    uprootingclassical

    The act of being uprooted or falling out.

تَحَسَّسَverb
  1. 1.
    to investigateboth

    To inquire about or investigate the news or situation of something.

  2. 2.
    to feel forboth

    To touch or feel something to ascertain its nature or presence.

حَسْحَسَverb
  1. 1.
    to cook on embersclassical

    To place food, like meat or locusts, on embers to cook.

حَسْحَاسٌnoun
  1. 1.
    generous manclassical

    A generous or munificent man.

الحَسَاسُnoun
  1. 1.
    small dried fishclassical

    Small fish that are dried for consumption.

  2. 2.
    bad characterclassical

    Poor disposition or bad manners.

  3. 3.
    ill omenclassical

    Bad luck or misfortune.

حَسَكٌnoun
  1. 1.
    wherever you wishclassical

    An expression meaning 'from wherever you wish' or 'from any direction'.

حِسُّهُ سُوءٌphrase
  1. 1.
    in a bad stateclassical

    To be in a state of misfortune or bad condition.

حَسَّانname
  1. 1.
    A man's nameboth

    A man's name

  2. 2.
    If you make it 'faʿlān' from 'al-ḥiss', it is non-declinableboth

    If you make it 'faʿlān' from 'al-ḥiss', it is non-declinable

  3. 3.
    And if you make it 'faʿāl' from 'al-ḥusn', it is declinable, because the 'nūn' is then originalboth

    And if you make it 'faʿāl' from 'al-ḥusn', it is declinable, because the 'nūn' is then original

  4. 4.
    a man's nameboth

    a man's name

Parallel reading

لا يسمعون حسيسها
They do not hear its faint sound.
ألحق الحس بالإس
Attach the thing to the thing, meaning if something comes from a direction, do the like.
أخوك الذي لا تملك الحس نفسه وترفض عند المحفظات الكتائف
Your brother is he whose soul you do not control, and who rejects the provisions when they are presented.
حس البرد الكلأ يحسه، بالضم
The cold damages the vegetation, it withers it.
حسسناهم، أي استأصلناهم قتلا
We annihilated them, meaning we eradicated them by killing.
إذ تحسونهم بإذنه
When you were destroying them by His permission.
الحسيس: القتيل
Al-ḥasīs: the slain person.
نفسي لهم عند انكسار القنا وقد تردى كل قرن حسيس
My soul is for them when the spears break, and every proud warrior has fallen slain.
إذا فرجنتها
If you prod it.
ادفنوني في ثيابي ولا تحسوا عني ترابا
Bury me in my clothes and do not scrape any soil off me.
البرد محسة للكلا
The cold is a cause of burning for the vegetation.
أصابتهم حاسة
A damage (to vegetation) afflicted them.
حواس الأرض خمس: البرد، والبرد، والريح، والجراد، والمواشي
The five destroyers of the land are: cold, frost, wind, locusts, and livestock.
هل من بكى الدار راج أن تحس له أو يبكي الدار ماء العبرة الخضل
Is there anyone who cries for the dwelling, hoping that you will feel compassion for him, or that the dwelling will weep with the water of abundant tears?
ما رأيت عقيليا إلا حسست له
I have not seen an Aqili except that I felt compassion for him.
حسست بالخبر وأحسست به، أي أيقنت به
I became certain of the news and I became aware of it, meaning I was sure of it.
حسين به فهن إليه شوس
They were made aware of it, and they are shy towards it.
فلما أحس عيسى منهم الكفر
And when Jesus perceived from them the disbelief.
انحست أسنانه
His teeth fell out.
ليس بمقلوع ولا منحس
It is neither uprooted nor fallen out.
تحسست من الشئ، أي تخبرت خبره
I investigated the matter, meaning I inquired about its news.
حسست اللحم وحسحسته بمعنى، إذا جعلته على الجمر
I cooked the meat on embers and I cooked it, meaning when you place it on the embers.
جراد محسوس
Locusts that have been touched by fire or killed.
حسست النار، إذا رددتها بالعصا على خبز الملة أو الشواء من نواحيه لينضج
I tended the fire, meaning you move it with a stick over the flatbread or the roast from its sides so it cooks.
لولا الحس ما باليت بالدس
If it were not for the heat (of cooking), I would not mind the hiding.
رب شريب لك ذى حساس شرابه كالحز بالمواسى
Perhaps a companion of yours with a bad disposition, his drink is like being cut with needles.
ضربته فما قال حس يا هذا
I struck him, and he did not say 'ouch' or 'hey'.
ائت به من حسك وبسك
Bring him from wherever you wish.
بات فلان بحسه سوء
So-and-so spent the night in a bad state.