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غبس

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes a grayish or dusty color, often associated with animals like wolves or horses. It also extends to concepts of time, particularly a long or indefinite duration, and generosity.

Derived headwords

أَغْبَسadjective
  1. 1.
    grayish, dustyboth

    Describing a color like that of ash, a dull white with a grayish tinge.

غَبَسَverb
  1. 1.
    to be grayishclassical

    To have a grayish or dusty color.

غَبِيسname
  1. 1.
    long time, eternityclassical

    A term used to denote a long or indefinite period of time, often translated as 'eternity' or 'the ages'.

غَبِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    He was ignorant of the thing if he did not know it.both

    He was ignorant of the thing if he did not know it.

غَبَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    slowness, dullnessclassical

    The state of being slow or dull, potentially related to the origin of 'ghabees'.

غَبَسٌnoun
  1. 1.
    grayish colorclassical

    The color of ash, a dull white with a grayish tinge.

Parallel reading

الغبس بالفتح: لون كلون الرماد، وهو بياض فيه كدرة
Al-ghabs (with fatha): a color like the color of ash, which is a whiteness with dullness in it.
يقال: ذئب أغبس
It is said: a grayish wolf.
والورد الأغبس من الخيل، هو الذي تدعوه الأعاجم: " سمند "
And the grayish bay horse is what the non-Arabs call 'samand'.
لا آتيك ما غبا غبيس
I will not come to you as long as Ghabees lasts.
يراد به الدهر
It is intended to mean time/eternity.
ما غبا غبيس: ظرف من الزمان
Ma ghabba Ghabees: an adverb of time.
وفى بنى أم زبير كيس * على الطعام ما غبا غبيس *
And among the Banu Umm Zubayr is a storehouse of food that never runs out.
أي فيهم جود
Meaning, they possess generosity.
أصله الذئب
Its origin is the wolf.
غبيس: تصغير أغبس مرخما
Ghabees: a shortened diminutive of Aghbas.
غبا، أصله غب، فأبدل من أحد حرفي التضعيف الالف
Ghaba, its origin is ghabba, and the alif was substituted for one of the doubled letters.
مثل تقضى أصله تقضض
Like taqaddaa, its origin is taqaddada.
يقول: لا آتيك ما دام الذئب يأتي الغنم غبا
He says: I will not come to you as long as the wolf comes to the sheep intermittently.