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شيش

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to a specific type of date, often described as unripe or hard. It can also extend to meanings of confusion or mixing things up.

Derived headwords

الشِّيشnoun
  1. 1.
    Unripe dateclassical

    A term referring to a date that is unripe or hard, synonymous with 'الشيص'.

الشِّيشاءnoun
  1. 1.
    Unripe dateclassical

    An alternative term for an unripe or hard date, also synonymous with 'الشيصاء'.

شِيصnoun
  1. 1.
    Unripe dateclassical

    A date that has not yet ripened, remaining hard and often astringent.

شِيصاءnoun
  1. 1.
    Unripe dateclassical

    A variant or plural form referring to unripe dates.

تشوَّشَverb
  1. 1.
    the matter became confused for himboth

    the matter became confused for him

التَّشْوِيشnoun
  1. 1.
    confusion, mixingboth

    confusion, mixing

Parallel reading

الشِّيش والشِّيشاء: لغة في الشِّيص والشِّيصاء.
Al-shīsh and al-shīshāʾ: a dialectal variant for al-shīṣ and al-shīṣāʾ.
يا لك من تمر ومن شيشاء * ينشب في المسعل واللهاء
Oh, what dates and what unripe dates * that stick in the throat and uvula!
ويروى " اللهاء " بكسر اللام، جمع لهى، مثل أضى وأضاء جمع أضاءة.
And it is narrated 'al-luhā' with a kasra on the lām, a plural of lahā, like aḍā and aḍāʾa, a plural of aḍāʾah.
التَّشْوِيش: التَّخْلِيط.
Al-tashwīsh: confusion/mixing.
وقد تشوَّش عليه الأمر.
And the matter became confused for him.