نشش

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the drying up or evaporation of water, often leaving behind salt. It also encompasses the sound of boiling liquids and a specific unit of weight. Additionally, it describes the rapid skinning or flaying of an animal.

Derived headwords

نَشَّverb

1.
to dry upboth
Said of a pond or pool when its water begins to diminish and evaporate.

نَشِيشnoun

1.
drying upclassical
The process of water drying up, as in a pond.
2.
sound of boilingboth
The sound made by water or other liquids when they boil.

نَشَاشَةnoun

1.
salt residueclassical
The residue that appears from salty ground (sabkha), which dries up until it becomes salt.

نَشّnoun

1.
twenty dirhamsclassical
A unit of weight equivalent to twenty dirhams, which is half an 'uqiyyah' (ounce).

نَشْنَشَverb

1.
to skin rapidlyclassical
To quickly skin or flay an animal, separating the hide from the flesh.

Parallel reading

نش الغدير ينش نشيشا، أي أخذ ماؤه في النضوب.

The pond dried up, its water beginning to evaporate.

سبخة نشاشة، وهو ما يظهر من ماء السباخ فينش فيها حتى يعود ملحا.

Salty ground with a residue, which is what appears from the salty water in it, drying up until it becomes salt.

والنشيش: صوت الماء وغيره إذا غلا.

And the 'nashish' is the sound of water and other things when they boil.

والنش: عشرون درهما، وهو نصف أوقية لأنهم يسمون الأربعين درهما أوقية، ويسمون العشرين نشا، ويسمون الخمسة نواة.

And the 'nash' is twenty dirhams, which is half an 'uqiyyah', because they call forty dirhams an 'uqiyyah', and they call twenty a 'nash', and they call five a 'nawa'.

ونشنشت الجلد، إذا أسرعت سلخه وقطعه عن اللحم.

And I rapidly skinned the hide, meaning I quickly flayed it and separated it from the flesh.

ينشنش الجلد عنها وهي باركة * كما ينشنش كفا فاتل سلبا *

He rapidly skins the hide from it while it is lying down, just as one rapidly skins the hands of a wrestler from a garment.