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دلص

Root entry · 15 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes something that is smooth, shiny, and lustrous, often applied to armor. It also extends to the idea of slipping or falling out of one's grasp, and a specific type of animal or object characterized by slipperiness or shininess.

Derived headwords

الدليصadjective
  1. 1.
    smooth and shinyboth

    Describing something that is smooth and lustrous, often used for armor.

الدلاصadjective
  1. 1.
    smooth and shinyboth

    Describing something that is smooth and lustrous, often used for armor.

دلاصadjective
  1. 1.
    smooth and shinyboth

    Describing something that is smooth and lustrous, often used for armor.

دلصتverb
  1. 1.
    to be smooth and shinyclassical

    The passive form indicating that the armor became smooth and shiny.

تدلصverb
  1. 1.
    to be smooth and shinyclassical

    The passive form indicating that the armor became smooth and shiny.

دلصتهاverb
  1. 1.
    to make smooth and shinyclassical

    The active form indicating that someone made the armor smooth and shiny.

تدليصاverb
  1. 1.
    making smooth and shinyclassical

    The masdar (verbal noun) of making something smooth and shiny.

الدلامصadjective
  1. 1.
    shinyclassical

    Describing something as shiny or lustrous.

الدلمصadjective
  1. 1.
    shinyclassical

    Describing something as shiny or lustrous; a shortened form of الدلامص.

الدمالصadjective
  1. 1.
    shinyclassical

    Describing something as shiny or lustrous; a variant form.

الدملصadjective
  1. 1.
    shinyclassical

    Describing something as shiny or lustrous; a variant form.

اندلصverb
  1. 1.
    to slip outboth

    To slip or fall out of one's grasp.

الشئnoun
  1. 1.
    thingboth

    A general term for an object or item.

يدىnoun
  1. 1.
    plural of 'yad'both

    plural of 'yad'

  2. 2.
    in front of itboth

    in front of it

  3. 3.
    in my possessionboth

    in my possession

الدلوصadjective
  1. 1.
    slipperyclassical

    Describing something that is slippery or prone to slipping.

Parallel reading

درع دلاص
a smooth, shiny coat of mail
أدرع دلاص
smooth, shiny coats of mail
وقد دلصت الدرع بالفتح تدلص
And the armor became smooth and shiny (with the fatha on the 'lam').
ودلصتها أنا تدليصا
And I made it smooth and shiny.
إلى صهوة تتلو محالا كأنه * صفا دلصته طحمة السيل أخلق *
To a saddle-bow that follows a course as if it were * a smooth rock polished by the floodwaters, worn out *
والدلامص: البراق
And al-Dallamas: the shiny.
والدلمص مقصور منه
And al-Dallamas is the shortened form of it.
وكذلك الدمالص والدملص
And likewise are al-Damalis and al-Damilas.
واندلص الشئ من يدى
And the thing slipped from my hand.
أي سقط
meaning it fell.
والدلوص، مثال الخنوص: الذى يدلص
And al-Dallus, like al-Khanuus: the one that slips.
بات يضوز الصليان ضوزا * ضوز العجوز العصب الدلوصا *
He spent the night chasing the desert plants with a chase * like an old woman's chase, the slippery sinewy one *