قضض

Root entry · 17 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concepts of falling, collapsing, and breaking. It also extends to meanings of roughness, hardness, and the sound of breaking or crunching, particularly associated with small stones or bones.

Derived headwords

اِنْقَضَّverb

1.
it fell downboth
it fell down
2.
it swooped down in its flightboth
it swooped down in its flight
3.
the load burdened his back, it weighed him downboth
the load burdened his back, it weighed him down
4.
burdened your backboth
burdened your back

انقض الحائط — The wall fell down.

انقض الطائر — The bird swooped down.

تَقَضَّىverb

1.
the falcon: swooped downboth
the falcon: swooped down
2.
it endedboth
it ended

تقضي البازي إذا البازي كسر — The goshawk fell when the goshawk was injured.

قَضَضْنَاverb

1.
to attack with cavalryclassical
Referring to sending horses against an enemy.

وقضضنا عليهم الخيل — And we attacked them with cavalry.

اِنْقَضَّتْverb

1.
to fall upon, to attackclassical
Used to describe an enemy force falling upon another.

فانقضت عليهم — So they fell upon them.

القَضَضnoun

1.
small pebblesboth
Refers to small stones or gravel.

قَضَّverb

1.
to crunch (food)both
To eat food, especially when small stones get caught between the teeth.

قض الطعام يقض بالفتح — The food crunched when eaten.

قَضَضٌadjective

1.
crunchy, stonyboth
Describes food that is crunchy or contains small stones.

فهو طعام قضض — And it is crunchy food.

قَضَضْتُverb

1.
to experience crunching (in food)both
To have the experience of eating food where small stones get between one's teeth.

وقد قضضت منه أيضا — And I also experienced crunching from it (food).

القِضَّةnoun

1.
girl's excrementclassical
A term for the feces of a young girl.
2.
stony groundboth
Land characterized by an abundance of small stones or gravel.

تقع في قضة من شرج — It fell into a stony area of the ravine.

أَقَضَّverb

1.
it became dusty and roughboth
it became dusty and rough

أقض الرجل مضجعه — The man made his sleeping place uncomfortable.

أقض عليه المضجع — The sleeping place made him uncomfortable.

أقض فلان، إذا تتبع المطامع الدنية — So-and-so pursued base desires.

اِسْتَقَضَّverb

1.
he found it roughboth
he found it rough

استقض مضجعه — He found his sleeping place rough.

قَضَاءadjective

1.
the judgment and its plural is أقضيةboth
the judgment and its plural is أقضية

درع قضاء — A rough tunic.

قَضَّهُمْ بِقَضِيضِهِمْphrase

1.
all of them, every last oneboth
An idiomatic expression meaning the entirety of a group, without exception.

جاؤا قضهم بقضيضهم — They came, all of them.

أتتني سليم قضها بقضيضها — Salim came to me, all of them.

اِقْتَضَّverb

1.
he deflowered herboth
he deflowered her

اقتض الجارية — He deflowered the young woman.

قَضْقَضَةnoun

1.
sound of crunchingboth
The noise made by breaking or crushing something, like bones.

قَضْقَاضadjective

1.
crunching, bone-crushingclassical
Describes a lion that crushes its prey, making a crunching sound.

أسد قضقاض — A crunching lion.

أسد في غيله قضقاض — A lion in its lair, crunching (its prey).

قَضَاقِضadjective

1.
crunching, bone-crushingclassical
An intensified form describing a lion that crushes its prey.

وكذلك أسد قضاقض — And likewise a bone-crushing lion.

Parallel reading

انقض الحائط، أي سقط.

The wall collapsed, meaning it fell down.

وانقض الطائر: هوى في طيرانه، ومنه انقضاض الكواكب.

And the bird swooped: it fell in its flight, and from this is the swooping of stars.

قالوا: تقضى، فاستثقلوا ثلاث ضادات فأبدلوا من إحداهن ياء، كما قالوا: تظنى من الظن.

They said: taqaddā, finding the three 'ḍād' sounds difficult, so they substituted a 'yā' for one of them, just as they said: taẓannā from 'ẓann'.

تقضي البازي إذا البازي كسر

The goshawk fell when the goshawk was injured

وقضضنا عليهم الخيل، فانقضت عليهم.

And we attacked them with cavalry, and they fell upon them.

والقضض: الحصى الصغار.

And al-qaḍaḍ: small pebbles.

يقال منه: قض الطعام يقض بالفتح، فهو طعام قضض.

It is said from it: qaḍa the food yaquḍḍu (with fatḥa), so it is crunchy food.

وقد قضضت منه أيضا، إذا أكلته ووقع بين أضراسك حصى:

And I also experienced crunching from it, if you ate it and pebbles fell between your teeth:

والقضة بالكسر: عذرة الجارية.

And al-qiḍḍah (with kasra): the excrement of a young girl.

والقضة أيضا: أرض ذات حصى.

And al-qiḍḍah also: land with pebbles.

قد وقعت في قضة من شرج

It fell into a stony area of the ravine

وأقض الرجل مضجعه، وأقض عليه المضجع أي تترب وخشن.

And the man made his sleeping place uncomfortable, and the sleeping place made him uncomfortable, meaning it became rough and coarse.

وأقض الله عليه المضجع، يتعدى ولا يتعدى.

And God made the sleeping place uncomfortable for him; it is transitive and intransitive.

واستقض مضجعه، أي وجده خشنا.

And he found his sleeping place rough, meaning he found it coarse.

ودرع قضاء، أي خشنة المس لم تنسحق بعد.

And a qaḍā' tunic, meaning rough to the touch, not yet worn smooth.

ويقال: أقض فلان، إذا تتبع المطامع الدنية.

And it is said: So-and-so pursued base desires, if he followed lowly ambitions.

وجاؤا قضهم بقضيضهم، أي جاءوا بأجمعهم.

And they came, all of them, meaning they came in their entirety.

أتتنى سليم قضها بقضيضها

Salim came to me, all of them

وهو منصوب على نية المصدر.

And it is accusative with the intention of being a masdar.

واقتض الجارية: افترعها.

And he deflowered the young woman: he had intercourse with her.

وقضضت اللؤلؤة أقضها بالضم: ثقبتها.

And I pierced the pearl, I pierce it (with ḍamma): I made a hole in it.

والقضقضة: صوت كسر العظام.

And al-qaḍqaḍah: the sound of breaking bones.

وأسد قضقاض: يقضقض فريسته.

And a crunching lion: it crushes its prey.

كم جاوزت من حية نضناض * وأسد في غيله قضقاض *

How many a slithering snake have I passed * And a lion in its lair, crunching *

وكذلك أسد قضاقض.

And likewise a bone-crushing lion.