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ضفدع

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the amphibian known as a frog. It also extends to describe abundance or a large quantity of something, particularly water.

Derived headwords

الضِّفْدَعnoun
  1. 1.
    one of the frogsboth

    one of the frogs

ضِفْدَعnoun
  1. 1.
    frogboth

    The common amphibian, a frog. This is a variant pronunciation.

ضَفْدَعَةnoun
  1. 1.
    the femaleboth

    the female

ضَفادِعnoun
  1. 1.
    frogsboth

    The plural of frog.

مُضَفْدِعاتadjective
  1. 1.
    abundant with frogsclassical

    Describing a place that has many frogs, implying abundance of water.

Parallel reading

الضفدع مثال الخنصر: واحد الضفادع
The frog is like the little finger: the singular of frogs.
والأنثى ضفدعة
And the female is a ضفدعة (female frog).
وناس يقولون ضفدع بفتح الدال
And some people say ضفدع (dafda') with a fatha on the dal.
قال الخليل: ليس في الكلام فعلل إلا أربعة أحرف: درهم، وهجرع، وهبلع، وقلعم وهو اسم
Al-Khalil said: There are no words in the language with the pattern فعلل (fa'lal) except for four letters: dirham, hajra', habl'a, and qal'am, which is a name.
يممن أعدادا بلبنى أو أجا * مضفدعات كلها مطحلبه *
They headed towards Adadan, by Lubna or Aja, * all of them abundant with water and frogs, flowing with moisture *
يريد مياها كثيرة الضفادع
He means waters that are abundant with frogs.