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ذعف

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns deadly poison and its effects, specifically rapid and fatal outcomes. It extends to the act of administering poison and describes things or events associated with it.

Derived headwords

الذعافnoun
  1. 1.
    deadly poisonboth

    The primary meaning refers to a potent and lethal poison.

مذعوفadjective
  1. 1.
    poisonedboth

    Describes food or something else that has been administered with poison.

ذعفتverb
  1. 1.
    to give poisonclassical

    This is the past tense, first-person singular form of the verb meaning to administer poison to someone.

ذعافadjective
  1. 1.
    swift, deadlyboth

    Describes a death that is quick and causes immediate fatality.

ذؤافadjective
  1. 1.
    swift, deadlyclassical

    An alternative form to ذعاف, describing a death that is quick and causes immediate fatality.

Parallel reading

الذعاف: السم.
Al-dhu'af: poison.
وطعام مذعوف.
And poisoned food.
وذعفت الرجال: أي سقيته الذعاف.
And I gave men poison: meaning I gave them the deadly poison.
وموت ذعاف وذؤاف، أي سريع يعجل القتل.
And a swift and deadly death, meaning quick and hastening the killing.