حثل

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of something being inferior, coarse, or falling away. It extends to describe low-quality plant matter, dregs, and even a poorly nourished child. It can also refer to a specific type of mountain shrub.

Derived headwords

الحثيلnoun

1.
Mountain shrubclassical
A type of shrub found in the mountains.
2.
Short personclassical
A term that might be used to refer to a short man.

الحثالةnoun

1.
what falls from the izār (loincloth) and qamīṣ (shirt)both
what falls from the izār (loincloth) and qamīṣ (shirt)
2.
the husks of barley, rice, dates, and everything with a peelboth
the husks of barley, rice, dates, and everything with a peel

حثالةnoun

1.
Dregs, refuseboth
The coarse residue that falls from grains like barley and rice, or from dates, after they have been cleaned or hulled.
2.
Dregs of fatboth
The sediment or dregs of fat.
3.
Inferiority, dregsboth
Figuratively, the worst or most inferior part of anything.

أحثلتverb

1.
To nourish poorlyboth
To raise a child with poor or inadequate nourishment.

محثلadjective

1.
Poorly nourishedclassical
Describing a child who has been poorly nourished.

Parallel reading

الحثيل، مثال الهميع: ضرب من شجر الجبال

Al-Hathil, like al-hamīʿ: a type of mountain tree.

وربما سمي الرجل القصير بذلك

And sometimes a short man is so named.

والحثالة: ما يسقط من قشر الشعير والأرز والتمر وكل ذي قشارة إذا نقي

And al-huthālah: what falls from the husk of barley, rice, dates, and anything with a husk, when it is cleaned.

وحثالة الدهن: ثفله

And the dregs of fat: its sediment.

فكأنه الردئ من كل شئ

So it is like the worst of everything.

وأحثلت الصبي، إذا أسأت غذاءه

And I poorly nourished the boy, if I gave him bad food.

بها الذئب محزونا كأن عواءه عواء فصيل آخر الليل محثل

In it, the wolf, distressed, as if its howling was the howling of a poorly nourished camel-calf late at night.