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عضل

Root entry · 18 derived lemmas

The root عضل (ʿaḍal) primarily relates to concepts of difficulty, obstruction, and hardship. It extends to describe physical attributes like muscle and flesh, as well as abstract notions of severe problems, stubbornness, and even specific tribal names and animals.

Derived headwords

العَضَلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    shrewd personclassical

    A highly cunning or astute individual, often implying a difficult or formidable nature.

  2. 2.
    muscleboth

    A mass of flesh, particularly a muscle in the leg, or any gathered and compact flesh attached to a sinew.

عَضَلَverb
  1. 1.
    plural of 'muscle of the leg'both

    plural of 'muscle of the leg'

  2. 2.
    he prevented her from marryingboth

    he prevented her from marrying

العَضَلَانnoun
  1. 1.
    ratsclassical

    The plural form referring to rats.

عَضِلَverb
  1. 1.
    plural of 'muscle of the leg'both

    plural of 'muscle of the leg'

  2. 2.
    he prevented her from marryingboth

    he prevented her from marrying

عَضَلnoun
  1. 1.
    plural of 'muscle of the leg'both

    plural of 'muscle of the leg'

  2. 2.
    he prevented her from marryingboth

    he prevented her from marrying

عَضَلname
  1. 1.
    plural of 'muscle of the leg'both

    plural of 'muscle of the leg'

  2. 2.
    he prevented her from marryingboth

    he prevented her from marrying

داءٌ عَضَالadjective
  1. 1.
    incurable diseaseboth

    A severe and intractable disease that baffles physicians.

  2. 2.
    insurmountable problemboth

    A very difficult or intractable problem or situation.

أَعْضَلَverb
  1. 1.
    it became severeboth

    it became severe

أَمْرٌ مُعْضِلadjective
  1. 1.
    insurmountable matterclassical

    A situation or affair that is difficult to resolve or understand, with no clear path forward.

المُعْضِلاتnoun
  1. 1.
    hardshipsboth

    hardships

عَضَّلَverb
  1. 1.
    plural of 'muscle of the leg'both

    plural of 'muscle of the leg'

  2. 2.
    he prevented her from marryingboth

    he prevented her from marrying

تَعْضِيلاًnoun
  1. 1.
    obstructionboth

    The act of making things difficult for someone or hindering them from their desires.

  2. 2.
    obstructed laborboth

    A difficult or obstructed birth, referring to livestock or humans.

مُعَضَّلَةadjective
  1. 1.
    obstructed (birth)both

    Describing an animal (e.g., sheep) or woman experiencing a difficult or obstructed birth.

مُعَضَّلadjective
  1. 1.
    whose way is not knownboth

    whose way is not known

مُعَضَّلadjective
  1. 1.
    whose way is not knownboth

    whose way is not known

مَعَاضِيلnoun
  1. 1.
    difficult birthsclassical

    Plural referring to cases of difficult or obstructed births, typically of sheep.

عَضَلَتْverb
  1. 1.
    to be crowdedclassical

    For land to be densely populated or crowded with its inhabitants.

اغْضَأَلَّتverb
  1. 1.
    to become bushyclassical

    For a tree to become abundant in branches and dense.

Parallel reading

إنه لعضلة من العضل
He is indeed a shrewd person among shrewd people.
والعضل: الجرذ
And 'aḍal: the rat.
قال أبو نصر: العضلان: الجرذان
Abu Nasr said: Al-'aḍalān: the rats.
جمع عضلة الساق
The collection of the calf muscle.
وكل لحمة مجتمعة مكتنزة في عصبة فهي عضلة
And every gathered, compact flesh attached to a sinew is a muscle.
إذا كان كثير العضل
If he is muscular.
وهو عضل بن الهون ابن خزيمة أخو الديش، وهما القارة
And he is 'Aḍal ibn al-Hawn ibn Khuzaymah, brother of al-Dayish, and they are al-Qārah.
داء عضال وأمر عضال
An incurable disease and an insurmountable matter.
أي شديد أعيا الأطباء
Meaning severe and baffling to physicians.
وأعضلني فلان، أي أعياني أمره
So-and-so baffled me, meaning his affair exhausted me.
وقد أعضل الأمر، أي اشتد واستغلق
And the matter became severe, meaning it intensified and became intractable.
وأمر معضل: لا يهتدى لوجهه
And an intractable matter: one whose direction is not discerned.
والمعضلات: الشدائد
And al-mu'ḍilāt: the severe hardships.
يقال: عضل الرجل أيمه، إذا منعها من التزويج، يعضل ويعضل عضلا
It is said: A man 'aḍala his widowed woman if he prevents her from marrying, he obstructs and obstructs with 'aḍalan.
وعضلت عليه تعضيلا، إذا ضيقت عليه عليه في أمره وحلت بينه وبين ما يريد
And he 'aḍḍala upon him, if he made his affair difficult for him and stood between him and what he wanted.
وعضلت الشاة تعضيلا، إذا نشب الولد فلم يسهل محرجه
And the ewe 'aḍḍalat, if the lamb got stuck and its delivery was not easy.
وهي شاة معضلة ومعضل أيضا بلاهاء
And she is an 'aḍalah ewe and also an 'aḍal ewe with difficult birth.
وغنم معاضيل
And flocks of sheep with difficult births.
وعضلت الأرض بأهلها: غصت
And the land 'aḍalat with its people: it was crowded.
ترى الأرض منا بالفضاء مريضة
You see the land from us in the open space as if sick.
معضلة منا بجيش عرمرم
A difficult situation from us with a vast army.
كأن زمامها أيم شجاع تراءى في غضون مغضئله
As if its reins were a brave widow appearing amidst its dense branches.
اغضألت الشجرة بالهمز، إذا كثرت أغضانها والتفت
The tree 'ighḍa'allat with hamza, if its branches became numerous and dense.