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شثن

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root describes a state of roughness, coarseness, and thickness, particularly applied to hands, fingers, or lips. It can also refer to the texture of skin or other surfaces that are not smooth.

Derived headwords

شَثِنَverb
  1. 1.
    to be roughboth

    To become rough, coarse, and thick, typically referring to hands or fingers.

شَثْنnoun
  1. 1.
    roughnessclassical

    The state or quality of being rough, coarse, and thick.

شَثِنadjective
  1. 1.
    roughboth

    Describing someone or something that is rough, coarse, and thick, especially fingers or limbs.

شَثِنَverb
  1. 1.
    to be coarse (lips)classical

    To have coarse or rough lips, as a result of eating thorny plants.

شَثْنnoun
  1. 1.
    coarse lipsclassical

    The condition of having rough or coarse lips.

Parallel reading

الشَّثْنُ بِالتَّحْرِيكِ: مَصْدَرُ شَثِنَتْ (2) كَفُّهُ بِالكَسْرِ، أَيْ خَشُنَتْ وَغَلُظَتْ.
Ash-shathnu (with harakat) is the masdar of shathinatu (2) kaffuhu (with kasr), meaning his hand became rough and thick.
وَرَجُلٌ شَثْنُ الأَصَابِعِ بِالتَّسْكِينِ، وَكَذَلِكَ العُضْوُ.
And a man with rough fingers (with sukun), and likewise a limb.
وَشَثِنَتْ مَشَافِرُ الإِبِلِ مِنْ أَكْلِ الشَّوْكِ.
And the lips of the camels became rough from eating thorns.
وَتُعْطُوا بِرُخْصٍ غَيْرِ شَثْنٍ كَأَنَّهُ أَسَارِيعُ ظَبْيٍ أَوْ مَسَاوِيكُ إِسْحَلٍ
And you give with a soft thing, not rough, as if it were the young of a gazelle or the toothsticks of ishal.