ثغب

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns water, specifically the remaining water in depressions, hollows, or small pools, often in rocky or elevated areas. It also extends to the act of piercing or slaughtering, and metaphorically to the flow of blood or the melting of ice.

Derived headwords

الثغبnoun

1.
Pool of waterboth
The largest amount of water remaining in the bottom of a wadi (valley), or a remnant of fresh water in the land. It can also refer to a hollow dug by rainwater channels, where water collects and becomes clear and cool.
2.
Depression in the groundboth
A low-lying place in the upper part of a mountain where rainwater collects. It can also be a small pool in rough ground or on a rock.
3.
Water channelclassical
What remains of a floodwater channel in the earth after the water recedes.
4.
Melting iceclassical
The liquid resulting from the melting of ice.

ثغبnoun

1.
Pool of waterboth
A small pool, especially one in a mountain's shade that remains cool.

ثغابnoun

1.
Pools of waterboth
Plural of ثغب (thaghb), referring to pools of water.

أثغابnoun

1.
Pools of waterboth
A plural of ثغب (thaghb), referring to pools of water.

ثغبانnoun

1.
Pools of waterboth
Plural of ثغب (thaghb), referring to pools of water, especially those in valleys or shaded areas.
2.
Water channelsclassical
The channels or paths of water flow.
3.
Melted iceclassical
The liquid from melted ice.

ثغبverb

1.
To pierce or slaughterclassical
To stab or to slaughter.

تثغبتverb

1.
To flow (blood)classical
Said of gums, meaning blood flowed from them.

ثغبnoun

1.
Piercing or slaughterclassical
The act of piercing or slaughtering.

Parallel reading

هو الطعن والذبح

It is piercing and slaughtering.

الثغب أكثر ما بقي من الماء في بطن الوادي

The thaghb is the most that remains of water in the bottom of the valley.

هو بقية الماء العذب في الأرض

It is the remnant of fresh water in the land.

هو أخدود تحتفره المسايل من عل، فإذا انحطت حفرت أمثال القبور والدبار، فيمضي السيل عنها ويغادر الماء فيها فتصفقه الريح ويصفو ويبرد، فليس شيء أصفى منه ولا أبرد، فسمي الماء بذلك المكان

It is a trench dug by rainwater channels from above; when they descend, they dig like graves and hollows, then the flood passes by and leaves water in them, which the wind stirs, and it becomes clear and cool, so nothing is clearer or cooler than it, and the water is named after that place.

ج ثغاب

Its plural is thaghāb.

وأثغاب جمع المتحرك

And athghāb is the plural of the movable (vowel).

وثغبان بالكسر مثل شبث وشبثان والضم مثل حمل وحملان

And thaghbān with kasr is like shabath and shabathān, and with dammah is like haml and hamlān.

قال الأخظل: وثالثة من العسل المصفى مشعشعة بثغبان البطاح

Al-Akhthal said: And a third of clarified honey, mixed with thaghbān of the plains.

وقيل: كل غدير ثغب

And it is said: Every small pool is a thaghb.

وعن الليث: اللثغب: ما صار في مستنقع في صخرة

And from Al-Layth: Al-lathghab is what becomes a pool in a rock.

ما شبهت ما غبر من الدنيا إلا بثغب قد ذهب صفوه وبقي كدره

I have not likened what has passed of this world except to a thaghb whose clarity has gone and its murkiness remains.

الثغب، بالفتح والسكون: المطمئن من المواضع في أعلى الجبل يستنقع فيه ماء المطر

Al-thaghb, with fathah and sukun: the low-lying place in the upper part of the mountain where rainwater collects.

قال عبيد: ولقد تحل بها كأن مجاجها ثغب يصفق صفوه بمدام

Ubayd said: And you may alight there as if its saliva were a thaghb, its clarity stirred by wine.

وقيل هو غدير في غلظ من الأرض أو على صخرة ويكون قليلا

And it is said to be a small pool in rough ground or on a rock, and it is small.

فثئت بسلالة من معاء ثغب

So I was afflicted with a discharge from the intestine of a thaghb.

الثغب: ما استطال في الأرض مما يبقى من السيل إذا انحسر يبقى منه في حيد من الأرض فالماء بمكانه ذلك ثغب

Al-thaghb: what extends into the land from what remains of the flood when it recedes, remaining in a slope of the land, so the water in that place is a thaghb.

وفي يدي مثل ماء الثغب ذو شطب

And in my hand is like the water of the thaghb, with stripes.

والمكان ثغب وهما جميعا ثغب وثغب

And the place is a thaghb, and both are thaghb and thaghb.

وما ثغب باتت تصفقه الصبا قرارة نهي أتأقتها الروائح

And no thaghb did the east wind stir overnight, a hollow that the breezes prepared for it.

تثغبت لثته بالدم سالت

His gums became wet with blood, they flowed.

والثغب محركة: ذوب الجمد

And al-thaghb, movable: the melting of ice.

والجمع ثغبان، كعثمان

And the plural is thaghbān, like 'uthmān.

الثغبان: مجاري الماء، وبين كل ثغبين طريق، فإذا زادت المياه ضاقت المسالك فدقت

Al-thaghbān: the water channels, and between every two thaghbs is a path; when the waters increase, the paths become narrow and fine.

مدافع ثغبان أضر بها الوبل

The outlets of thaghbān harmed by the downpour.

وقيل الثغب هو الغدير يكون في ظل جبل لا تصيبه الشمس فيبرد ماؤه

And it is said that al-thaghb is the pool that is in the shade of a mountain, which the sun does not reach, so its water cools.

ورضاب كالثغب وهو الماء المستنقع في صخرة

And saliva like the thaghb, which is the water collected in a rock.

وثغب البعير شفته: أخرجها

And the camel protruded its lip: it brought it out.