دلب

Root entry · 8 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns a type of tree, its fruit, and related geographical locations. It also extends to describe a type of ember and a water-lifting device.

Derived headwords

الدُّلْبnoun

1.
plane treeboth
A large, well-known tree whose leaves resemble those of the castor oil plant but are smaller. It has small blossoms.

دُلْبَةnoun

1.
plane tree (singular)both
The singular form of the plane tree.
2.
darkness, blacknessclassical
A patch of blackness, like a burn mark or sting.

مُدَلَّبَةadjective

1.
abundant in plane treesclassical
An adjective describing land that has many plane trees.

الدُّلْبnoun

1.
type of Sudanese peopleclassical
A group of people from Sudan, specifically from Sindh. It is considered an inversion of 'ad-dubal' or 'ad-dib'al'.

الدَّالِبnoun

1.
unquenchable emberclassical
An ember or coal that does not go out.

الدَّوْلَابnoun

1.
water-lifting wheelboth
A device similar to a noria or saqiya, used for lifting water to irrigate land. It can refer to the entire mechanism or just the wheel.
2.
chest of drawersmodern
A piece of furniture with drawers, often used for storage.
3.
village in Rayyclassical
A village located in the region of Rayy.

الدَّوْلَابِيّname

1.
nisba (attribution)both
A surname or attribution indicating a connection to the city of Rayy, or possibly to the craft of making the 'dawlab' (water wheel).

إِدْلِبname

1.
Idlibboth
A city and region in Syria, with two main parts, the smaller and the larger.

Parallel reading

الدلب، بالضم شجر

Ad-dullub, with damma, is a tree.

هو شجر عظيم معروف، ورقه يشبه وعرق الخروع إلا أنه أصغر منه، ومذاقه مر عصف وله نوار صغار

It is a large, well-known tree, whose leaves resemble those of the castor oil plant but are smaller, and its taste is bitter, with small blossoms.

الدلب: شجر يتخذ منه النواقيس

Ad-dullub: a tree from which bells are made.

تقول: هو من أهل الدربة بمعالجة الدلبة أي هو نصراني

You say: He is from the people of skill in treating the plane tree, meaning he is a Christian.

الدلب بالضم: الصنار، وهو الأصح

Ad-dullub, with damma: is the plane tree, and this is the more correct opinion.

وأرض مدلبة على مفعلة ك كثيرته

And a land 'mudalabbah' on the pattern of 'maf'alah' like 'kathirah' (abundant).

والدلب: جنس من السودان أي من سودان السند، وهو مقلوب من الدبل والديبل

And ad-dullub: a type of Sudanese people, meaning from the Sudanese of Sindh, and it is an inversion of ad-dubal and ad-dib'al.

والدالب: الجمرة لا تطفأ

And ad-dalib: the ember that does not go out.

والدلبة بالضم: السواد كاللسعة

And ad-dulbah, with damma: is blackness, like a burn mark.

الدولاب، بالضم ويفتح: شكل كالناعورة

Ad-dawlab, with damma and with fatha: is a shape like a noria.

وهي الساقية عند العامة

And it is the water-lifting device among the common people.

يستقى به الماء أو هي الناعورة بنفسها، على الأصح

Water is drawn with it, or it is the noria itself, according to the most correct view.

وسقى أرضه بالدولاب، بالفتح، وهم يسقون بالدواليب

And he irrigated his land with the dawlab, with fatha, and they irrigate with dawlabs.

وبالضم: ع أو قرية بالري كما في لب اللباب

And with damma: a village or a town in Rayy, as in Lubb al-Lubab.

والحافظ أبو بكر بن الدولابي، ومحمد بن الصباح الدولابي محدثان مشهوران

And Al-Hafiz Abu Bakr bin Ad-Dawlabi, and Muhammad bin As-Sabah Ad-Dawlabi are two famous hadith scholars.

وفات المؤلف: إدلب كزبرج وهما قريتان من أعمال حلب، الصغرى والكبرى

And the author missed: Idlib, like 'zubraj', and they are two villages in the Aleppo region, the smaller and the larger.