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شخب

Root entry · 19 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of flowing, dripping, or gushing, particularly of liquids like milk or blood. It also extends to related ideas such as the sound of milk being milked, and metaphorically to rapid movement or cutting.

Derived headwords

الشَّخْبnoun
  1. 1.
    milk that flowsboth

    Milk that flows from the udder when it is milked.

  2. 2.
    bloodclassical

    Blood.

  3. 3.
    flowingboth

    The act of flowing or gushing.

  4. 4.
    sound of milkclassical

    The sound of milk when being milked.

  5. 5.
    what flowsboth

    Anything that flows or streams.

شَخَبَverb
  1. 1.
    to milkboth

    To milk an animal.

  2. 2.
    to flowboth

    To flow or stream, especially of liquids like milk or blood.

  3. 3.
    to cutboth

    To cut, causing blood to flow.

  4. 4.
    to run quicklyclassical

    To run swiftly.

شَخْبname
  1. 1.
    fortress in Yemenclassical

    A fortress located in Yemen, near the pass of Sayd.

الشَّخَابnoun
  1. 1.
    milked milkclassical

    Milk that has been milked, a term used in Yemen.

الشَّحْبَةnoun
  1. 1.
    a gush of milkclassical

    A spurt or gush of milk.

شَخْبverb
  1. 1.
    to flow (milk)both

    Milk flowed.

نَصَرَverb
  1. 1.
    to flow (milk)both

    Milk flowed.

انْشَخَبَverb
  1. 1.
    to flow outboth

    To flow out or gush forth, especially of blood.

  2. 2.
    to burst forthboth

    To burst forth, as in the case of blood from a wound.

انْشِخَابnoun
  1. 1.
    gushing forthboth

    The act of gushing forth or flowing out.

الأَشْخُوبnoun
  1. 1.
    sound of milkclassical

    The sound made by milk flowing from the udder.

شَخِيبadjective
  1. 1.
    cut and flowingclassical

    Describing a severed vein or artery from which blood is flowing.

انْفَجَرَverb
  1. 1.
    to burst forthboth

    To burst forth or gush, used for blood.

مِشْقَصnoun
  1. 1.
    arrowheadclassical

    A type of arrowhead, used here in the context of causing bleeding.

شَخْبَانًاnoun
  1. 1.
    swift runningclassical

    Running swiftly or at a fast pace.

الشِّنْخُوبnoun
  1. 1.
    shoulder ridgeclassical

    The ridge of the shoulder.

الشِّنْخُوبَةnoun
  1. 1.
    mountain peakboth

    The summit or peak of a mountain.

الشِّنْخَابnoun
  1. 1.
    mountain peaksboth

    The plural of mountain peaks.

شَخَبَتverb
  1. 1.
    she milkedboth

    She milked (an animal).

شَخْبnoun
  1. 1.
    what comes outclassical

    What emerges from the udder with each squeeze during milking.

Parallel reading

ما خر من الضرع من اللبن إذا احتلت
What flows from the udder of milk when it is milked.
الشخب بالفتح المصدر وهو الدم
Al-shakhb (with fatha) is the masdar, and it is blood.
شخب بالتحريك حصن باليمن على نقيل صيد
Shakhb (with haraka) is a fortress in Yemen, on the pass of Sayd.
الشخاب ككتاب اللبن إذا احتلب يمانية
Al-shakhāb (like kitāb) is milk when it is milked, a Yemeni term.
الشحبة بالضم الدفعة منه
Al-shahba (with damma) is a spurt of it (milk).
تقول: شخبت اللقح وشخبت اللبن: حلبته
You say: Shakhbtu al-laqḥa wa shakhbtu al-labana: I milked it (the animal) and milked the milk.
الشخب بالضم من اللبن: ما امتد منه حين يحلب من الضرع إلى الإناء متصلا بين الإناء والطي
Al-shakhb (with damma) of milk is what extends from it when milked, from the udder to the container, connected between the container and the teats.
شخب اللبن شخبا كمَنَعَ ونَصَرَ يشخبه ويشخبه
Shakhaba al-labana shakhban (like mana'a and naṣara) yashkhubuhu wa yashkhubuhu.
وقيل الشخب: صوت اللبن عند الحلب
And it is said that al-shakhb is the sound of milk during milking.
وفي المثل: شخب في الإناء وشخب في الأرض
And in the proverb: He milked into the container and milked onto the ground.
أي يصيب مرة ويخطىء أخرى
Meaning he succeeds one time and fails another.
وكل ما سال فقد شخب
And everything that flows has shakhaba.
يشخب فيه ميزابان من الجنة
Two streams from Paradise will gush into it.
ومن المجاز: أوداجه تشخب دما كأنها تحلبه
And metaphorically: His jugular veins gush blood as if they are being milked.
وشخب أوداجه دما: قطعها فسالت
And he shakhaba his jugular veins with blood: he cut them, and they flowed.
والأشخوب: صوت درته أي اللبن
And al-ashkhūb is the sound of its flow, meaning milk.
ويقال: إنها لأشخوب الأحاليل
And it is said: Indeed, she is one whose udders have a strong flow of milk.
وودج شخيب: قطع فانشخب دمه
And a vein was shakhīb: it was cut, and its blood flowed out.
جاد القلال له بذات صبابة حمراء مثل شخيب الأوداج
The pitchers poured for him with a passionate red, like the flowing of the jugular veins.
وانشخب عرقه دما: سال وانفجر
And his sweat flowed with blood: it streamed and burst forth.
وعروقه تنشخب دما أي تنفجر
And his veins are yanshkubūna blood, meaning they burst forth.
يبعث الشهيد يوم القيامة وجرحه يشخب دما
The martyr will be resurrected on the Day of Resurrection, and his wound will be gushing blood.
الشخب: السيلان
Al-shakhb: The flowing.
وأصل الشخب: ما خرج من تحت يد الحالب عند كل غمزة وعصرة لضرع الشاة
And the origin of al-shakhb is what comes out from under the milker's hand with each squeeze and pressure of the ewe's udder.
فأخذ مشاقص فقطع براجمه فشخبت يداه حتى مات
So he took arrowheads and cut his wrists, and his hands flowed until he died.
مر يشخب في الأرض شخبانا أي جرى جريا سريعا
He passed by running shakhbānan on the ground, meaning running swiftly.
والشنخوب: فرع الكاهل
And al-shinkhūb: the ridge of the shoulder.
والشنخوبة والشنخوب والشنخاب: رأس الجبل وأعلاه، النون زائدة
And al-shinkhūba, al-shinkhūb, and al-shinkhāb: the head of the mountain and its summit, the 'n' is extra.
شناخيب الجبال: رءوسها
Shanākhīb al-jibāl: their peaks.
ذوات الشناخيب الصم
Those with the deaf peaks (referring to high, silent mountain peaks).