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شنغب

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes things that are long, slender, and sometimes weak or incapable. It extends to terms for tall, lanky people, thin ropes or branches, and even geological features like mountain peaks or long, thin earth veins.

Derived headwords

شِنْغَبnoun
  1. 1.
    tall animalclassical

    A tall specimen of any animal.

شِنْغَابnoun
  1. 1.
    mountain peakclassical

    The peak or summit of a mountain.

  2. 2.
    weaklingclassical

    A weak, incapable, or effeminate man.

شِنْعَابnoun
  1. 1.
    tall, weak manclassical

    A tall, weak, and incapable man.

  2. 2.
    mountain peakclassical

    The peak or summit of a mountain.

  3. 3.
    slender rope/branchclassical

    A long, slender, and thin rope or branch.

شِنْغُوبnoun
  1. 1.
    tender, moist branchclassical

    A tender, moist, and soft branch.

  2. 2.
    long, thin earth veinclassical

    A long, thin vein or strip of earth.

شِنْعَافnoun
  1. 1.
    tall, weak manclassical

    A tall, weak, and incapable man, similar to الشنعاب.

Parallel reading

وقال ابن دريد: هو اسم رجل.
And Ibn Duraid said: It is the name of a man.
والشنعاب بالكسر: الرجل الطويل العاجز كالشنعاف بالفاء في آخره.
And al-shin'āb (with kasra) is the tall, incapable man, like al-shin'āf with a fā' at its end.
والشنعاب أيضا: رأس الجبل كالشنغاب بالمعجمة وهو من الرجال: العاجز الرخو.
And al-shin'āb is also: the peak of the mountain, like al-shinghāb (with jīm), and it refers to a man who is weak and soft.
وهو أيضا الطويل الدقيق من الأرشية وهي الحبال والأغصان.
And it is also the long, slender one of the ropes (al-arshiya) which are the ropes, and branches.
ورأيت في البادية رجلا يسمى شنغوبا، فسألت غلاما من بني كلايب عن معنى اسمه فقال: الشنغوب: الغصن الناعم الرطب ونحو ذلك.
And I saw in the desert a man named Shinghub, so I asked a boy from Banu Kulayb about the meaning of his name, and he said: Al-shinghub: the tender, moist branch and the like.
أو الشنغب بالضم: الطويل من جميع الحيوان قاله ابن الأعرابي.
Or al-shanghab (with damma): the tall one of all animals, said Ibn al-A'rābī.
والشنغوب: عرق طويل من الأرض دقيق.
And al-shinghub: a long, thin vein of earth.