قهب

Root entry · 14 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes colors, particularly shades of white, gray, and mixed hues. It also extends to meanings related to size, age, and specific objects like mountains, animals, and parts of arrows.

Derived headwords

القَهَبnoun

1.
Whiteboth
A color that is white, sometimes with a slight cloudiness or impurity.
2.
Grayish-blackclassical
A dusty color tending towards black.
3.
Great mountainclassical
A large or tall mountain.
4.
Camelclassical
A large camel, or one past its prime.
5.
Elderly personclassical
An old man, referring to his age and lineage.

القَهْبَةnoun

1.
Grayish-black colorclassical
A dusty color tending towards black.

الأَقْهَبadjective

1.
White mixed with rednessclassical
Describing something whose whiteness is mixed with a reddish hue.
2.
Reddish-grayclassical
Having a color that leans towards gray with a hint of redness.
3.
Cloudy whiteclassical
White that is somewhat impure or dull.
4.
Elephantclassical
An elephant, named for its color and size.
5.
Buffaloclassical
A buffalo, named for its color and size.

قُهْبverb

1.
To become whiteclassical
To turn white, or to acquire a white or grayish color.

قُهْبًاnoun

1.
Whitenessclassical
The state or quality of being white or grayish.

قُهْبَةnoun

1.
Whitenessclassical
A state of being white or grayish.

قَهْبَاءadjective

1.
Whiteclassical
Feminine form of white or grayish.

القِهَابnoun

1.
Whiteclassical
A white color, especially referring to the hide or appearance.
2.
Black mountains with rednessclassical
Black mountains that have a reddish hue mixed in.

القَهَابِيnoun

1.
Whiteclassical
A white color, particularly referring to the hide or appearance.

القُهْبِيnoun

1.
Male partridgeclassical
The male of the partridge bird.

القُهَيْبِيَةnoun

1.
Birdclassical
A type of bird found in Tihamah, with white and green markings, possibly a type of partridge.

القُهْبُوبَاةnoun

1.
Arrowheadclassical
A type of arrowhead with three branches or two iron points.
2.
Small arrowclassical
A small, possibly conical arrow.

القُهْبُوبَةnoun

1.
Arrowheadclassical
A type of arrowhead, possibly with three branches or two iron points.

أَقْهَبَ عَنِ الطَّعَامِverb

1.
To abstain from foodclassical
To refrain from eating or lose appetite for food.

Parallel reading

القهب: الأبيض علته كدرة

Al-qahab: white, its impurity is dullness.

وقيل: الأبيض، وخص بعضهم به الأبيض من أولاد المعز والبقر

And it was said: white, and some specified it for the white among the young of goats and cattle.

يقال: إنه لقهب الإهاب، وقهابه، وقهابيه

It is said: he is white of hide, and his qahabuhu, and his qahabiyuhu.

ولونه القهبة، بالضم

And its color is al-qahbah, with dammah.

قال الأصمعي: هو غبرة إلى سواد

Al-Asma'i said: it is a dustiness tending towards blackness.

والأقهب: الذي يخلط بياضه حمرة

And al-aqhab: he whose whiteness is mixed with redness.

وقيل: الأقهب: الذي فيه حمرة إلى غبرة

And it was said: al-aqhab: he who has redness tending towards dustiness.

كغيث العشي الأقهب المتودق

Like the rain of the evening, the aqhab, the abundant.

وقد قهب، كفرح قهبا، وهي قهبة، كفرحة، لا غير

And he became qahiba, like fariha, qahaban, and she is qahibah, like farhah, nothing else.

والقهب: الجبل العظيم

And al-qahab: the great mountain.

وقيل: القهاب: جبال سود، يخالطها حمرة

And it was said: al-qahab: black mountains, mixed with redness.

والقهب: الجمل العظيم

And al-qahab: the great camel.

والقهب من الإبل بعد البازل

And al-qahab among camels is after the bazil (mature camel).

والقهب: المسن

And al-qahab: the elderly.

إن تميما كان قهبا من عاد أرأس مذكارا كثير الأولاد

If Tamim was an old man from Ad, a chief, a breeder, with many offspring.

يقال للشيخ إذا أسن: قحر، وقهب، وقحب

It is said to an old man when he ages: qahura, and qahiba, and qahaba.

والأقهبان: الفيل والجاموس

And al-aqhaban: the elephant and the buffalo.

كل واحد منهما أقهب، للونه

Each of them is aqhab, due to its color.

ليث يدق الأسد الهموسا والأقهبين الفيل والجاموسا

A lion that crushes the silent lions, and the two aqhaban, the elephant and the buffalo.

والقهاب، والقهابي، بضمهما: الأبيض

And al-qahab, and al-qahabi, with dammah on both: the white.

يقال: إنه لقهب الإهاب، وإنه لقهاب، وقهابي

It is said: he is white of hide, and he is qahab, and qahabi.

والقهبي، بالفتح: اليعقوب

And al-qahbi, with fatha: the male partridge.

وهو الذكر من الحجل، قاله الليث

And it is the male of the partridge, Al-Layth said.

إلا القهاد مع القهبي والحذف

Except for al-qahad with al-qahbi and al-hadhf.

والقهبية، بضم القاف وسكون الهاء وكسر الموحدة وتشديد التحتية: طائر

And al-qahbiyah, with dammah on the qaf, sukun on the ha, kasrah on the ba, and shaddah on the ya: a bird.

يكون بتهامة، فيه بياض وخضرة، وهو نوع من الحجل

It is found in Tihamah, it has whiteness and greenness, and it is a type of partridge.

والقهوبة، والقهوباة، مثال ركوبة وركوباة: نصل من نصال السهام

And al-quhubah, and al-quhubah, like rukubbah and rukubbah: an arrowhead from the arrowheads.

له شعب ثلاث

It has three branches.

وربما كانت ذات حديدتين، تنضمان أحيانا، وتنفرجان أخرى

And sometimes it had two iron points, joining at times, and separating at others.

حكى أبو عبيدة: القهوباة، أي بفتح الهاء وبالهاء

Abu Ubaidah narrated: al-quhubah, meaning with fatha on the ha and with the ha.

هو العريض من النصال

It is the wide one among the arrowheads.

أو سهم صغير مقرطس

Or a small, conical arrow.

والجمع قهوبات

And the plural is quhubat.

ليس في الكلام فعولى غيرها

There is no word in speech of the pattern 'fa'u'la' other than it.

وهو بفتح الفاء والعين وآخره ياء تأنيث

And it is with fatha on the fa and the 'ayn, and its end is a feminine ya.

وقد يمكن أن يأتي مع الهاء ما لولا هي لما أتى، نحو: ترقوة وحذرية

And it is possible that what does not come without the 'ha' comes with it, like: tarquwah and hadhariyyah.

وأقهب عن الطعام: أمسك، ولم يشته

And aqhaba from food: he abstained, and did not desire it.

نقله الصاغاني

Al-Sagani narrated it.