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هندب

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This entry discusses the plant chicory (hindib), its various names, and its medicinal properties. It also touches upon the etymological debate regarding the root's origin and mentions a woman named Hindaba.

Derived headwords

الهندبnoun
  1. 1.
    chicoryboth

    A well-known herbaceous plant from the category of 'free vegetables', referring to wild or cultivated plants.

الهندباnoun
  1. 1.
    chicoryboth

    Another name for the plant chicory, often pronounced with an open 'dal'.

الهندباءnoun
  1. 1.
    chicoryboth

    A further variant name for the plant chicory, often pronounced with a kasra on the 'ha' and a lengthened final vowel.

هندباءةnoun
  1. 1.
    a single chicory plantclassical

    The singular form of the plant chicory, as stated by Abu Hanifa.

هندابةname
  1. 1.
    Hindabaclassical

    The name of a dark-skinned woman, who was the mother of the poet Abu Hindaba al-Kindi.

Parallel reading

أكثر أهل البادية، يقولون: هندب، (وتمد)، وكل صحيح.
Most of the desert dwellers say: hindib, (and extend it), and all are correct.
هي الهندبا، مفتوح الدال مقصور، كل ذالك: (بقلة م)، أي: معروفة من أحرار البقول.
It is the hindiba, with an open dal and a short final vowel; all of that refers to: a plant, meaning: a known one from the free vegetables.
هاذه هندباء، وباقلاء، فأنثوا ومدوا، وهاذه كشوثاء، مؤنثة.
This is hindabaa', and baqliyaa', so they feminized and lengthened them, and this is kashuthaa', feminine.
واحد الهندباء هندباءة.
The singular of hindabaa' is hindabaa'ah.
معتدلة، نافعة للمعدة والكبد والطحال أكلا، وللسعة العقرب ضمادا بأصولها، وطابخها أكثر خطأ من غاسلها.
Moderate, beneficial for the stomach, liver, and spleen when eaten, and for scorpion stings as a poultice with its roots; its cooked form is more erroneous than its washed form.
ومن لم يعلمها كان الضرر أكثر من النفع.
And whoever does not know it, the harm will be greater than the benefit.
الواحدة هندباة.
The single one is hindabaah.
وهندابة، بالكسر: اسم امرأة سوداء، وهي أم أبي هندابة الكندي الشاعر الفارس، واسمه زياد بن حارثة بن عوف بن قتيرة.
And Hindaba, with a kasra: the name of a dark-skinned woman, and she is the mother of Abu Hindaba al-Kindi, the Persian poet, and his name is Ziyad bin Haritha bin Auf bin Qutayrah.