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قلعث

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root describes a specific manner of walking, characterized by difficulty and a sense of being stuck or struggling to move forward, as if pulling oneself out of mud.

Derived headwords

تَقَلَّعَثَverb
  1. 1.
    to struggle to walkclassical

    To walk with difficulty, as if one is being pulled or is stuck, like emerging from thick mud.

تَقَعْثَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to struggle to walkclassical

    To walk with difficulty, as if one is being pulled or is stuck, like emerging from thick mud. This is a variant form of تقلعث.

Parallel reading

تَقَلَّعَثَ الرجل (في مشيه)
The man struggled in his walking.
تقلعث، وتقعثل، كلاهما، إذا (مر كأنه يتقلع من وحل)
Both taqalla'atha and taqa'athala mean when one walks as if being pulled out of mud.