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وعث

Root entry · 15 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes difficult, soft, or yielding terrain, particularly sand or loose earth where feet or hooves sink. It extends metaphorically to hardship, difficulty, brokenness, and even fatness.

Derived headwords

الْوَعْثnoun
  1. 1.
    Soft, yielding groundboth

    A place that is easy and soft, where feet sink in.

  2. 2.
    Difficult terrainboth

    A difficult road or path that is hard to traverse.

  3. 3.
    Broken boneclassical

    A broken bone that is set or bound.

  4. 4.
    Emaciationclassical

    Thinness or weakness.

وَعِثadjective
  1. 1.
    Soft and yieldingboth

    Describing ground that is soft and where one's feet sink.

  2. 2.
    Difficult to traverseboth

    Describing a path that is hard to walk on.

وَعْثnoun
  1. 1.
    Softness of earthclassical

    The softness and looseness of the earth where animal legs sink.

وَعُوثnoun
  1. 1.
    Difficult terrainboth

    A place of difficult terrain where walking is hard.

  2. 2.
    Hardship and evilclassical

    Difficulty, hardship, or evil.

وَعْثَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    Soft, deep sandclassical

    Sand where hooves and shoes sink, or fine sand and small pebbles.

  2. 2.
    Hardship of travelboth

    The difficulty and hardship of a journey.

  3. 3.
    Grave sinclassical

    A serious sin or transgression.

مَوْعِثnoun
  1. 1.
    Soft groundclassical

    Soft ground where animal legs sink.

  2. 2.
    Difficult pathclassical

    A difficult path.

مَوْعُوثadjective
  1. 1.
    Lacking in lineageclassical

    A man who is deficient in lineage or nobility.

أَوْعَثَverb
  1. 1.
    To fall into soft groundclassical

    To fall into soft, yielding ground.

  2. 2.
    To squander wealthclassical

    To spend money extravagantly or wastefully.

  3. 3.
    To mixclassical

    To mix or confuse matters.

إِيعَاثnoun
  1. 1.
    Mixingclassical

    The act of mixing or confusing.

وَعَثَverb
  1. 1.
    To be difficult to traverseboth

    Describing a path that became difficult to walk on.

وَعَاثَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Difficulty of passageclassical

    The difficulty of a path, making it hard to traverse.

وَعِثَةadjective
  1. 1.
    Fat and fleshyclassical

    Describing a woman who is fat and fleshy, as if fingers sink into her.

تَوْعِيثnoun
  1. 1.
    Detention and diversionclassical

    The act of detaining someone or diverting them from something.

أَوْعَثadjective
  1. 1.
    Difficult to traverseclassical

    Describing a path that is difficult to traverse.

الْأَوْعَاثnoun
  1. 1.
    Plump buttocksclassical

    A plural form possibly referring to plump or yielding buttocks.

Parallel reading

الْوَعْث: المكان السهل الكثير الدهس تغيب فيه الأقدام
Al-wa'th: The easy, yielding place where feet sink.
الْوَعْث من الرمل: ما غابت فيه الأرجل والخفاف.
Al-wa'th of sand: that in which legs and sandals sink.
طريق وعث في طريق وعوث.
A difficult path on a difficult road.
مثل الرزق كمثل حائط له باب، فما حول الباب سهولة، وما حول الحائط وعث ووعر
The provision is like a wall with a door; what is around the door is easy, and what is around the wall is difficult and rugged.
على رأس قوز وعث
On top of a soft dune.
كل لين سهل.
Everything soft and easy.
أرض وعثة ووعثة.
Soft and yielding land.
وعث الطريق وعثا ووعثا، ووعث وعوثة، كلاهما لان فصار كالوعث.
The path became difficult, both in its softness and its yielding nature, becoming like soft ground.
أوعثوا، كأسهلوا.
They fell into soft ground, like they entered easy terrain.
أوعث: وقع في الوعث
To fall into soft ground.
أوعث: أسرف في المال
To squander wealth.
وعثته عن كذا، وعوثته، أي صرفته.
You deterred him from something, you diverted him, meaning you turned him away.
اللهم إنا نعوذ بك من وعثاء السفر وكآبة المنقلب
O Allah, we seek refuge in You from the hardship of travel and the sorrow of returning.
ركب الوعثاء، أي أذنب
He committed a grave sin, meaning he transgressed.
إن قطيعة الرحم مأثم شديد.
Indeed, cutting off kinship is a severe sin.
امرأة وعثة أي سمينة كثيرة اللحم
A woman who is 'wa'thah', meaning fat and fleshy.
والوعثاء كالوعث.
And the hardship is like the soft ground.
الوعوث: الشدة والشر
Al-wu'uth: hardship and evil.
أوعث فلان إيعاثا، إذا خلط.
So-and-so mixed things up, meaning he confused them.
الوعث: فساد الأمر واختلاطه
Al-wa'th: the corruption and confusion of a matter.
طريق أوعث، إذا تعسر سلوكه
A difficult path, meaning its traversal is arduous.