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دلح

Root entry · 18 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes the act of walking with a heavy burden, causing constricted or slow steps. It extends to describe things that are heavy or laden, such as camels, clouds, or even horses, and also refers to the act of carrying something together.

Derived headwords

دَلَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to walk heavilyboth

    A man walks with his load, with constricted steps, not expanding them due to its weight. This also applies to a camel when it passes by burdened.

دَلَحًاnoun
  1. 1.
    heavy walkingclassical

    The act of walking with constricted steps due to the weight of a burden.

الدَّالِحُadjective
  1. 1.
    burdened camelclassical

    A camel that is heavy in its walk due to the weight of its load.

دَلُوحٌadjective
  1. 1.
    heavy with loadclassical

    A she-camel burdened with a load or laden with fat.

  2. 2.
    water-laden cloudclassical

    A cloud that is heavy with water.

دَلَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to move heavilyclassical

    A cloud moves in its course due to its abundance of water.

دَلَحَانًاnoun
  1. 1.
    heavy movementclassical

    The act of moving heavily, particularly of a cloud laden with water.

دَلُوحٌadjective
  1. 1.
    abundant waterclassical

    A cloud that is abundant with water.

دَالِحَةٌadjective
  1. 1.
    heavy with waterclassical

    A cloud laden with much water.

دُلُحٌnoun
  1. 1.
    heavy cloudsclassical

    Plural of 'dāliḥ', referring to clouds heavy with water.

دَالِحٌadjective
  1. 1.
    heavy cloudsclassical

    Clouds heavy with water.

دَوَالِحٌnoun
  1. 1.
    heavy cloudsclassical

    Plural of 'dāliḥ', referring to clouds heavy with water.

تَدَالَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to carry togetherboth

    Two men carry a load between them. They insert a stick into the loops of a saddlebag and hold the ends of the stick to carry it.

تَدَالُحًاnoun
  1. 1.
    mutual carryingclassical

    The act of carrying a load together between two people.

دُوحلِحٌname
  1. 1.
    woman's nameclassical

    A name for a woman.

دَلِحٌadjective
  1. 1.
    sweaty horseclassical

    A horse that sweats profusely. It is said of a horse that it walks proudly with its rider without tiring him.

الدَّلَّاحُnoun
  1. 1.
    watery milkclassical

    Milk that has a lot of water, to the point where its watery nature is apparent.

دَلَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to draw waterclassical

    Women drawing water in waterskins on their backs during a campaign, meaning they were fetching water and giving it to the men. This is from the act of walking heavily with a burden.

دَلَحَverb
  1. 1.
    to waterclassical

    To water a group of people or for them. It refers to a thin liquid, like the dregs from a waterskin, thinner than 'samār'.

Parallel reading

دَلَحَ الرجلُ بحملهِ منقبضَ الخطوِ غيرَ منبسطه لثقله عليه
The man walked with his load, with constricted steps, not expanding them due to its weight upon him.
وكذلك البعيرُ إذا مرَّ به مثقلاً
And likewise the camel when it passes by burdened.
الدالحُ البعيرُ إذا دلحَ، وهو تثاقله في مشيه من ثقل الحمل
The 'dāliḥ' is a camel when it walks heavily, which is its slowness in walking due to the weight of the load.
ناقةٌ دلوحٌ: مثقلةٌ حملاً أو موقرةٌ شحماً
A 'daluḥ' she-camel: burdened with a load or laden with fat.
السحابةُ تدلحُ في مسيرها من كثرة مائها
The cloud moves heavily in its course due to its abundance of water.
سحابةٌ دلوحٌ: كثيرةُ الماءِ
A 'daluḥ' cloud: abundant with water.
وسحابةٌ دالحةٌ: مثقلةٌ بالماءِ كثيرته
And a 'dāliḥah' cloud: laden with much water.
وسحابٌ دالحٌ، جُ دُلُحٌ، كَرُكَّعٍ، ودوالحُ
And 'dāliḥ' clouds, plural 'duluh', like 'rukkāʿ', and 'dawāliḥ'.
منهم كالسحابِ الدَّلَحِ
Some of them are like the 'daliḥ' clouds.
وتَدَالَحَ الرجلانِ الحملَ بينهما
And the two men carried the load between them.
وتَدَالَحا العِكَمَ: إذا أدخلا عوداً في عُرَى الجَوالِقِ وأخذا بطرفي العودِ فحملاه
And they carried the saddlebag together: if they inserted a stick into the loops of the saddlebag and held the ends of the stick to carry it.
اشْتَرَيَا لَحْماً فَتَدَالَحَاهُ بينهما على عودٍ
They bought meat and carried it between them on a stick.
الدَّلِحُ: الفرسُ الكثيرُ العَرَقِ
The 'daliḥ': the horse that sweats profusely.
فرسٌ دَلِحٌ: يختالُ بفارسهِ ولا يتعبهُ
A 'daliḥ' horse: it walks proudly with its rider and does not tire him.
كن النساءُ يَدْلَحْنَ بالقِرَبِ على ظُهُورِهِنَّ في الغَزْوِ
The women used to carry waterskins on their backs during campaigns.
الدَّلَّاحُ من اللبنِ: الذي يكثرُ ماؤهُ حتى تَتَبَيَّنَ شُبْهَتُهُ
The 'dallāḥ' of milk: that which has much water, until its watery nature is apparent.
ودَلَحْتُ القومَ ودَلَحْتُ لهم، وهو نحوٌ من غَسَّالةِ السِّقَاءِ في الرِّقَّةِ أَرَقُّ من السَّمَارِ
And I watered the people and watered for them, and it is similar to the dregs of a waterskin in thinness, thinner than 'samār'.