دلخ

Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes the state of being fat, plump, or well-fed, particularly for animals like camels. It can also extend to describe a fertile land or a woman with a large posterior. Additionally, it signifies abundance in a date palm and, in a less common usage, an overflowing container.

Derived headwords

الدَّلَخnoun

1.
fatnessboth
The state of being fat or plump.

دلخَverb

1.
to be fatboth
To become fat or plump.

دلخadjective

1.
fatboth
Describing someone or something as fat or plump.

دُلُوخadjective

1.
fatboth
Describing someone or something as fat or plump.

إبلٌ دُلَخnoun

1.
fat camelsboth
Camels that are fat and well-fed.

دَوالِخnoun

1.
fat camelsboth
Camels that are fat and well-fed.

دُلُخnoun

1.
fat camelsboth
Camels that are fat and well-fed.

رجلٌ دالِخadjective

1.
fertileboth
Describing a man as prosperous or a land as fertile.

دالِخونadjective

1.
prosperousboth
Plural form describing men as prosperous or lands as fertile.

امرأةٌ دَلِخَةadjective

1.
large-hippedboth
Describing a woman as having a large or wide posterior.

دَلاّخadjective

1.
large-hippedboth
Describing a woman as having a large or wide posterior.

الدَّلوخnoun

1.
date palmboth
A date palm tree that bears abundant fruit.

دلخَ الإناءَverb

1.
to overflowclassical
For a container to be full to the point of overflowing.

Parallel reading

الدلخ، محركة: السمن

Ad-dalakh, with harakah: fatness.

دلخ كفرح يدلخ

Dalakha ka-faruha yadlakhu.

فهو دلخ ككتف، ودلوخ كصبور، أي سمين

So he is dalikh (like katif) and dulukh (like sabur), meaning fat.

دلخت الإبل تدلخ دلخا ودلخا

The camels became fat, becoming fat (tadlakhu) dalakhan and dalakhan.

إبل دلخ بضم فتشديد، ودوالخ ودلخ، بضم فسكون سمنت

Camels are dulakh (with damma and shadda), and dawalikh, and dulukh (with damma and sukun), meaning fat.

أنشد ابن الأعرابي: ألم تريا عشار أبي حميد يعودها التذيل بالرحال وكانت عنده دلخا سمانا فأضخت ضمرا مثل السعالي

Ibn al-A'rabi recited: Did you not see Abu Humayd's pregnant camels being tended with saddles? And they were with him fat and plump, then they became lean like demons.

ورجل دالخ: مخصب، وهم دالخون: مخصبون

And a man is dalikh: prosperous, and they are dalikhun: prosperous.

امرأة دلخة ودلاخ، كهمزة وغراب، أي عجزاء

A woman is dalikhah and dallakh (like humazah and ghurab), meaning large-hipped.

وأنشد: أسقى ديار جلد بلاخ من كل هعيفاء الحشى دلاخ

And he recited: May it water the dwellings of Jald without a dallakh, from every one with a capacious belly, a dallakh.

ويقال: إن دلاخ للواحدة والجميع

And it is said: dallakh refers to the singular and the plural.

والدلوخ، كصبور: النخلة الكثيرة الحمل

And ad-dulukh, like sabur: the date palm tree that bears abundant fruit.

دلخ الأناء دلخا، إذا امتلأ حتى يفيض

The container overflowed (dalikha) dalakhan, when it became full until it spilled over.