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تهر

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes low-lying, soft, or unstable ground, particularly sand dunes. It also extends to concepts of being lost, arrogant, or overwhelmed, metaphorically linked to the instability of the ground or the overwhelming nature of the sea.

Derived headwords

التيهورnoun
  1. 1.
    low-lying landboth

    That which is low and settled in the earth.

  2. 2.
    area between valley and mountainclassical

    The area between the upper edge of a valley and the mountain, and their lower parts.

  3. 3.
    lost and arrogant manboth

    A man who is lost in himself and arrogant.

  4. 4.
    high sea waveclassical

    A high, rising wave of the sea.

  5. 5.
    unstable sandboth

    That which is low-lying from the sand.

  6. 6.
    sand dune with no cliffclassical

    Sand that has no cliff or overhang.

  7. 7.
    collapsing sandclassical

    Sand that collapses and does not hold together.

  8. 8.
    overhanging sand duneclassical

    A sand dune that is high or prominent.

تيهوراnoun
  1. 1.
    high sea waveclassical

    A high, rising wave of the sea, used as a plural for التيهور.

تياهرnoun
  1. 1.
    sand dunesclassical

    Plural of التيهور, referring to sand dunes.

تياهرnoun
  1. 1.
    sand dunesclassical

    Plural of التيهور, referring to sand dunes.

التوهريnoun
  1. 1.
    long hump of a camel's backclassical

    A long hump on a camel's back.

التاهورnoun
  1. 1.
    cloudclassical

    A cloud, used metaphorically.

Parallel reading

ما اطمأن من الأرض
What is low-lying from the earth.
هو فيعول من الوهر، قلبت الواو تاء، وأصله ويهور، مثل التيقور، وأصله ويقور.
It is fi'awl from wahar, with the waw changed to ta, and its origin is wayhur, like tayqur, whose origin is wayqur.
إلى أراطى ونقا تيهور
To sandy tracts and low-lying sand dunes.
هو ما بين أعلى شفير الوادي والجبل، وأسفلهما
It is what is between the upper edge of the valley and the mountain, and their lower parts.
وطلعت من شمراخة تيهورة شماء مشرفة كرأس الأصلع
And I emerged from a lofty, high, and prominent sand dune, like the head of a bald man.
الرجل التائه المتكبر
The lost and arrogant man.
ويقال للرجل إذا كان ذاهبا بنفسه به تيه: تيه: تيهور، أي تائه.
And it is said of a man, if he is conceited and arrogant: he is lost, lost, lost, meaning lost.
موج البحر المرتفع
The high wave of the sea.
كالبحر يقذف بالتيهور تيهورا
Like the sea that throws high waves.
التيهور: ما اطمأن من الرمل.
The tayhur: what is low-lying from the sand.
من الرمل: ماله جرف. ج تياهير وتياهر
From the sand: it has no cliff. Plural: tayahir and tayahar.
كيف اهتدت ودونها الجزائر وعقص من عالج تياهر
How did she find her way, while between her and it are islands, and winding sand dunes from Al-Alij.
هو الرمل المشرف.
It is the prominent sand dune.
هو ما ينهار ولا يتماسك من الرمله.
It is what collapses and does not hold together from the sand.
السنام الطويل
The long hump of a camel's back.
فأرسلت الغلام ولم ألبث إلى خير البوارك توهريا
So I sent the boy, and I did not delay until the best of the she-camels with long humps.
التاهور: السحاب
The tahur: the cloud.